What makes the SEC the best confernce in football?

Question

Im from south louisiana so i always hear the sec is best but i cant understand why is it the depth of the conference or thier schedules

Tenn Bama Georgia SC have been dominant in the past years they have been average Kentucky has one good year so far and ppl consider them elite vandy ole miss miss st have been at the bottom lsu auburn florida have just recently in past 5 years become domninant and florida is new to the group and arkansas might have the best back in the nation buy when have they been better than average

Answer 1

Do you think people from south Louisiana are going to say the Big East is the best conference? Or the Pac 10? Nah, doubt it. The only thing that makes the SEC a best conference in football is imagination on the part of SEC fans. A land we call make believe. The rest of the country knows better.

Answer 2

Just compare the academic quality of SEC schools to say the Big 10 or the Big East. Big 10 and Big East athletes actually have to attend classes and meet some modicum of academic requirements to play sports and are in a different academic environment than the SEC. The schools themselves aren't as sports-focused as those down south. Look at the public school ratings (k-12) for the SEC states - they're just awful. The residents are too poor and subsequently too ignorant to fix the problem. Look at the pathetic collection of schools that makes up the SEC and then look at the Big 10 in the academic rankings. No school in the SEC can compare to Northwestern or Michigan. God forbid anyone would compare colleges by their academic programs rather than their athletics. Half of the morons who support these schools never went to college nor care about acquiring a decent education. Louisiana, Alabama and Florida are like the third-world compared to other areas of the US.

Answer 3

the depth is incredible. while the conference is probably overrated it is by far the best. it's the whole atmosphere, the tradition, the recruits, the stadiums, the coaches, the schedule, the fact that they play a championship game. when your conference contains LSU, Florida, Bama, Auburn, Georgia, Arkansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, that's one unbelievable conference, those are some of the top schools every year (other than kentucky who is just emerging)

Answer 4

It is the speed and intensity of the games. I am not saying that the fastest players in college football only come from the south (i.e. Ginn from Ohio, DeSean Jackon from Cali), but more team speed in general. The quarterbacks, offensive linemen and especially the defensive linemen, every position is overall faster in the SEC.

When it comes to the intensity, there are a lot more "big time" games played during any one teams SEC season. A team like a USC or Ohio State can play a big game one week and have cake teams for weeks to come until there next big game. Ohio State has played Youngstown State, Akron, and Kent State, some of those games being played in the middle of conference play. But because the SEC is more balanced top to bottom, those teams are the ones that have to get up every single week (and I am not saying that teams like USC or Ohio State don't practice or play the same way every week no matter who they are playing.)

I know this is bringing up the past, but the best example is last years national championship game, Florida looked far superior than OSU and I think that was a result of the gauntlet that SEC teams run every year.

Answer 5

They all play each other, plus some lowly non-conference games.

So not sure how you can judge a conference based on the fact that they don't play any real competition outside of it.

Auburn easily could have lost to K-state. Tennessee got beat by Cal. Bama lost to FSU, Auburn did lose to S. Florida.

So all because Florida beat the crap out of OSU last year, that means that the entire SEC conference is superior to all others? not very good logic. Oh, and LSU killed Notre Dame...yeah, like that was a big win...Auburn barely beat Nebraska and Alabama lost to Okie State..Yes, Kentucky beat Clemson, but come on..and South Carolina escaped Houston..Houston! Georgia beat V-Tech by a bit, Tennessee got beat by Penn State..Arkansas lost to Wisconsin...

Just not enough to prove that the SEC is superior to everyone else..

Answer 6

Their 5-5 record this year against other BCS conferences or their 6-8 record against the big ten in bowl games the last 5. That clearly proves why they are the best.

Answer 7

Well, their schedules are tough BECAUSE their conference is deep. Teams only play, at most, 3 non-conference games per year. Most of the games a team plays are conference games. Most other conferences (the PAC 10, for instance), just have 1 or 2 really good teams and the rest are mediocre. So they only play one or 2 hard conference games. In the SEC, you have something called "parity" which means, MOST of the teams are equally good. So since they are all good, all the conference games are going to be hard.

Answer 8

the fact that the sec attracts the best talent to their schools, and they are the most competitive conference year in and year out, with a number of elite teams competing for national titles year in and year out, makes them the best in college football

Answer 9

They aren't the best, but they get a lot of help by having lower academic standards than the others.

Answer 10

Because they currently have the most good teams. Give them a few years, though. It ebbs and flows.