Big Ten and College Football Playoff: Why SEC Dominance Will Still Continue

We all are absolutely fed up with the BCS, unless you are a fan of the SEC of course. The current format to determine the college football national champion simply isn't accurate enough to figure out who the top two teams are.

I think that's something we can all agree on.

The Big Ten conference is now the most recent to try and turn things around. They have put a proposal on the table that will take the top four teams from the BCS pool and have them play against each other. The top two seeds will have home games and the winner of the two games will obviously be declared national champions. 

While this plan may help change the way a national champion is determined in college football, it will not stop the dominance of the SEC, a conference that has won the last six national championships.

Here's why.

Simply more talented

The SEC isn't a fluke. There's a reason they have won the last six national championships and that's because they're simply more talented than majority of the other teams.

The SEC has several of the top coaches in the country running their teams and they recruit better than any other conference. I mean even Vanderbilt had a solid recruiting class this season. Vanderbilt!

That doesn't include four other teams in the Top 10 and pretty much every other SEC team rounding out the top 50. The teams that recruit better simply have more success than the other teams who don't. And when it comes to recruiting, there is no conference that does it better than the SEC.

You can add as many teams as you want to a playoff format, it doesn't change the fact that very few teams can compete with the best the SEC has to offer. If anything, you're probably just adding more teams from the conference to have a shot at a national championship.

Home field

The top two teams in the country would host home games under this recent proposal. That's great if you're a team from the Big Ten, but the rule also goes for the SEC as well. Can you imagine a team from the Pac-12 or Big Ten going into Tuscaloosa, Baton Rouge or even Gainesville and coming out with a victory? I can't.

The SEC has some of the most hostile environments in all of college football and with the history of the SEC at the top of the polls, there's a great chance a team from another conference will have to travel down south. I don't like those chances at all for a team out west of in the middle of the country.

The polls

Now we're not exactly sure how the top four teams will be determined, but of course there has to be some type of formula to figure it out. If they continue with computers and voters, you have to like the chances of the SEC.

Just look at the final BCS rankings of this season and there were five SEC schools, including three in the Top 10. Last year there were five SEC schools again in the BCS rankings and if you add Missouri and Texas A&M (who are a part of the SEC this season) that makes seven.

The strength of the conference really helps keep teams from the SEC in the rankings and it's a lot easier for the conference to continue its dominance if there's two or three teams from the conference out of the four.

You can switch it up however you like, but the champions may still remain the same.

Randy Chambers is a B/R featured columnist that covers college football and the NFL. You can contact him @Randy_Chambers or [e-mail].