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SEC’s Dominance Not Likely to End Soon
Published by MoonDog on January 11, 2009
With Florida’s win over Oklahoma in last Thursday’s BCS national championship game, the SEC has now won three straight BCS titles and four of the past six national championships.
Overall, the SEC has won five BCS titles, starting in 1998 when the BCS system first went into effect.
Florida May be Even Better Next Season
If you hate the Southeastern Conference – and many of you do – there will be more opportunities to express your disdain for college football’s dominant conference next season and many seasons beyond.
Regardless if you like the SEC or not, there’s no denying the league will produce at least one team to contend for the BCS national championship every year for the foreseeable future.
Even this past season when the SEC had a down year, the league still produced two teams with a legitimate shot at winning the national title. Only the Big 12 produced more than one team with a chance to win the BCS title this year.
Over the past six years, the SEC and Big 12 have put eight teams in the BCS championship game while the Big 10 and Pac 10 have produced two teams, with the Pac 10s representative being USC on both occasions.
The ACC and Big East haven’t put any of their league’s member teams in the title game over that time period.
The 2009-10 season won’t be much different than this past season. Florida may actually be better next season and Alabama will again be very strong. Add a resurgent LSU team into the mix and the SEC will have three teams that could be in Pasadena on January 7, 2010.
Outside of Texas and Oklahoma from the Big 12, USC from the Pac 10 and Ohio State from the Big 10, no other league will enter next season with a team that has a realistic shot at breaking the SECs dominance.
Alabama Will be Strong Again in 2009
How did the SEC achieve this stranglehold on the BCS title? Talented players, and more of them than any other conference.
For the past seven years the SEC has attracted more top-flight prep prospects than any other conference and 2009 will be no different.
At present, Scout has nine SEC teams among its top 25 recruiting rankings and Rivals lists eight among their top 25.
As a league, the SEC has risen to a status that allows its member teams to attract prep players from any state in the union. For teams like Florida, LSU and Georgia that already have plenty of homegrown talent, the need to go outside of their own states has become almost unnecessary.
But if those teams and others within the SEC want to recruit a player from Virginia or Utah, the league’s reputation is so strong it goes a long way in attracting a talented prospect.
The SECs recruiting prowess can be attributed to warmer weather, some of the best stadiums in college football and a lot of good coaches leading their programs. Also factoring into the league’s ability to attract talented players are the SECs television contracts and bowl tie-ins.
There is more year-round football in the southern states than any other region. There’s more 7-on-7 football, more passing camps and more time available to prepare for the coming season.
Les Miles Will Have LSU in the BCS Title Mix in 2009
The SECs contract with CBS guarantees the league of one national game of the week on free network television. Other than Notre Dame, no other conference in college football has such an arrangement.
Starting with the 2009 season, ESPN will produce an SEC package which again guarantees the league of sole exposure on one of several ESPN platforms.
The SEC has led all conferences in home game attendance for over a dozen years and that trend will certainly continue. With seven member teams having stadiums with seating capacities greater than 80,000, the SEC easily outdistances all other conferences.
Four current and one former SEC coaches have won national titles. Urban Meyer, who just won his second BCS championship with Florida, Nick Saban at LSU in 2004, Les Miles at LSU in 2008, Steve Spurrier with Florida in 1996 and Phil Fulmer with Tennessee in 1998.
Georgia’s Mark Richt has won two BCS bowls, Houston Nutt has turned Ole Miss around, Rich Brooks has guided Kentucky to three straight bowl wins and Bobby Johnson just took Vanderbilt to its first bowl since 1982.
If you don’t like the SEC, you’ll get a lot more opportunities to express your hatred in the coming years because the league’s dominance isn’t coming to an end any time soon.
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Patterson on Mon, 12th Jan 2009 06:43
Add to that coaching mix Petrino and the new guns at Miss St. and Tennessee, and the SEC really stats to become the NFL jr.
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