The 7th/8th best SEC team is a touchdown underdog vs. the 4th/5th best ACC team

We lost to a 3 win Mizzou team and also got beat by Auburn by 3,250 points this year.

+7 is being polite

Hogs win by 12

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This is not a troll thread against any particular team. The SEC has a decent number of underdogs this bowl season.

Does this seem hard to believe to anyone else? Not that Virginia Tech is favored against Arkansas, but that the SEC has fallen off this much seemingly so quickly. It's hard to believe this scenario occurring 3-4 years ago.

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To be honest a lot of SEC teams played fairly crappy football this year and the bowl match ups were not kind.

Arkansas, for example, is going against a team that does exactly what we are terrible at stopping and its practically a home game for V. Tech. Its a horrible match up for us.

I think the conference will bounce back but the days of winning just because you are from the SEC are over I think. Hopefully SC and Arkansas both pull off wins today and get the conference back on track.

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SEC has fallen off

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Yes, the SEC has gone downhill in the last few years and will continue to do so. You can't maintain 3-5 title contenders year in and year out (which we used to have) when one team is winning all the conference titles. Look how shitty the Big Ten was when Ohio State was winning it every year. Look how shitty the Big XII is with Oklahoma winning it almost every year. Look how shitty the Pac 12 was when USC was winning it every year. Look how shitty the ACC was in the '90s when Florida State was winning it every year. Look how shitty the SEC was in the '70s when Alabama was winning it every year.

The SEC had its strongest run during a period when no team repeated as SEC champions from 1999 through 2014. When we had Florida, Alabama, LSU, Georgia and Auburn all taking turns winning the conference title, the SEC was unquestionably the strongest conference in college football. To maintain powerhouse status, you have to win titles at least some of the time. When only one team is doing that, there is only going to be one powerhouse.

Gone are the days of multiple schools having elite coaches. Now it's Saban and 13 scrubs.

I would expect VT to win by more than 7 tonight. They're facing the worst Arkansas defense in my lifetime and one that can't stop a mobile QB if they had 22 guys on the field. Evans should have a field day and hopefully lead to some changes on our defensive staff.

The only hope we have to stay in this game is if the offense can keep up in a shootout. I'm not as confident in that happening as I am in Evans putting up career numbers against us.

This delusional narrative and irrational sense of self importance is what causes most college football fans to loathe the schools in the SEC.

Congrats on the crazy.

I have no idea what to think of Arkansas. They can win this game, but they could lose by 20-30 points and it wouldn't surprise me.

Such a schizophrenic team this year.