re: When will ESPN help out other SEC schools besides LSU and Bama?

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AUburn wanted no part of USC that year. As much as i hate the trojans, that team would have destroyed any team they faced by 3-4 touchdowns.

Auburn was done a favor by not playing..and it may have helped the SEC champ in future years. You know voters saying, if only we had sent auburn there, maybe it would have been a game.....

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Maybe, maybe not. That was a great USC team, no question, and Auburn certainly has gotten a lot more mileage out of the "victim of injustice" than they would have out of "victim of Leinart and Bush." But that wasn't a shabby Auburn team. More talented overall than the 2010 team, and it almost certainly wouldn't have been the 35 point whooping (USC Vacated™) that OU suffered. Eh, it's all academic now. It's still indisputable that Auburn had as good an argument as any other team, and probably better than OU.

OTOH, you do make a good point about the future. Arguing that the SEC is now undefeated in 8 tries in the title game is hella compelling when trying to get a team in each year, especially when the playoffs come.