SEC is No. 4 in whose computer poll!!?
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Let’s get one thing straight here, Bubba. The Southeastern Conference may be a lot of things. But its fans may be, how do we put this, nuttier than NASCAR‘s.
The SEC may consider holy matrimony between an Auburn man and his Alabama wife to be a ‘mixed marriage.’
It may be cutthroat. Last summer, Tennessee Coach Phil Fulmer was handed a subpoena when he crossed into Alabama for SEC media day. An Alabama booster was suing the NCAA for libel and defamation, and Fulmer had been been suspected of aiding the investigation against the Crimson Tide program.
The SEC may be a place I’ll steer clear of after not elevating Alabama fast enough in my top-25 poll this season. That earned me a personal invitation from one Crimson Tide fan who wanted to, um, show me around Tuscaloosa, with me, if I caught his drift, in an automobile’s trunk.
But one sure-shootin’ thing the SEC is not is the FOURTH-best football conference in America.
Yet, that’s where the SEC ranks in the weekly ratings of USA Today’s Jeff Sagarin, who operates one of the six computers used in formulating the BCS standings.
Sagarin has the SEC ranked behind the Big 12, the Big Ten and the Atlantic Coast.
The ACC? All you need to know is that Virginia, which lost its home opener to USC, 52-7, is leading the Coastal Division. And some team coached by Bobby Bowden is leading the Atlantic. And the Bowden who was supposed to win the conference, Tommy of Clemson, has already been run off the campus.
The Big 12? Shoot, that’s a 7-on-7 passing league, the WAC on steroids. And the Big Ten .. .do we have draw Sagarin a picture of the last two national title games?
Sagarin also has Florida No.15 in his BCS rankings this week. .. Ball State is No. 12.
We’re guessing Sagarin’s inbox may be full.
-- Chris Dufresne
