as long as black folks don't start leaving the south en masse or choose schools far from where they live, the SEC will dominate. our dominance is a by product of the fact that most of the great athletes in this country live in the south. even those big 10 and pac 12 schools have to come south to recruit.
best player on ohio state and usc last year were from the south. joey bosa (florida) and leonard williams (florida).
It's just when you look top to bottom for say the Big 10, the accepted third best conference, the talent parity gets leaps and bounds worse, once you get past Michigan State, who will likely take another drop off again this year, you get to some teams that basically rely on getting the best of the rest. And then you take into consideration, some of their best years are 12-1 Rose Bowls or 10-3 victories in the Outback (an example, not literally their best season). And they are consistently the upper echelon in their conference. Even in the PAC 12, Oregon doesn't recruit at an elite level, but this is their first year in a long ass time where we're even considering they could be dethroned.
The state of Alabama has dominated the SEC championship for the past since 2009, with a 3 point hiccup stopping it from being every year, but even with them being the favorite, they usually don't get a break week to week. Until you get to the point where the SEC champion isn't facing a top 10, top 15 schedule, then I believe you have room to say it's genuinely over for the conference as a whole.
With that being said, this season goes a while into instilling back to those critics, that the top of here, is truly the top everywhere. And I feel that's where YOU are getting debated against.
agreed.Meanwhile Ole Miss still getting love.
