Three straight years, the SEC hasn’t even played for the title, while the B1G has won it.
7 Likes
Yes. The SEC, SEC, Sec stuff needs to stop.
4 Likes
Both have elite teams. Feels like the sec has more solid teams throughout the conference, while the big has a large gap between the top and bottom.
If you seeded the teams and had them play the sec takes it. Big has definitely proven to have the best team overall lately though.
I think the SEC does a disservice to themselves, that they don’t think about, with their non-conference scheduling.
For decades the average SEC team has played less than one away non-conference game a year.
Are they as ready as they can be for hostile environments versus teams they don’t know? And have they always been overrated because of this pattern?
2 Likes
the B10 has 3 teams that’ll sleepwalk in the top 8 while the SEC is just georiga and errybody else
4 Likes
The SEC shut out of the CFP Finals three straight years. Dontcha just love it?
13 Likes
This is pretty funny though, Indiana’s 2026 nonconference is North Texas, Howard and WKU
2 Likes
Indiana could be the new Georgia.
You cant argue with 3 straight championships from 3 different schools for BIG. SEC has more good teams, but top level? That is BIG territory.
The transfer portal and NIL has in a sense leveled the playing field. Indiana stole the thunder of the “Blue Bloods.” Winning it all can now be accomplished by a number of schools with access to deep pockets. In a way it’s refreshing to think we have left the era of the “Bluebloods”, and have begun the era of “New Bloods.”
1 Like
Yes. Yes it has.
Hopefully, IU’s win signals a much needed reordering of the college landscape.
Even playing field. Yes.
The B12 is next. NIL is a gift and a curse, and it’s always Christmas time in Big 10 country.
Last I checked Indiana is still a B1G team, not some poor underdog Tulane or even Kansas regardless of their historical record as that means little in today’s environment. Indiana has still been getting Big 10 media money and media exposure while others have not had that advantage.
Also 1 year does not necessarily mean the end of an age or end of an era. It could be, but until every year has a different champion and there are championship games without the Big 10 or SEC the power has not fully shifted.
So far Indiana has only shown that it is possible to evaluate players and buy them with enough money. It takes both coaching and money to win.
1 Like
Well said.
And some of their most valuable players this year were indeed bought with NIL.
Nobody should fool themselves into thinking otherwise.
I’ll admit up front I’m jaded, but with the book Death To The BCS in the back of my mind, I can’t help but remember and notice that every format change has come when the bug 10 is unhappy about not winning titles. Now that we have the perfect storm of nil, transfer portal, realignment, and sports betting, I can’t help the suspicion that there are reasons the bug 10 has suddenly been able to win 3 in a row, and the sec can’t even make the final (nor the big 12 for that matter…).
It just means more when the SEC is not playing for championships.
1 Like
Watching Finebaum weasel his way to excuses should be considered a national passtime.
1 Like
finebaum The Rodent just won the espn giant slalom gold medal.
Indiana has been getting BIG money and media exposure for years and continued to lose…They went 3-9 the year before Cignetti got there! and 11-2 in his first year…They win because Cignetti brought a winning culture to Indiana and knows how to evaluate and coach. Buy them with enough money? PLEASE…They are a whole team of 3 star players with a few 4 stars and they kicked the living daylights out of teams with 50+ 4 and 5 star players. They win because of coaching and culture. WE can do the same.
1 Like