Actually, the SEC has destroyed college football. If they had not expanded and stolen Arkansas from the Southwest Conference (and then the subsequent thefts from other conferences), then:
1) None of the reckless conference expansions and realignments would have occurred,
2) There would still be a Southwest Conference,
3) The Big 8 & Pac 8 would have just 8 teams - not 11 or 12,
4) The B1G would still be the Big 10 and acutally have just ten teams - not 14,
5) Big LEast football would never have been created, proclaimed to be important by East Coast media and then dismantled back to its proper level of unimportance,
6) Every conference would actually have ANNUAL rivalries where their teams play EVERY other team EVERY year. Contrary to your opinion above - how can every team in the SEC be a rival if the teams don't play every year or for several years?
7) There would be no need for conference championship games and conference titles would be decided on the field during regular season games,
8) There would have never been a need to split conferences into divisions with phony geographical distinctions (Missouri in the SEC East?) or Legends & Leaders (what the hell is that?)
9) Nebraska would have never had an opportunity to play for a national championship after finishing 2nd (3rd?) during the Big XII regular season,
10) There would be no need for the NCAA's stupid overtime rules and games could still result in ties - as God intended,
11) All bowl games would still have their affiliated conference champions,
12) There would be only 4 major bowl games
13) The Fiesta Bowl would be just a minor bowl game and the Cotton Bowl would still be a major bowl
14) But more minor bowl games COULD be important - as an example an undefeated BYU team would make their confernce's affiliation and the Holiday Bowl important as that game could have "mythical national championship" implications,
15) No bowls would have affiliations with confernces' 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th or even 8th place teams - each bowl committee would actually compete to invite the best possible teams, regardless of conference
15) As a result, all minor bowl games would be more entertaining than now
16) Boise State would still be a novelty team playing on a novelty blue field,
17) College football season would end on January 1 - not 2 or 3 weeks later, AND
18) We would never have heard of any of the computer geek morons like Jeff Anderson, the author of this smug, bleating article, and their nonsensical computer rankings!!!
I understand the problems with those that are not part of the SEC. I’m happy, and I’m glad Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas A&M and Missouri are part of the conference. Many of these conferences had problems before the SEC expanded that the SEC was not responsible for.