The topic that started that entire conversation was that UK's #20 ranking was complete dogshyt SEC bias and they didn't deserve it at all.
If an SEC squad schedules 3-4 absolutely horrible OOC opponents to start the season, then beats a couple SEC bottom-dwellers, that doesn't make them a great team. It just means they beat 5-6 bad teams, and there's forty or fifty squads in the country that would do the same. Yet the SEC bias consistently allows any shytty SEC team to be ranked top-20 solely if they make 5-0 or 6-0, no matter how bad their opponents were, and then when a decent team beats those squads it's used as an excuse to elevate the decent team higher than they deserve.
That's why Kentucky was ranked. That's why Florida was ranked. That's why Tennessee was ranked. And none of them were good. They just had poor competition.
All conferences need to schedule better if regular season records are going to have any meaning, but the SEC is the absolute worse at it, and no one else is going to want to schedule tough if they have to compete for playoff spots with a bunch of SEC teams that schedule 3-4 easy wins and are never punished for it.