I think one of the most annoying things about college football is how much fanfare there is for the SEC. The real reason is they have rabid fans that fill message boards and any other medium online making them seem like that is the only way to play football. While I agree that the athletes who play in the SEC are likely the fastest, doesn't crown them as the toughest athletes.
People will argue to me that "We have the top two teams in the nation, how can we not be the best?" Well my friends, those two teams-Florida and Alabama have already clinched their respective conferences. I would expect that sort of thing to come down to the final weekend or damn near close to it. The SEC this year has two great teams then a couple of good teams, then the rest are simply average.
I am not taking away from anything that Bama and the Gators have accomplished this year but there hasn't been that third team to challenge either team. Mississippi was supposed to be that team and they fell flatter on their face than Melissa Joan Hart on Jimmy Kimmel. South Carolina has a mean defense, but the Ole Ball Coach cannot find out how to coach offense. LSU doesn't have a quarterback and just lost Charles Scott, which will prove to hurt the team. Auburn shown nothing in big game situations and Georgia inconsistency has been a huge problem.
The Pac-10 is clearly the best conference this year. USC and Oregon can compete with anyone plus Arizona has the chance to prove they are for real in the coming weeks. Stanford has come out of nowhere to be a good team and Toby Gerhardt might be one of the most underrated players in college football. In addition, California and Oregon State shouldn't be slept on. That my friends are a definition of a tough as nails conference. The reason why they get no love is due to the East Coast bias that haunts the sports media day in and day out.
-Charlie.
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