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

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When one coach in a conference becomes dominant, the others either get run off (Miles, Richt, soon to be Sumlin, Bielema, Jones

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I've just never agreed with this line of thinking. Obviously saban is about 100 miles ahead of anyone else in the league, but this whole mindset of "saban is so good that everyone else got run off" just isn't correct IMO. Richt was winning 10 games a year when saban entered the SEC, when saban left the SEC, and when saban returned to the SEC. Richt got fired because he'd been here 15 years and wasn't taking us to the next level and we hadn't won the conference in 10 years.

Yes, I realize the argument to that is going to be "well if it wasn't for saban richt may have won more" but that's not really the point. Unless you win the title, there's always going to be someone that got in your way. Our 02 title shot was lost because of zook. We had a great team in 05 but lost to 2 teams we shouldn't (neither of which were saban). In 07 we had a great team but lost to fulmer and spurrier. 2012 we lost directly because of/to saban, but richt didn't get fired after 2015 because of a game he lost 3 years prior.