- Touching on conference strength, I think it's a bit humorous how ESPN, "Your trusted worldwide leader in sports," has this HUGE debate going on about who is the "strongest conference." The epic battle this year pits the Big 12 vs. the perennial favorite SEC.
Even funnier is the thought that ESPN is trying to sell you and I, the college footballaholics, the idea that this is really even a debate, because it's not even close in my mind.
The Big 12 is far and away, THIS SEASON, the best college football conference in America. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State are all legitimate Top 25 teams, with four teams in the Big 12 SOUTH ranked in the Top 10.
Watch their games, and they've been amongst the most entertaining of the season. Oklahoma-Texas, Oklahoma State-Texas, and Missouri-Oklahoma State were all competitive, exciting, compelling must-watches for college football fans this season.
Future matchups like Oklahoma-Oklahoma State, Texas-Texas Tech, Kansas-Missouri, and Oklahoma-Texas Tech are going to be compelling matchups as well.
Maybe the best indicator that the Big 12 is the best conference in America is the quarterback play, which is second to none. Graham Harrell, Colt McCoy, Sam Bradford, Todd Reesing, Chase Daniel, and Zac Robinson—if you listed the top 10 quarterbacks in the country right now, all of them would probably be on the list.
The SEC, on the other hand, I would agree with the majority is the best conference on most years. But has there ever been a year that a conference has been as overrated?
Bring on the poster board hate, SEC fan...because you can fill up all the stadiums you want and chant "SEC...SEC..." until all of the rest of us inferior college football fans' ears start bleeding from your sheer ignorance. It's not going to change the fact that you have three really good teams, one good team, four really REALLY average teams, and four flat-out god-awful teams.
"You're wrong Zuke..." I can hear the echoes from the South as I write this paragraph. Really, SEC fan? Tell me ANYTHING GOOD about Tennessee, Mississippi State, Auburn, and Arkansas. Convince me all four of these teams aren't horrific this year, SEC fan.
Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot Auburn v. Mississippi State's heart-stopping 3-2 baseball game. My bad—that was the worst football game I've witnessed in the past decade! That moment in football was brought to you by the SEC, the best conference in their own minds since 1992!
I'll give credit to Alabama, Georgia, and Florida for being very good football teams. I'll even give LSU some love for being decent this year.
But the SEC, whether they want to admit it or not, is a top-heavy conference this year, ESPECIALLY with Auburn and Tennessee just being dreadful, and Arkansas and Mississippi State being a different dimension of bad this year.
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