Last season, the brave SEC scheduled only three regular-season games outside the South. Arkansas visited USC; Kentucky ventured to Indiana, and Tennessee showed up at Notre Dame. The results? The SEC went 0-3 and was out-scored by a combined 149-52. Add the fact that SEC champion Georgia, playing in Atlanta, was beaten 38-35 by Big East king West Virginia in the Sugar Bowl, and what you had a year ago was a vastly overrated conference.
I lived in Florida for a time and got to watch tons of SEC games and I will say that they are a very good conference. However, they are overrated. This isn't because the conference isn't any good, it is because of the constant boot-licking the SEC receives from the press.
What is the best conference in football? This year I'd say it's the Big Ten (surprise, surprise). Everyone thinks that Tosu and Mich. are reloaded and ready for action and with PSU, Wisconsin, and Purdue "lurking" (PSU doesn't lurk, they dominate). Plus I think everyone in the Big Ten plays ND as well as Tosu scheduling a tough road trip against Texas the out of conference schedules for the Big Ten are pretty meaty too. So, that is my short, poorly written argument for why the Big Ten is the toughest conference in college football.
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