SEC Fans: Sit Down and Stifle It!

Okay, I was playing along nicely with everyone and everything was going swimmingly, until a few SEC fans started shooting their mouths off and started some serious smack with me. What happened to the charm of my Southern friends? What happened to that Southern hospitality? I like the Gators, remember?

I shall return the darts being thrown at me with some firepower of my own.

First, to the fan who started mouthing off about how from 2002-2007, the SEC has dominated the Pac-10, hear me out.

Just what possessed you to use those particular years to cite your claim? Do you have any idea how completely questionable you sound when you cite a specific five-year stretch in one decade?

While don't we make it simple for the SEC fans who think the Pac-10 conference is weak and look at the entire decade?

2000
Alabama 24, UCLA 35 Pac-10 winner

2001
UCLA 20, Alabama 17 Pac-10 winner

2002
Auburn 17, USC 24 Pac-10 winner
Mississippi State 13, Oregon 36 Pac-10 winner

2003
USC 23, Auburn 0 Pac-10 winner
LSU 59, Arizona 13 SEC winner
Oregon 42, Mississippi State 34 Pac-10 winner

2004
Oregon State 21, LSU 22 SEC winner

2005
Arkansas 17, USC 70 Pac-10 winner
LSU 35, Arizona State 31 SEC winner

2006
USC 50, Arkansas 14 Pac-10 winner
Washington State 14, Auburn 40 SEC winner
Arizona 3, LSU 45 SEC winner
California 18, Tennessee 35 SEC winner

2007 Tennessee 31, California 45 Pac-10 winner

Since the 2000 season, the Pac-10 has a 9-6 advantage over the SEC. Now I know some fine folks in the South will argue that the reason why the Pac-10 has an advantage is because USC is the only team worth anything in the conference. Sound familiar, SEC fans?

Let's take USC out of the equation, but to be fair, let's take out LSU as well. USC had four of their conference's wins, while LSU had four of the SEC's. The new tally is now 5-2, Pac-10 smoking the SEC.

In other words, USC was responsible for less than 50 percent of its conference's wins, but LSU was responsible for 66 percent of their conference's wins. Just who is the "top heavy" conference here?

Want more darts thrown?

Two of the SEC's wins, in 2004 and 2005, were by a combined five points. That's it!

In 2004, LSU beat Oregon State, at Baton Rouge, by one point in OT. The same Oregon State team that went 6-5 that season. Barely a .500 team. A team that lost to Boise State and barely beat New Mexico, took the Bayou Bengals to OT.

The SEC has played 15 games against the Pac-10, and of the six wins they had, only two were on the road. The Pac-10, on the other hand, won four of their nine road games and sent one into OT.

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