Title Game - Sec Is Consistently Better - With A Little Bit Of Luck

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The malaise plaguing a football-viewing region outdoors the some upcoming quarters near the French Quarter has also been recognized since "SEC fatigue."

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The Southeastern Conference on Monday can be guaranteed it is sixth straight national title, also to get rid of it has the first, as the little league is hoarding both equally areas of the year's Bowl Championship Series game.

No.1 Louisiana State attempts it is third BCS crown since 2002 in opposition to a No. couple of Alabama squad that has not claimed it all since, um, 2009.

This is actually this kind of an inside work of which Nick Saban, coaching Alabama now, brought LSU for you to the particular BCS bill in 2003.

The SEC could earn their eighth concept from the 14-year BCS era. The SEC has have five distinct classes champions: LSU, Alabama, Florida , as well as .

"What makes our own league very, top notch is always that there is certainly loads of good competitors as well as a massive amount great competition," Saban mentioned Sunday at his last pregame reports conference.

The SEC has been, inarguably, college football's very best convention for a long time.

Why?

"We complete additional for being beneficial as compared with different teams," LSU facility P.J. Longeran offered.

Has the SEC made every in the biggest squads from the current era?

Well, no.

You would not moderately position one of the best BCS champion on the SEC prior to Miami regarding 2001, USC with 2004 as well as Florida State with 1999.

Alabama's subject crew with 2009, arguably the top SEC workforce in the era, might not exactly position in advance of ' 2005 team.

This year's LSU squad, in the event that it wins, would likely often be within the talk influenced by it's top-tier performance and also a killer non-conference schedule.

"The exclusively staff I've informed these not necessarily to help program seemed to be the Green Bay Packers," LSU Coach Les Miles quipped.

Mostly, though, that SEC has just already been constantly a lot better than most people else.

Part regarding it can be qualified extra and spending more.

"The graduation football reaches a higher level," Alabama preserving sponsor Kirby Smart said. "Coaches tend to be paid out more. So extra you pay the actual coaches, better top quality competitors people get, the higher high quality programs you get."