re: Winning the SEC East back to back is easy, the West, not so much

If you can grab a conference title trophy you grab it under any circumstance. Rant bickering aside, the conference pride here is such that most would defend the conference champion's subsequent bowl performance whatever that might be and try to cast it in the best light. And even if they didn't, mizzou fans wouldn't care we would just circle jerk around the sec trophy.