i agree that there is an SEC bias, but i dont know that it's unprecedented. there are some years where one conference, for whatever reason, is widely considered better than every other, therefore losses are forgiven provided that they happen within the conference. take for instance the 2008 big 12 season. i remember every week was a top 5 match up between missouri, texas, oklahoma state, and oklahoma...and texas was really the only good team that year as evidenced by bowl season with missouri barely beating northwestern, texas tech getting beat by a houston nutt coached ole miss team, oklahoma getting beat by florida, and oklahoma state getting beat by oregon. if the SEC gets beaten routinely during bowl season this year then maybe we'll see a bit less SEC bias next year.
Aggy with a freshman QB and a new HQ goes into Alabama's house and beats them. It was a great win for them but shows what many of us have long suspected - the Hype of the SEC is built on very little out of conference play and a lot of active PR by the conference and passive support from the media. Not buying the SEC is king BS anymore.
Actually La Tech had another lucky play I forgot about, A&M missed an extra point that would have put La Tech down by 16 and would have forced them to try two 2pt tries instead of one. I guess its also debateable whether that counts as luck when the team you are playing misses an extra point in almost every game, though.
I also can't really agree that the A&M data point (5-2) proves the SEC is overrated when the opposite date point involving Missouri shows the opposite (2-5). Which is accurate?
Because we wouldn't be prepared to play them because it was our first game??? Louisiana Tech almost lost to a terrible Cougar High team fresh off a 30-13 drubbing by Texas State following the postponed game, so I fail to see how the postponement really affected the game very much.
I never really remember Mizzou competing for the championship except for 2008 when they had Chase Daniel. That year, Texas mudholed them in the 1st quarter. The SEC should just be thankful they finally replaced the field of horrors that injured so many players. 2-5 is just where they would be this year in the Big 12. Wins over Kansas and a surprise win over a terribly coached Aggy team.
