IMO: Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Georgia and Florida are all strong teams
FACT: the SEC has a better OOC win% than the ACC
BUT DID YOU KNOW... it's also a FACT that the SEC's win% is no better than the ACC's in terms of home games, is worse than the ACC's in terms of road games, and is only better in the neutral-site (made-for-TV) games?
https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2019/...11219.html
Consider the match-ups in those games:
Florida-vs-Miami (played in Orlando, came down to the last drive IIRC)
Alabama-vs-Duke (played in Atlanta)
Auburn-vs-Oregon (but played about 1,000 miles closer to Auburn)
LSU-vs-Texas (this is the one they hang their hat on)
S.Carolina-vs-N.Carolina (which the ACC team won in an upset)
In no case was the SEC team an underdog going into those neutral site games (I think Auburn/Oregon and LSU/Texas lines were pretty close, however).
CONCLUSION: the illusion of dominance is created through scheduling.
Thoughts?