re: Other SEC fan bases: do y’all also think there is a bias?

No, I think some of y'all are just fricking idiots. The "SEC offices in Birmingham" thing hasn't been relevant since email replaced the Pony Express as the quickest and most convenient way to communicate across great distances. Catch up to the 21st century, people. Physical location means almost nothing. They could favor TAMU all day long and wouldn't have to step out of their air-conditioned offices in Birmingham for a second.

I think that telling the refs what to call or do would be utterly ridiculous. All it takes is a single official not liking the situation for the whole thing to blow up in the SEC's collective faces.

I think, in the last 15 years, four different SEC programs have won the national title. If the SEC is cheating to keep its elite programs on top, LSU would be right in the thick of it as beneficiaries to such practices.

And last, but not least, I think wild conspiracy theories are just crutches for people who take the entire thing too seriously. They can't imagine that another program could just be plain out better than them, so they invent conspiracies to explain what most people understand as just how the world works. Somebody has to be the best. That somebody doesn't have to be you. This is a realization most of us learn by the time we're legal adults.