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The SEC Speed Truth

The other day I came across a blog entrance on Bleacher Report titled Big Ten Must Permit They Have a Problem. Intrigued, I started reading through it and at once realized it was another article about how the speedy abrupt SEC schools are running circles around the perceptible and fat Big Ten schools.

One thing I love about college football is the expert traditions: Running through the T, UGA VI, Roll Tide, Dotting the I, Touchdown Jesus, Acclaim to the Victors, Rocky Top, the list goes on and on.

Of order there are some traditions that need to go away.  One of them is the Big Ten's theory of "Power Football" which to the rest of the college football universe means, SLOW.

Now for full disclosure I am a Tennessee fan (BSD. - How did that 2007 Outback Trundle work out for ya?), but I spent a compelling deal of time living in Ohio so I differentiate plenty about Big Ten football.  It is not a moment ago Ohio State in the BCS Championship games the days two years, it is the conference as a whole compared to the SEC. 

Every rhythm someone writes a column about how slow or behind the times Big Ten football is, all the fans do is excitement to defend their conference and do not stop to look at the facts.

Which I must allow was my intention by the time I got about half way through this article. Specially when the author uses selective statistics and facts to prove his points.

Overall, the SEC is 11-4 in all BCS games and the Big Ten is 8-9.  Hunger for more?  The SEC won all four of its BCS games the past two years by a combined greenhorn of 161-62.  While the Big Ten lost all four BCS games the former two years by a combined score of 90-73.

Countless stat there, genius, considering half of our BCS games the last two years were against SEC teams. So yeah, if the SEC is enchanting that means the Big Ten is losing. Our other two BCS games featured our B best teams against USC. The SEC's were against Notre Dame and Hawaii. Congrats on that. In 2006 the Big Ten won both of their BCS games. The SEC extinct their one constest. Damn those statistics.

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