The SEC, as I have mentioned before, is easily the most overrated conference in college football.
One of the ploys used by teams from that conference is to play all its non-conference games at home against non-BCS conference teams. Another ploy is to add an extra home game to the schedule against these teams, giving many SEC teams 7 homes games in an 11-game season.
Since the NCAA statistics show that home teams win 62% of the time, the extra home games help the SEC to produce several teams who are bowl eligible. It also helps produce four or five ranked teams every year, thus giving the conference even more credibility.
Dennis Dodd recently pointed out (before this past weekend’s games) that the SEC is 14-4 against non-conference foes. He saw this as proof of the SEC’s dominance. He failed to mention that only three of those 18 games were against teams from BCS conferences and that three were against 1-AA teams. And, that only three of those 18 games were on the road (the SEC teams lost each of those road games).
Whatever the case, I say this because I wanted to note that Ole Miss braved a trip to Wyoming and lost, while Vandy fell on the road at Navy. You have to give the Rebels and Commodores credit for at least playing a non-conference team away from home for once. That’s something the elite teams like Georgia and LSU can’t seem to do.
In Ole Miss’s case, they even went outside of its time zone to play a game.
Heckuva conference, the SEC.
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