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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 909884, member: 289"] National champions as recognized by the writers, (1936), Coaches (1950) and the BCS, (1998), including split titles: 1930's: Big 10, Ind, SWC, SWC (my favorite conference;)) 1940's:Big 10, Big 10, Big 10, Ind, Ind, Ind, Ind, Ind-Big 10, Big 10, Ind 1950's: Big 8, SEC, Big 10, ACC, Big 10-Pac 8, Big 8, Big 8, SEC-Big 10, SEC, Ind 1960's: Big 10, SEC, Pac 8, SWC, SEC, SEC-Big 10, Ind, Pac 8, Big 10, SWC 1970's: Big 8, Big 8, Pac 8, Ind, Big 8-Pac 8, Big 8, Ind, Ind, SEC-Pac 10, SEC 1980's: SEC, ACC, Ind, Ind, WAC, Big 8, Ind, Ind, Ind, Ind 1990's: Big 8-ACC, Ind-Pac 10, SEC, ACC, Big 8, Big 8, SEC, Big 12-Big 10, SEC, ACC 2000's: Big 12, Big East, Big 10, SEC-Pac 10, Pac 10, Big 12, SEC, SEC, SEC, SEC 2010's: SEC, SEC, SEC, ACC Yes, it used to be much more competitive. I think the balance of power has shifted south, with only one national champion in the last 16 seasons coming from north of the Mason-Dixon line because it used to be that northern teams were famous for their size and strength because they spent half the a year sin doors lifting weights while southern teams spent 12 months year outside, running. But everybody lifts weight, (and other things) these days so everybody is big and strong. That's not an advantage anymore- just a minimum requirement to compete. The advantage is in speed and the southern schools have first dibs on that. The ACC has never been as good as the SEC because it's been primarily a basketball conference, rather than a football conference. It had to import ready-made football powerhouses in Miami and Florida State, (and those teams faded in the last decade, although the 'Noles are now 'back'). Football's always been #1 in the SEC. Kentucky became a basketball powerhouse simply because they couldn't compete in football so, like the ACC, they sought another outlet for their ambitions. (For many years, basketball standings in conferences seemed to be the football standings, inverted: thus, Kentucky was the best basketball program in the SEC, Indiana in the Big Ten and Kansas in the Big 8-12. It's still true but to a lesser extent as the football schools discovered money could be made in basketball, too.) I was hopeful that FSU would dominate Auburn, as they had dominated their ACC opponents, and herald a new era in which the SEC would not be dominant anymore. Instead they got dominated and had to put on a miracle rally to win. I don't think their win shifted the balance of power. It just confirmed where the power really was. [/QUOTE]

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