re: How does the bottom of the SEC hold up to the bottom of other conferences?

For me it's really the middle that has always separated the SEC. Speaking as a former bottom feeder, UK, we use to play Indiana almost every year in the 80s, early 90s. I thought we would have been .500 a lot of years in the Big Ten back then. Even 6 win SEC teams have 2 or 3 players that can wreck you