re: SEC's detractors may be out in force next week

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If the SEC does a clean sweep on rivalry week...nobody will give a frick what happened in Aug/Sept.

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That may be right, but the computers will. Also, a rivalry week sweep of the ACC won't matter as much to voters if the SEC champion is battling a Big Ten, Pac 12 or Big XII champion with the same number of losses, or Louisville with fewer.

And even in the best scenario (i.e., where a rivalry week sweep does make a big difference), look what we are having to depend on...a clean sweep by South Carolina over Clemson, Georgia over Georgia Tech and Florida over Florida State. Doable, but hardly a given.