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Tell us more about these programs and who they are. Identify them.

The rest of the country have identified the " Top 1 Tier " program and that's Bama. That program is keeping the SEC relevant. Everyone is claiming SEC due to the ongoing success of Bama! Every school in the SEC is "piggy back" riding off Bama. There is not a school called SEC! Can anyone claim their own school? Are you too shameful?

Please don't start telling me what your program did many moons ago. What have your program done in recent history? Most of you would say "nothing". But yet the other hand, you can claim SEC and ride off Bama success.

I can remember when Southern Cal ruled the PAC 12 in the early to mid 2000's. It was a 1 team conference and that is what is going on in the SEC today. It's a 1 team conference ( Bama ) and everyone else is sucking off them.

Other words there is NO Top Tier! Only Top 1. I challenge you to name those great Top Tier programs and their success in the last 3 to 4 years? Where are they today? BOOM!

Based on this - on YOUR OWN basis - then the Pac 12 has NO - NADA - ZERO - top tier programs in it. Don't start telling me what your conference did many moons ago: it hasn't won a NT in 7 years, at least. Even the SEC - the 1 team conference you mentioned - has had 4 different teams win those 7 in a row. As you yourself stated, the Pac-12 was a 1 horse conference a long, long time ago, and it appears that horse has died....