re: Win or lose today, how many posters thought that

Sans Bama, the SEC-West is medicore of late.

It just has more parity/balance per it's mediocrity, in contrast to the East, where Fla has taken their consistent regular greatness to an uber-dominant level of late, while UGA and Tenn have dropped from their usually consistent elite level play.

As good as Saban and Bama have been these last two years, they are doing it with a relatively young roster, with LSU's, Aub's, and Ark's recent drop in terms of their recent eras quality play these last two years, playing it's part in that Bama regular season sweep storyline.