re: SEC becomes first league to have 8 ranked teams in regular season top 25 poll.

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Here's how voting works in regard to the SEC:

Rank 'em all high before the season and have them play weak OOC games, so as to eliminate any reference point.

Here's where it gets fun. Have the overrated teams (overrated because of their preseason rankings) beat each other and then say,"Yeah, we lost. But look how highly rated that team was!" Following this line of thinking -- which the voters do -- the SEC can never really drop. Their wins are considered better than they really are and their losses more justifiable than they really are. It borders on the absurd.

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And the myth of the SEC goes on. Rank them all, so losses do not matter. "But Georgia lost to a ranked team"... Stanford loses on the road in a hostile environment & drops like a rock. Keep protecting your investment, ESPN.

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The fact that Oregon hasn't garnered more than five first place votes just shows how biased the AP Poll is toward the SEC and the East Coast in general.

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The only reason the SEC has 8 teams in the top 25 is because the SEC is over rated. Utah lost to Oregon st. in OT and UCLA by 7 points and were still not ranked.

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texas A&M moves up 2 spots after nearly losing to a unranked team......

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Proves how stupid these voters truly are ... How Florida is sniffing the Top 25 is a joke. 8 SEC teams with winning records ..."we better put them all in the top" ...with stellar wins vs bottom feeders and FCS teams. PAC has ten teams with winning records; 4 ranked ...see other conferences. Thank god for the playoffs; SEC will go back to second fiddle as they always were

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