"The SEC schedule is challenging enough without this tough out-of-conference schedule."
This is just too funny. First the guy talks about how the East is down, and they managed to miss the best West teams, then he tries to say how tough the SEC schedule is. But the best part is how he calls their joke, in the playoff era, of an OOC schedule tough when they don't have a single Power 5 opponent.
But what else can you expect from a team that bragged about how great they were when they could only win 9 games, when 4 of those wins were against the worst OOC schedule ever played by a power 5 team and the East truly was down.
Oh but wait thats right, the East is down now and was at its peak then and they weren't afraid to play anyone, CJF bought out those OOC games because those teams weren't worthy and replaced them with the best teams that the rest of the SEC was "scared" to schedule. They were just so good then that they made the rest of the East look down and the East and OOC teams they played only finished bad because they were so thoroughly destroyed by the awesomeness that Vandy was then.