http://moondogsports.com/2009/01/11/secs-dominance-not-likely-to-end-soon/
With Florida’s win over Oklahoma in last Thursday’s BCS national championship game, the SEC has now won three straight BCS titles and four of the past six national championships.
Overall, the SEC has won five BCS titles, starting in 1998 when the BCS system first went into effect.
If you hate the Southeastern Conference – and many of you do – there will be more opportunities to express your disdain for college football’s dominant conference next season and many seasons beyond.
Regardless if you like the SEC or not, there’s no denying the league will produce at least one team to contend for the BCS national championship every year for the foreseeable future.
Even this past season when the SEC had a down year, the league still produced two teams with a legitimate shot at winning the national title. Only the Big 12 produced more than one team with a chance to win the BCS title this year.
Over the past six years, the SEC and Big 12 have put eight teams in the BCS championship game while the Big 10 and Pac 10 have produced two teams, with the Pac 10s representative being USC on both occasions.
The ACC and Big East haven’t put any of their league’s member teams in the title game over that time period.
The 2009-10 season won’t be much different than this past season. Florida may actually be better next season and Alabama will again be very strong. Add a resurgent LSU team into the mix and the SEC will have three teams that could be in Pasadena on January 7, 2010.
Outside of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, USC from the Pac 10 and Ohio State from the Big 10, no other league will enter next season with a team that has a realistic shot at breaking the SECs dominance.
MoonDogSports
1/11/09
