After yesterday's action, which left me with the thought that there are about 4-5 actually good teams in the country, I thought it was time to discuss one thing in particular: is the SEC really infinitely better than any other conference?  The reason I'm thinking of this right now is easy: Ole Miss won in Gainesville yesterday, and the settling conventional wisdom seems to be that "this is proof of how great the SEC really is" instead of "Maybe Florida's not that great this year."  Meanwhile, Auburn vs Tennessee was a battle of two positively horrendous offenses.  How bad are some of the offenses in the SEC?  I'm confident in saying that any starting QB in the Big 12 could start for these two "strong programs", along with about six others.  That's right--if Austen Arnaud were Auburn's starting QB, they'd be a better team than they are right now.  And hell...if Zac Robinson played for Auburn, they'd be a Top 5 team bar none.  And he's probably the Big 12's sixth-best QB!

I figured the best way to see if SEC really is head-and-shoulders above everybody else was to do a basketball-style "conference challenge".  You know how it works.  I was too impatient to wait for the polls to come out, so the 1-12 ranking are based completely on my own subjectivity.  And we'll assume every matchup is played at a neutral site as close to directly in between the schools as possible.

Big 12

1. Oklahoma
2. Missouri
3. Texas
4. Texas Tech
5. Kansas
6. Oklahoma State
   
7. Nebraska
8. Colorado
9. Baylor
10. Kansas State
    
11. Iowa State
    
12. Texas A&M

SEC

1. Alabama
2. LSU
3. Georgia
4. Florida
5. Auburn
6. Vanderbilt
7. Ole Miss
   
8. Kentucky
9. South Carolina
   
10. Tennessee
11. Mississippi State
    
12. Arkansas

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