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The SEC seem to be back on top of the Power 5 this season.
Only three weeks in, and yet the bulk of the regular season OOC games have been played. Like Tennessee, most teams are getting down to in-conference matches for most of the rest of the year. There will be a trickle of OOC results in the coming weeks, and a tiny bit of Power 5-on-Power 5 action (Notre Dame has to play someone), but aside from a flurry of ACC-SEC matches at the end of the season (Florida-FSU, UGa-Ga Tech, Kentucky-Louisville, South Carolina-Clemson), the heavy flow is behind us.
So how're things?
SEC: 28-5 (85%) against all OOC opponents ... 6-3 vs Power 5 (only conference with a winning record in P5-vs-P5 play)
ACC: 24-7 (77%) against all OOC ... but only 3-5 vs Power 5 competition
B12: 19-7 (73%) versus all OOC ... 4-6 against Power 5
PAC: 22-10 (69%) versus all OOC ... 3-4 against Power 5
B10: 24-12 (67%) against OOC competitors ... 6-6 against Power 5
Notre Dame rounds out the P5, with a 3-0 record thus far this season (2-0 against Power 5)
Here's how bad it was for the B10 and PAC at the bottom of the heap this weekend: these two Power 5 conferences lost games against the likes of Temple, Troy, Akron, San Diego State, Nevada, and Fresno State. Their Power 5 woes included losses to powerhouses Kansas and Missouri. Folks who know the numbers will not claim that the SEC East is the weak division of the P5 this year; there are some real doozies out there, particularly in the soft, soft underbelly of the B10. PAC isn't far behind, either.
Tough weekend for those two conferences, and not a great year so far.
Things could turn around. And the bowl season could turn things on their heads.
But so far, measuring Power 5 conferences against each other, the SEC is back on top in a big way--a place we haven't been for the past two seasons.
Only three weeks in, and yet the bulk of the regular season OOC games have been played. Like Tennessee, most teams are getting down to in-conference matches for most of the rest of the year. There will be a trickle of OOC results in the coming weeks, and a tiny bit of Power 5-on-Power 5 action (Notre Dame has to play someone), but aside from a flurry of ACC-SEC matches at the end of the season (Florida-FSU, UGa-Ga Tech, Kentucky-Louisville, South Carolina-Clemson), the heavy flow is behind us.
So how're things?
SEC: 28-5 (85%) against all OOC opponents ... 6-3 vs Power 5 (only conference with a winning record in P5-vs-P5 play)
ACC: 24-7 (77%) against all OOC ... but only 3-5 vs Power 5 competition
B12: 19-7 (73%) versus all OOC ... 4-6 against Power 5
PAC: 22-10 (69%) versus all OOC ... 3-4 against Power 5
B10: 24-12 (67%) against OOC competitors ... 6-6 against Power 5
Notre Dame rounds out the P5, with a 3-0 record thus far this season (2-0 against Power 5)
Here's how bad it was for the B10 and PAC at the bottom of the heap this weekend: these two Power 5 conferences lost games against the likes of Temple, Troy, Akron, San Diego State, Nevada, and Fresno State. Their Power 5 woes included losses to powerhouses Kansas and Missouri. Folks who know the numbers will not claim that the SEC East is the weak division of the P5 this year; there are some real doozies out there, particularly in the soft, soft underbelly of the B10. PAC isn't far behind, either.
Tough weekend for those two conferences, and not a great year so far.
Things could turn around. And the bowl season could turn things on their heads.
But so far, measuring Power 5 conferences against each other, the SEC is back on top in a big way--a place we haven't been for the past two seasons.
