SEC members appear even stronger this season, widening gap as college football’s top conference
It’s been said before, and Saturday the case was made again — the SEC is the strongest football conference in the country.
The evidence is there for anyone who cares to look.
First the obvious: The past two national champions have come from the SEC. Nine of the conference’s 12 teams went bowling last year, a 10th was bowl-eligible but not invited and an 11th just missed being bowl-eligible by one game.
And the new evidence: Florida’s 56-10 thrashing of 2007 BCS team Hawaii, South Carolina’s 34-0 blanking of North Carolina State, Kentucky’s 27-2 shellacking of Louisville and the coup de grace, Alabama’s 34-10 humiliation of No. 9 Clemson.
Perhaps at no time in the history of college football has the SEC’s case for supremacy been stronger.
“I don’t think many people doubt that,” said Georgia coach Mark Richt, whose Bulldogs entered the season ranked No. 1 and dispatched Georgia Southern 45-21 on Saturday. “They might think another team or two is as good or better than all the teams in our league, but I don’t think anybody tries to say another league’s better. … With what we’re dealing with from top to bottom, there’s just nothing that compares to it.”
al.com
9/4/08
Magnolia Tribune
