Also, here is a funny link from a CBS sports writer (and SEC fan) comparing the Big 10 and SEC…..make sure you check out the 2nd page also.

http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/9007236

And Florida vs. Michigan that’s going to be Michigan in a landslide! uhhhhm, just kidding, Tebow actually might surpass his Heisman winning stats in that game alone…the Capital One Bowl Selection Committee must HATE Lloyd Carr, they picked the 1 team that would be the WORST match-up for his defense for his last collegiate coaching game.

I’m glad you are a realist. The Big 10 is unlikely to win more than one against the SEC this year. Yet again, Tennessee draws a good Big 10 team in Wisconsin, and something tells me Bret Bielema will come up smelling like roses again. Phil Fulmer just can’t win a bowl game to save his life.

But the other two – the ones that matter – should be decisive victories for the SEC (Florida vs. Michigan and LSU vs. Ohio State). If that doesn’t come to pass, then you’re right, a lot of SEC fans will have to eat crow, including me. But I doubt that’s what’s in store for us.

By the way, the old argument about “come up to play us in Big 10 territory” is ridiculous. We play plenty tough enough schedules as it is, thank you. And no one wants to play a bowl game in the snow. That’s why they’re all in the south.

Also, according to the BCS rankings (the only one that really matters right now); the SEC has 5 ranked teams with 2 ranked in the top ten……however, the Big 12 has four ranked teams with 3 in the top ten (so which holds more merit is another debate that people will always disagree on).

And yes Arkansas had 232 rushing yards to Wisconsin’s -5 (due mainly to Wisconsin’s inability to block Arkansas’ defensive ends) but Wisconsin out passed Arkansas 206 to 136 and Arkansas was also hurt by pass interference penalties (a main component in their 123 yards in penalties) because of their own inability to cover the Wisconsin receivers (or bad coaching schemes if you so choose to say).

Also, yes I do like the sound of my own voice, but quit stealing my lines, I don’t feel like doing Pete and Re-Pete (if you haven’t seen Super Troopers that’s your loss).

And no, my argument is not conflicted, I’m just a realist. I know the Big Ten is having a down year and unless they come up big in their bowl games they won’t be able to say otherwise. However, I am not buying into the SEC being the almighty conference. I think they refuse to travel out of the south to play other teams (for the most part). When they start coming up to play Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Wisconsin in November and win…….then I’ll shut my mouth.

I don’t take credit for Tennessee last year; Penn State prepares well for bowl games and UT does not. In fact, this year, I predict Wisconsin will beat them.

Arkansas lost despite 230+ yard rushing to Wisconsin’s -5. That’s coaching. One name: Houston Nutt. There’s your reason.

Had Nutt won that game as he clearly should have, it’d be 2-1 instead of 1-2 and we wouldn’t be having the conversation.

As for you, Wil, you too seem to like the sound of your own voice insisting that the SEC “ain’t all that”. But where’s the proof? Last year’s bowl record is a weak metric. This year it’s pretty obvious that there are a lot more quality teams in the SEC than in the Big 10, and you even seem to agree with that. I guess your argument comes across as a bit conflicted.

And fo the record: Spencer Tillman of CBS Sports should have his sports analyst card revoked after picking the ACC #2 when almost everyone else picked them as last or 2nd to last.