Far as SEC goes yes there are about at least 6 teams in the conference that would also be in the top of any other conference they played in. Find me another conference with 6 teams who could be top tier players anywhere they went.
The middle of the SEC fell out last year no doubt. With Auburn and Arkansas just falling to dust, the only teams left in the middle was Miss St, Ole Miss and Vanderbilt (if you can believe that) . The rest were in a fight for the bottom.
Id love to see Tenn and Auburn get back to relevance (actually I wouldn't the SEC East is hard enough with us competeing against SCAR and GA id hate to add another good team)
Its sad really but we talk about why teams don't usually schedule big OOC games. Fact is it is hard to get into the BCS title game, with 1 loss. Its even harder with 2 (although possible) So teams do not want to risk that loss with no reward. Alabama will steam roll VTech but is the risk worth it? If they win so what they beat a crappy ACC team. But if they lose.. All bets are off. Alabama, doenst need to play that big game to get into the BCS title game so why do it? The risk vs reward is not there and that is why MOST schools do not do it regularly. SEC, big 10 don't care what school you pick. Very few schools do it on a continuous basis. I will say this though VTech has done it for quite a few seasons now and look where it has got them.
The SEC went 6-3 in the bowls last year. and Finished with 7 teams in the top 25 in the final polls including 5 of the top ten. Those were the final polls. After all the games were done. No other conference had 7 teams in the top 25 let alone 5 in the top 10. The big 10 and big12 all had losing records in the bowl games, the pac12 was even and the acc was 4-2..
So if the SEC is over rated, what does that make every other conference? When the numbers continually show they deserve that "rating"
