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Pat Forde: SEC no longer the king of college football
This article stretches the limits of what you can accomplish with statistics.
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"All total, 29.7 percent of the league’s non-conference games are against teams from power-five conferences or Notre Dame. The SEC, by comparison, plays 19.6 percent of its non-league games against power-five opponents.

So between the ninth conference game and the willingness to play a 10th quality opponent, the Pac-12 has set the bar in terms of strength of schedule."

Just ignore the actual SOS rankings, and the fact that the SEC doesn't just have Oregon and... and.... who else is going to challenge for the playoff?
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The combination may not yield a national champion, but it almost certainly will yield a College Football Playoff participant – and if things break right, possibly even two. Which could cause some folks south of the Mason-Dixon Line to threaten secession once again.

I would say I stopped reading at this point, but I did scroll down and look at the pictures at the bottom.

He also conveniently forgot to mention that the SEC plays FOUR OOC games, the Pac 2 only plays three, which means we HAVE to, by simple lack of availabilty have more lower-echelon OOC games than them.

Try scheduling in advance more than 1 BCS-caliber quality OOC opponent. LSU had gotten lucky we got 2 in 2011 (Oregon and West Va.)