re: If the SEC wins the natty and most of our bowls...

The media can differentiate between Bama et al. and the SEC at large. Bama has earned the right to boast freely and openly. Florida still has bragging rights from its recent string of dominance, but that's fading. Auburn can talk a bit. LSU certainly isn't weighing down the conference by any means.


The other ten teams simply haven't earned on the field the right to boast, and they certainly haven't earned the right to complain about their conference now being treated like other P5 conferences, i.e. prove to me that you're special or else I'll treat you like you aren't.

The removal of special treatment is not a punishment, nor is it reason to complain; in truth, the media is finally looking at the conference as a whole, and the addition of those data points indicates a regression toward the mean.