(11-10-2020 01:50 PM)Cataclysmo Wrote: The SEC isn't as great as you are told. Bama is elite. Florida and A&M are really good. And Georgia is good. The rest of the conference is really, really mediocre. And those top 4 teams are feasting on the bottom half of the conference all the way to their top 10 rankings. If you swapped us with either Florida or A&M I'd argue we could just as easily finish with the same results. Not saying we're any better than them, but that their respective schedule really isn't as impressive as you're led to believe.
What are you basing that on?
In past years, the SEC has been pretty solid even after the top teams.
In 2017, the SEC finished with 5 ranked teams. Out of Conference records for the worst teams in the conference:
last place Tennessee was 4-0, beating 8-5 USM and 5-6 Georgia Tech
2nd to last place Vanderbilt was 4-0, beating 8-5 Kansas State, 7-6 MTSU, and 6-7 WKU
2nd to last place Arkansas was 3-1, with the only loss to #9 TCU. They beat 7-6 NMSU.
4th to last Florida was 1-2, with losses to 8-5 Michigan and 7-6 Florida State. Their win was over 8-5 UAB.
In 2018, the SEC finished with 6 ranked teams. Out of Conference records for the worst teams in the conference:
Last place Arkansas was bad, but still beat Tulsa 23-0
2nd to last place Mississippi went 4-0, beating 5-7 Texas Tech
3rd to last place Tennessee went 3-1, losing to ranked WVU
4th to last place Vanderbilt went 3-1, losing to #5 Notre Dame and beating 8-5 Nevada and 8-6 MTSU.
5th to last place Auburn went 5-0, beating #13 Washington and beating Purdue in the bowl game.