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In the Age of NIL, SEC supremacy is dead

Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:39 am
Posted by Craw_Dad
Member since Oct 2025
30 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:39 am
2006-2021: An SEC team won 12x, compared to 4 champs from all other conferences.

Since NIL implementation in July 2021: The SEC has won 1 championship and odds are against a win this year. That's 1/4.

SEC football is very good, but the days of dominance over the rest of the sport are over. Anybody think they know why?

What advantage did the SEC enjoy over the rest of college football that the conference no longer has?
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
43149 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:41 am to
It’s too early to be drunk.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 7:44 am
Posted by scottydoesntknow
Member since Nov 2023
10284 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 7:46 am to
Nah the format and makeup of the SEC just favors the Big 10 right now

Right now the middle of the SEC is so good that every game is a war which just wears down your teams towards the end. You cant get by with 2-3 great efforts and coast, otherwise an extremely dangerous Texas team would be in the playoffs. I think 6-7 SEC teams could have played OSU or Oregon's schedule and gone 11-1 at least
Posted by Craw_Dad
Member since Oct 2025
30 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:06 am to
Agree, but the dominant championship teams that outclassed everyone else are gone.

The depth is gone. Paid to start elsewhere. To yourr point, thinner depth makes the gauntlet difficult to conquer.

All this means no more dominant teams toying with the rest of college football.

How did SEC top programs accumulate such a talent advantage prior to NIL and why can't they maintain it now?
Posted by Mr Sausage
Cat Spring, Texas
Member since Oct 2011
15510 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:11 am to
And some idiots want more conference games.
Posted by CNB
Columbia, SC
Member since Sep 2007
101749 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:12 am to
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It’s too early to be drunk.


Debatable
Posted by JCdawg
Member since Sep 2014
9299 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:13 am to
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SEC football is very good, but the days of dominance over the rest of the sport are over.


This is just wrong and incompetent.
Posted by Craw_Dad
Member since Oct 2025
30 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:19 am to
It's fun to label something wrong without any data to back up your claim, but it isn't very convincing.

The SEC hasn't won a championship the past 2 years. Wasn't even represented in the game last year (although some former SEC transfers did figure prominently). The conference likely won't win this year.

You're telling me things haven't changed and the SEC is just as dominant? The results say otherwise.
Posted by Porter Osborne Jr
Member since Sep 2012
43149 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:21 am to
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Debatable


Too early to get drunk, not stay drunk
Posted by CNB
Columbia, SC
Member since Sep 2007
101749 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:22 am to
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Too early to get drunk, not stay drunk


Posted by MrMojoRisin
Parts unknown
Member since May 2014
8063 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:24 am to
Simple. Transfer portal. And the GOAT coach retiring.

Unless you are one the Auburn style conspiracy theorists that thinks NIL eliminates a cheating advantage because your school is clean.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 8:27 am
Posted by ukraine_rebel
North Mississippi
Member since Oct 2012
3726 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:24 am to
Uh, maybe your are drunk, that’d be 2/4 in last 4 years
Posted by JCdawg
Member since Sep 2014
9299 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:27 am to
quote:

The SEC hasn't won a championship the past 2 years. Wasn't even represented in the game last year (although some former SEC transfers did figure prominently). The conference likely won't win this year.

You're telling me things haven't changed and the SEC is just as dominant? The results say otherwise.


You're basing your incompetent argument on 2 years, which is nothing in the grand scheme. Anyone with more than shite for brains knows this is a troll post. The SEC put 5 teams into a 12 team field this year that was forced to include two group of five schools. I know math is probably not your strong suite, but that is 50% of the power schools are from the SEC.

In any case, you're being an insecure troll. Maybe try this post again in 5 years when the potential is there for Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, or Miami to win, because there are about 8 programs in the SEC now that have won a National Championship since the turn of the century.
Posted by TrueLefty
St. Louis County
Member since Oct 2017
18411 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:28 am to
quote:

Nah the format and makeup of the SEC just favors the Big 10 right now

Right now the middle of the SEC is so good that every game is a war which just wears down your teams towards the end. You cant get by with 2-3 great efforts and coast, otherwise an extremely dangerous Texas team would be in the playoffs. I think 6-7 SEC teams could have played OSU or Oregon's schedule and gone 11-1 at least

Tell that to LSU fans. I doubt Lame Kiffin will win a championship at LSU any time soon.
Posted by Craw_Dad
Member since Oct 2025
30 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:30 am to
22: UGA
23: Michigan
24: OSU
25: Likely to be a non-SEC team.

I count 1/4 but I'm relying on my public school math education.
Posted by bbarras85
Member since Jul 2021
2347 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:33 am to
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Tell that to LSU fans. I doubt Lame Kiffin will win a championship at LSU any time soon.


I would say he wins a Natty in four years or less.
Posted by Lexis Dad
Member since Apr 2025
5638 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:37 am to
Drugs are bad
Posted by Chris ALL Capps
Member since Jan 2024
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Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:40 am to
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23: Michigan


So when it fits your bullshite narrative we count the one title mired in a cheating scandal?
Posted by Craw_Dad
Member since Oct 2025
30 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:42 am to
Settle down. It's okay to debate someone who has a different opinion without calling their argument shite, incompetent or labeling them a troll. We don't do well when we exit our echo chambers.

I'm basing my argument on 3 years- 75% of NIL's total existence.

I agree that it's difficult to have certainty after a few years, but we can talk about things in the moment. No rules saying you have to hold assessment for a decade.

The early returns for the SEC aren't promising.

Great SEC football games week in and week out. Maybe that should be the standard and how the conference is judged. I can buy that. I loved the conference regular season. The best ever, IMO. But not the dominant teams of the past.
This post was edited on 12/24/25 at 8:43 am
Posted by Jimmy Montrose
Lake Highlands
Member since Aug 2021
1424 posts
Posted on 12/24/25 at 8:45 am to
Would love for the OP to be right. SEC supremacy is boring.
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