QUOTE(Frognosticator @ Jun 22 2010, 03:42 PM) [snapback]585950[/snapback]
SEC has their fair share of crap schools: Mississippi State, Vandy, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee. Add to that the fact that SEC schools travel far less than any other schools in the country in OOC games and you start to make up for the Alabama, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Auburn type schedule.
Wow, the "crap schools" you're talking about would be better than several teams in our league.
Arkansas is 71-54 for the decade...went to seven bowls in ten years, won their division of the SEC twice, and beat 10-win teams five times.
Tennessee is 83-44 for the decade...went to eight bowls in ten years, won their division of the SEC three times, and beat 10-win teams eight times.
Kentucky I'll grant you was crap in the early half of the decade, but in the last four years has gone 30-22, been to four straight bowl games, won three of them, and beaten an 8-5 Auburn, an 8-5 Georgia, a 9-5 East Carolina, a 7-6 Florida State, an 8-5 Clemson, a 9-4 Georgia, and a 12-2 BCS Champion LSU.
Mississippi State and Vanderbilt, I will grant you, are crap teams (2 of 12 instead of the 2 of 9 we have that are total crap year-in, year-out in SDSU and UNLV). But BOTH have been to bowls in the last three years, something SDSU hasn't done since 1998 and something UNLV hasn't done since 2000.
Arkansas and Tennessee would compete for conference championships in the MWC...I'm not saying I think either are as good as TCU, BYU, Boise, or (for one more year) Utah right now. But there would be years where they would be. Kentucky would make for a better fourth team than Air Force right now. And their worst (MSU and Vandy) are at the very least better than our worst.
MWC and SEC have different definitions for their crappy teams.