re: Why do SEC fans think the Pac 10 is weak?

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This is why WE the SEC think that we are the strongest conference and every other conference is weaker than ours.

Conference Championships Schools BCS Championship Game Record
SEC 5 Tennessee (1998), LSU (2003, 2007), Florida (2006, 2008) 5-0 (1.000)
Big 12 2 Oklahoma (2000), Texas (2005) 2-4 (0.333)
Pac-10 1 USC (2004) 1-1 (0.500)
Big Ten 1 Ohio State (2002) 1-2 (0.333)
ACC 1 Florida State (1999) 1-2 (0.333)[6] (2-4 current alignment)
Big East 1 Miami (2001) 1-2 (0.333)[7] (0-0 current alignment)

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The BCS championship game is not a good measure because the teams that get there aren't there because they went through a tournment involving all of the top teams from the various leagues.

None of those SEC BCS championships involved beating a top Pac 10 team.

If they ever go to a tournament with a field big enough so that all of the top teams from what are now BCS leagues are included a league winning five of those tournaments in 11 years or 3 in a row will provide a pretty compelling argument that at least the top teams from that league tend to be the strongest. But that hasn't happened.

In this case, no SEC champ has had to play USC because USC tends to get knocked off by teams in its own league so that it usually doesn't quite make it into the top 2 in the end. But they're getting knocked off by teams in a league that has clearly had the better of its head to head series with the SEC.