re: Check in here if you DGAF about the SEC and really just care about your team

I hate to admit it but the Gator fan is right. I really like LSU (distant second behind FSU), but I generally pull for the SEC when it has no effect on FSU.

There's some really short memory going on here. Auburn went undefeated and was kept out of a National Championship game in 2004 while we watched scrubs from the PAC 10 and Big 12 play for the National Championship game. In 2006, we came really close to having an OSU vs. Michigan rematch. We (everyone who likes the sport of football) almost had that game. Fortunately, Florida made it in. A lot of commentators and analysts did not like that. The Big 10 was were real football was played... clearly. Lot of talk about whether or not that OSU team was the best ever.

LSU barely made it into the championship game in 2007. If not for UF's performance they year before and some change in perception of the SEC as a conference, they aren't playing in that game. If not for the performance of the SEC, Florida probably doesn't make it in 2008.

The SEC, as a conference, still doesn't get the respect it deserves from everyone- see Jeff Sagarin. Does Alabama make it in last year over the other one loss teams last year if not of the dominance of the SEC?

If you don't care about the SEC doing well, in a lot of situations, you are really rooting against the well being of your own team.