It’s early, even for them.
The anti-SEC folks usually attempts to make their presence felt at various points in the postseason because when a target is exposed, that’s the natural time to take aim. So far this bowl season, the SEC has been exposed by virtue of Texas A&M losing to Miami, Mizzou losing to Virginia and LSU losing to Houston. Shoot, LSU was so unwatchable that new coach Lane Kiffin didn’t even want to stay for the entire game. Clearly all of those 1-score bowl losses by SEC teams should define the entire conference at a time when we know that all bowl games are created equally.
Oh, and let’s just throw in Oklahoma blowing a 17-point lead as being “exposed” while conveniently ignoring what conference the competition emerged from. Ole Miss got a lopsided Playoff victory, but that doesn’t count because it came against a Group of 5 team that wasn’t one of the best 12 teams in the country.
There. Am I doing this right?
Let’s ask the people in the replies of this post from the Reddit College Football account on Twitter:
• 2-4 in the postseason • 1-3 against other conferences• Winless against other P4sThe SEC was a 1-bid league lol
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) December 28, 2025Man, that tells the full story. It looks like Georgia was the only team that deserved to be in the field, and 11-1 teams like Ole Miss and A&M were clearly frauds because of the lack of quality wins (noted voice of reason Danny Kanell argued after the Miami loss that A&M would’ve been 8-4 in the ACC).
And hey, Alabama should’ve never made the field in the first place after becoming the first SEC team ever to win 4 consecutive games vs. AP Top 25 teams without any byes or extra rest, which included handing Georgia its first home loss at night since 2009. Alabama clearly just beat a bunch of fraudulent, overrated SEC teams. Never mind the fact that those 4 SEC teams who were part of that stretch (Georgia, Vanderbilt, Mizzou and Tennessee) went a combined 33-8 vs. non-Alabama teams and all of them won their respective Power Conference matchups.
Speaking of that, let’s rewind to the regular season. As in, that period in time in which the SEC got every benefit of the doubt because the decision makers in college football couldn’t fathom a world in which the SEC didn’t have an automatic spot reserved in the national championship.
Let’s actually turn back to Reddit, where we can all analyze each Power Conference record in nonconference play during the regular season (including Notre Dame):
SEC: 12-6 (.667) Big 12: 8-6 (.571) Big Ten: 5-7 (.417) ACC: 7-19 (.269)You see, despite the notion that the SEC can do no wrong in the eyes of the selection committee/ESPN/people with a financial stake, there’s at least some data to back up these things. Like, the SEC might’ve been called “fraudulent” based on Alabama’s blowout loss to Florida State, but it still went 6-4 vs. the ACC in the regular season.
Could you argue that Miami and Virginia evening the score vs. the SEC in the postseason has been huge for the ACC’s national reputation? Sure, but tell me this. Was a 7-19 record vs. Power Conference teams in nonconference play supposed to prop up the ACC? And was the fact that the ACC entered the 2025 postseason searching for its first Playoff win of the 2020s supposed to be ignored? You can answer that yourself. Personally, I’d say things like that and crowning a 5-loss conference champ (who also lost to that aforementioned Tulane team that didn’t count in favor of Ole Miss) probably shaped some of that discussion.
Why was the Big 12 a 1-bid league again? And should the Big 12 have been getting the love that the SEC has after an 8-6 showing in nonconference play vs. Power Conference foes?
Perhaps, but the SEC went 3-0 vs. the Big 12, which included Mississippi State beating last year’s Big 12 champion, Arizona State. Also, fair or not, we’re talking about a conference that has 1 Playoff victory in the first 11 years of this system, and it was followed by a 65-7 loss to an SEC champ … you get it. It probably would’ve taken a 12-6 nonconference showing vs. Power Conference foes for the Big 12 to have a legitimate argument about unfair treatment as a 1-bid league.
Ah, but now is the part where you tell me that the Big Ten is far and away the best conference in the sport this year
After all, the conference has the last 2 national champs and unlike the SEC, it has multiple national title contenders left in the field as the quarterfinal round approaches. Ohio State (+186), Indiana (+325) have the most likely odds to win it all, while Oregon (+1000) is 5th behind Georgia (+400) and Texas Tech (+800).
The problem is that the only real 2025 data point to judge the Big Ten and SEC side by side came back in August when Ohio State beat Texas 14-7. Alabama walloping Wisconsin wasn’t a good barometer for that discussion, and neither was Oklahoma handling Michigan in Bryce Underwood’s first career road start with a team that clearly had behind-the-scenes turmoil. Lord knows you’d hear the anti-SEC crowd speak loudly about those games if the results were flipped, but let’s instead look ahead to the Playoff, AKA the thing that’ll actually settle this debate.
The anti-SEC crowd will find a way to make sure that an all-SEC Sugar Bowl reflects how weak the conference was, regardless of how it plays out. Where it gets extremely juicy is if the Big Ten champion rolls in Pasadena. If Indiana beats Alabama in the Rose Bowl, the anti-SEC crowd will be quick to point out that the big, bad Tide will have suffered 3 consecutive postseason losses in matchups vs. Big Ten foes. It’ll argue that the SEC’s last remaining team in the field, Georgia, only got a semifinal berth because of a favorable quarterfinal draw, much like the anti-SEC crowd argued that Texas got bailed out by weird seeding when it faced off with Big 12 champion Arizona State.
Alternatively, an Alabama win against Indiana will force the anti-SEC crowd into the take that the Tide wasn’t worthy of making the field in the first place. As in, it’s the selection committee’s fault that Alabama got so many free passes to the Rose Bowl, and that it shouldn’t matter that it was the team’s 8th matchup vs. a team ranked inside the top 25 of the AP Poll (7 of which were in the top 15) because the AP Poll is SEC-biased anyway.
That’s the way this works.
The SEC cannot win this week. It can merely lose its stranglehold that it had on college football for the majority of the 21st century.
To be fair, yes, the SEC has invited detractors with its annual attempts at flexing (something every conference does), which most recently included a 7-page document to show why the Playoff needed more emphasis on strength of schedule and specifically, why the SEC gauntlet is 1-of-1. It’d be weird if nobody rolled their eyes at that. We all get that it just means more. After that cringey, self-awareness-lacking move, it also just means more opportunities to poke holes in the SEC.
Bowl-season losses — no matter what the 2025 context is — will present those opportunities for those who seek them.
That is, if you’re doing this right.
Tip of the cap to the anti-SEC crowd, which is out earlier than ever this bowl season Saturday Down South.
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