Since the inception of the BCS in 1998 we have been told that the SEC from top to bottom, is the dominate conference in college football. We have been fed this information from the sports pundits in print and television. Every week former ESPN analyst Craig James would holler body of work. He would bash every BCS Buster claiming none of them could sustain the weekly grind of an SEC schedule. Are the pundits correct?
Author of Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession Chuck Thompson devotes one chapter in his book challenging SEC superiority.
In an article featured in Yahoo Sports, The Post Game Thompson begins his challenge asking if the SEC is so dominate why since the start of the BCS era in 1998 does the conference have overall losing records against the Pac-12 (11-12) and Big East (19-23) and superior but not dominating records against other major conferences?
ESPN is a major contributor SEC superiority. Every week we hear all their talking heads saying the SEC is from top to bottom the toughest football conference decorating the college landscape. Is that true or is it part of a well constructed ESPN business plan designed to the SEC and their $2.25 billion dollar SEC investment?
Arguments supporting SEC superiority since the inception of the BCS are they have won 8 of the 14 national championship games, including the last 6. Infact the SEC has won the national title an astonishing 57.14 % since the advent of the BCS. Yet in the 50 years previous to the BCS the SEC claimed the national crown only 10.42 % of the time.
Certainly an amazing turn around in a relatively short period of time. Whats the cause of this amazing turn around?
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