The SEC's edge over the Big 10 is in it's depth of good teams and the fact that they have more NFL-type athletes. The top of the conferences are usually pretty comparable, but you rarely get an easy conference game in the SEC which makes it a little tougher over the course of the season.

 

Both conferences are good.........just different.

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LSU demolished VT.

 

Just for reference, on the day LSU was beating VT by 41, tOSU was beating mighty Akron by 18.

 

Keep coming up with excuses though.

 

If LSU and VT played right now, there is noooooo way LSU would beat them by that much.

 

I'm not making excuses...

If LSU and VT played right now, there is noooooo way LSU would beat them by that much.

 

I'm not making excuses...

 

If tOSU and Akron played right now, there is nooooo way tOSU would beat them by that much.

 

You are making excuses. The SEC stepped up and played big OOC games, and you're trying to make excuses to diminish that fact.

 

I can say that if UF played UM anytime during the regular season, UF would have killed UM. Do you like that argument?

 

Bottom line is LSU KILLED VT when they played. End of story.

I am a big SEC football guy, and I think the SEC is the best football confrence in the country hands down. I don't like the Big X because they don't play a confrence championship and they seem to play a much slower style of football. But anyone who thinks that OSU and Michigan couldn't come into the SEC and compete for the SEC crown every year is kidding themselves. If you let either team play Flordia, LSU, UT, Alabama, Georgia and Auburn at alternating sites they would more than hold their own. I don't know if any of these teams could go to the Horse-shoe and win or if any could walk out with a W in the Big House. (I know that Appy St. won at the Big House but the focus level for any of these teams would be much better than it was for Appy St.) Now both teams would suffer some losses because they would have a hard time going into the mentioned teams homes and winning, but they would play a role in the SEC Championship every year. If it be by being in the game or by beating a team that looked like it would be playing in the game.

I am a big SEC football guy, and I think the SEC is the best football confrence in the country hands down. I don't like the Big X because they don't play a confrence championship and they seem to play a much slower style of football. But anyone who thinks that OSU and Michigan couldn't come into the SEC and compete for the SEC crown every year is kidding themselves. If you let either team play Flordia, LSU, UT, Alabama, Georgia and Auburn at alternating sites they would more than hold their own. I don't know if any of these teams could go to the Horse-shoe and win or if any could walk out with a W in the Big House. (I know that Appy St. won at the Big House but the focus level for any of these teams would be much better than it was for Appy St.) Now both teams would suffer some losses because they would have a hard time going into the mentioned teams homes and winning, but they would play a role in the SEC Championship every year. If it be by being in the game or by beating a team that looked like it would be playing in the game.

 

Please....SEC teams play in stadiums like that every single week. The Swamp, UT, LSU, USC, ARK, ALA, just to name a few. SEC schools sell out pretty much every conference week. They know how to play in an hostile environment or they would be in a lot of trouble.

Please....SEC teams play in stadiums like that every single week. The Swamp, UT, LSU, USC, ARK, ALA, just to name a few. SEC schools sell out pretty much every conference week. They know how to play in an hostile environment or they would be in a lot of trouble.

 

They're all tough in the SEC. Auburn and Georgia are also very difficult places to place. Even UK is a tough road game.

They're all tough in the SEC. Auburn and Georgia are also very difficult places to place. Even UK is a tough road game.

 

Exactly

I am a big SEC football guy, and I think the SEC is the best football confrence in the country hands down. I don't like the Big X because they don't play a confrence championship and they seem to play a much slower style of football. But anyone who thinks that OSU and Michigan couldn't come into the SEC and compete for the SEC crown every year is kidding themselves. If you let either team play Flordia, LSU, UT, Alabama, Georgia and Auburn at alternating sites they would more than hold their own. I don't know if any of these teams could go to the Horse-shoe and win or if any could walk out with a W in the Big House. (I know that Appy St. won at the Big House but the focus level for any of these teams would be much better than it was for Appy St.) Now both teams would suffer some losses because they would have a hard time going into the mentioned teams homes and winning, but they would play a role in the SEC Championship every year. If it be by being in the game or by beating a team that looked like it would be playing in the game.

 

I do not think any realistic person denies that tOSU and UM would be competing year in and out for an SEC title. But beyond that, many people question the strength of the Big 10, on a somewhat consistent basis. There are many years the Big 10 is just as or even stronger than the SEC.

 

The best I can sum it up... when you say Big 10, you think of these two schools. When you say SEC, most say more than two schools. That is why so many believe the SEC is far supreme. Whether that logic makes any sense, I do not know? :lol:

The Big10 is EXTREMELY top heavy. tOSU and Michigan... thats it consistently. Thats where the problem is. The SEC is extremely deep and on any one year could have 5 or 6 teams in the Top 15.

The quality does stretch deeper year in year out in the SEC. Even all the way to the national championship.

 

In the last 30 years nearly half of the SEC has won at least one national championship.

 

Florida (2), LSU, Tennessee, Alabama (3), Georgia

 

In the last 30 years 2 teams in the big 10 have won a national championship.

 

Ohio State and Michigan (Penn State became a member of the big 10 in 1990).

I do not think any realistic person denies that tOSU and UM would be competing year in and out for an SEC title. But beyond that, many people question the strength of the Big 10, on a somewhat consistent basis. There are many years the Big 10 is just as or even stronger than the SEC.

 

The best I can sum it up... when you say Big 10, you think of these two schools. When you say SEC, most say more than two schools. That is why so many believe the SEC is far supreme. Whether that logic makes any sense, I do not know? :lol:

 

Actually, he uses a perfect comparison. tO$U and Michigan could come in and compete for the SEC on a yearly basis. On the other hand, Tennessee, Georgia, Auburn, Florida...etc could come in to the Big 11 and compete every year...

Actually, he uses a perfect comparison. tO$U and Michigan could come in and compete for the SEC on a yearly basis. On the other hand, Tennessee, Georgia, Auburn, Florida...etc could come in to the Big 11 and compete every year...

 

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They're all tough in the SEC. Auburn and Georgia are also very difficult places to place. Even UK is a tough road game.

Come on. Please do not put UK in as a tough game. Until the last two years they were the Big Ten's version of Northwestern. Even at their best they are 7-5 and that equals Indiana. People fail to mention Happy Valley and Wisconson. The Big Ten is not just the Horseshoe and Big House!

Come on. Please do not put UK in as a tough game. Until the last two years they were the Big Ten's version of Northwestern. Even at their best they are 7-5 and that equals Indiana. People fail to mention Happy Valley and Wisconson. The Big Ten is not just the Horseshoe and Big House!

 

Penn State I will give you. But there is a reason people have recently forgotten about them

 

Wisconsin has had success over the past 15 years, but before that, it was one of the laughing stocks of college football. I still question, with the departure of Alvarez, if they can maintain their recent success. He ranks as one of my top coaches of all time.

Come on. Please do not put UK in as a tough game. Until the last two years they were the Big Ten's version of Northwestern. Even at their best they are 7-5 and that equals Indiana. People fail to mention Happy Valley and Wisconson. The Big Ten is not just the Horseshoe and Big House!

 

UK is 11-4 at Commonwealth over the last 2 seasons, including a win over the number 1 ranked team in the country so I'd say it has become a tough place to play. The past couple of seasons are very relevant because UK has just gotten to where they have a full compliment of scholarships. The announcers noted during the FSU game that UK's roster was now full of legitimate SEC level athletes--that wasn't the case 3 seasons ago. As for Indiana, even as bad as UK was didn't they win what, 8 out of the last 10 against IU?