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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1177902, member: 652"]
Interesting article 
[url]http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/the-worldwide-cheerleader-espn-and-the-college-football-playoff-20141028[/url]

I don't disagree with the premise. ESPN hypes the SEC like they are the conference PR firm.
Money quotes right here.

[B]For example, two different broadcasters on the network, [URL='http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/id/2005424/size/condensed/']analyst Brock Huard[/URL] and [URL='http://instagram.com/p/txzn2uONA3/']anchor Cassidy Hubbarth[/URL], proclaimed that Florida State – one of only two teams in this week's [I]AP[/I] top five not in the SEC – "barely escaped," "struggled" and took Wake Forest "down to the wire" in a game it won 43-3.

Or consider the way ESPN covered a pair of wins against Tennessee earlier this season. The first, a 24-point margin of victory for the Big 12's Oklahoma, was characterized on Twitter as "[URL='https://twitter.com/SportsCenter/status/510997134972551168']Oklahoma [I]holds on[/I] to beat Tennessee 34-10[/URL]." [Emphasis added.] The second, a three-point win, 35-32, for the SEC's Georgia, was positioned, "Dawgs run away from Vols[/B]."
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