SEC Haters Rejoice: 2011 May Be Your Year

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The Alabama Crimson Tide won the Citi BCS national championship on Thursday night, just as I and many others predicted.

Another team representing the SEC brought home the ultimate prize in college football, the fourth straight year a team from the nation’s best football conference has done so.

The Southeastern Conference is now 6-0 in BCS title games since the system was first implemented in 1998.

But for those that have come to hate the SEC, January 8, 2011 may be the dawn of a new era in college football, at least for one year.

That day is the next date when a new BCS national champion will be crowned and it’s very possible a team from a conference other than the SEC may win the crystal trophy.

A quick scan of returning players on contending teams shows a number of schools outside the SEC who could be strong enough to win a BCS national championship.

Oregon, Iowa, Ohio State, Texas, TCU, Boise State and Georgia Tech will field very good teams next season. Southern California can never be counted out, Nebraska looks resurgent and Miami will be very good, as will Penn State.

Of course, you can’t can’t out an SEC squad either. Alabama will enter next year as the preseason No.1 team. Can the Crimson Tide do what the Florida Gators couldn’t do this year? Can the Tide roll to a second straight BCS national championship?

Speaking of the Gators, a team with that much talent can never be forgotten, regardless of who’s coaching them. LSU, Auburn, Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina will be improved next season too.

But for those teams that have legitimate chances of getting to Glendale next year, more teams from the Big 12, Pac-10 and Big Ten will have better opportunities than an SEC team.

At some point, this incredible run of SEC teams winning the BCS national championship will come to an end and that ending may come in Glendale next year.

For the SEC haters, that day can’t come soon enough. The day a team from outside the SEC wins the BCS title will be a day of rejoicing, dancing in the streets, rioting, looting, pillaging and committing various acts of violence to commemorate the occasion.

Then again, that day may not come next year or in the foreseeable future.

We may hear chants of S-E-C once again after Alabama or Florida or LSU or another team from college football’s best conference hoist the BCS national championship trophy.

Come to think of it, if the SEC wins a fifth straight BCS title next year, that may cause the haters to riot, loot, pillage…

The SEC. We own the BCS. Get over it haters.