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Originally Posted by Bearcat
At one point it was REALLY clear the SEC was just better and deeper than every other conference out there.
Recent years though, I'm not so sure. And you can look back at bowl games and other ranked vs ranked games. I think Bama and Georgia skew it a ton, but after them, look at NYD Bowls where it's like 3rd in the SEC vs 3rd in the B12 or B1G, and there just isn't that huge gap people make it out to be.
And I could be wrong... IIRC, in the mid-2010s, they would be like 9-2 in bowls, but I think they were under .500 last year or recently.
It's like so many other things that get hyped up... the "greatest show on turf" WAS pretty great, yet the media was still calling them that like 3 years too late. The B1G was getting embarrassed in big bowl games for years before they stopped getting the benefit of the doubt. Same for Notre Dame.
I feel like the rest of the SEC outside of the top two has gotten weaker in recent years, but people still prop it up as some unbeatable conference because of those two teams.
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NIL lets everyone pay to play. Why go to bama and sit on the bench hoping you win a championship when you can start at Michigan State or Texas Tech and get paid to be the stud on the team?