CFP Championship: Fans crown the SEC conference as overrated
By Kelvin Hunt
Clemson smoked Alabama in the CFP Championship game and the narrative the SEC is overrated begins to hold weight.
Alabama was the prohibitive betting favorite over Clemson going into the CFP Championship game Monday night and a lot of people lost money.
Not me, as you know I picked Clemson to beat Alabama straight up just as I did the last time they met in the CFP Championship game with the same result.
Clemson didn’t just beat Alabama, they destroyed them 44-16 and made them seemingly quit in the fourth quarter.
Georgia lost to Texas after whining about not making the CFP playoffs with two losses. South Carolina got shut out by Virginia.
Missouri and Mississippi State loss and LSU had a life and death game with UCF who was without their starting QB.
The SEC conference went just 6-6 in bowl games and fans on social media have been quit to point out the SEC isn’t as good as most media hype it up to be.
Twitter Reaction
So the SEC's two best teams get blown away in their bowl games.
— Danny Kanell (@dannykanell) January 8, 2019
The conference was 6-6 in bowl season.
And yet all I heard was how the SEC was "head and shoulders" above all else. Smh.
Don't believe the hype because that's all it is.
Damn, so the SEC had a worse bowl record than the ACC & lost the championship to the ACC?? Ouch
— Jay B (@TrueOrigiNole) January 8, 2019
In fairness, this was a bowl game so SEC teams don’t care. Plus, Clemson got to save it’s energy all year for this, while Bama had showdowns with Arkansas and Ole Miss and Tennessee that wore them down. And, most importantly, ah hell I’m done. Duke-Bama, Aug 31!
— 💫🅰️♈️🆔 (@ADavidHaleJoint) January 8, 2019
Dear SEC.... ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/eoxw9cnjWd
— Ricky Sapp (@Sapp91) January 8, 2019
Hey #SEC fans, was Alabama just not motivated for this “bowl game”😉😉 #ACCFootball
— ACC Sports Nation (@ACCSportsTalk1) January 8, 2019
Thoughts
I mean the proof’s in the pudding guys. The SEC had five teams placed in the top 25 by media voters in the preseason with three in the top 10.
Media bias props up the SEC from the get go with all these terrible preseason rankings and the SEC is just not that great from top to bottom as a conference.
They’re relying heavily on Alabama and Georgia to carry the conference just as the ACC was relying on FSU and Clemson from 2013-16.
The SEC simply isn’t that great of a conference that plays a ton of weak non-conference games. For instance, three of Kentucky’s wins are against Murray State, Central Michigan and Middle Tennessee State. South Carolina had seven wins in 2018 with three of those wins coming against Akron, Chattanooga and Coastal Carolina.
Texas A&M had UAB, Louisiana-Monroe and Northwestern State on their schedule.
I mean those schedules aren’t exactly daunting, not to mention there were five SEC schools with six or more losses on the year.
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The excuse the SEC is so tough it’s OK to schedule such a soft non-conference schedule is a joke. It’s time for the media to open their eyes and call it for what it really is, but we know there’s too much money in TV (ESPN) for that to happen, ahem.