re: Low tier teams (listen up)

Odd.

OU has made the playoffs a lot more often than Texas has. NEither has won a playoff game.

If we're legitimately ranking teams in the new SEC you have the following groupings.

Teams who've won a playoff national title or at least won a playoff game:

Bama, UGA, LSU

Teams who've made the playoff but never won a game there:

OU, Texas

Teams who won a BCS title but haven't made the playoff:

Florida, Auburn, Tennessee

Teams with older titles/shares of titles:

Arkansas (1964), Ole Miss (1960), A&M (1939)

Everyone else:

Kentucky, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, Mizzou