I think Connelly writes the best CFB content on ESPN.

ESPN: 2026 CFB Preview - Bill Connelly

And for those of you wanting to argue conference superiority, some good red meat too:

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The SEC still produces the best average SP+ rating each season, usually by a comfortable margin, and 50% of its league games were decided by one score, tied with Conference USA for the highest percentage in the FBS. Its worst team had a better rating than the seven worst Big Ten teams; it's just that its best team was lower than the Big Ten's top three.

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Posted by WG_Dawg

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Posted on 7/21/26 at 11:34 am to Demosthenian

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Its worst team had a better rating than the seven worst Big Ten teams

this is the point mouth breathers never understand when it comes to the SEC being the best conference for 30 straight years. It's not that our best is better than everyone else's best (although more often than not, that's probably true). It's that the bottom half of the SEC is exponentially better than the bottom half of everyone else's leagues...BY A LOT.

A south carolina or vandy or MSU or or UK or arkansas may not set the world on fire but they are light years better than the typical northwestern/purdue/boston college/colorado state/etc of the world.

The big 10 will play a scheudle with 2 or 3 tough games out of 12 and then 9 gimmes. A random SEC team may have 2 or 3 elite tough games, 1 or 2 gimmes, then 5 more that are true tossups.

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