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Message: [QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 830017, member: 830"] like i said, I AM NOT CLAIMING the SEC ISN'T THE BEST CONFERENCE. i personally can't stand the SEC, but i do think it contains the best top teams of a conference, not necessarily top down. i just think they are helped out by a self-fulfilling prophecy where they are benefiting, as a whole, from preseason hype (ie. when an unranked SEC team beats a ranked SEC team early on, the unranked SEC picks up a lot of momentum in the polls. As far as the bowl game argument, in my opinion, they aren't as dominant a conference (when it comes to bowl records) as their ego/people's perception eludes (aside from the national championship), and most of those wins have come against the B10, [/QUOTE]