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[QUOTE="Bryanw1995, post: 4686584, member: 9107"]
I think that everyone understands it pretty well already.  Auburn has a losing record in SEC play since we joined.  Arky is 1-10 against us in league play.  And we're a weak 3rd best in the SECW over that time period, far behind #2 LSU and even further behind #1 bama of course.  However, schools adapt.  Alabama's Saban years will prove to be a historical anomaly, he had better bagmen and was able to out-talent everybody for 10 years.  Now?  The transfer portal and NIL have turned football on its head, anybody with a Phil Knight or Tillman Fertitta can dream of being the next Alabama, but nobody can outspend all the others by huge margins year in and year out.  Who has more money than Texas Oilmen, or billionaire ND or USC grads?  Alabama furniture salesmen certainly don't.

We don't have to win big every year, but we all want to be in the conversation at the start of the year, and at least some years we want to be in the conversation at the end of it.  Bigger programs will demand more success from their coaches of course, but that's unlikely to do much to change the fact that there are only a few teams from a 16 team conference that will qualify each year for a 12 team CFP.
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