The SEC way is hyping up its conference as the toughest football conference, then scheduling nothing but soft-ass cupcake opponents for the non-conference schedule. You know, football greats like the Citadel, Troy State, North Texas, Georgia Southern, and Central Michigan, to name a few.

This way, by only playing one another and only perenial losers, there’s no way of showing that the SEC is overhyped. There’s no standard to compare the SEC to other conferences (who willingly play each other in non-conference games. Like how the Pac-10 and Big-12 are scheduling matchups for the following couple of seasons).

Not that SEC teams come out here and take a lumpin’ (read: Cal’s drubbing of Tennessee in Strawberry Canyon).

I can already hear the SEC Circle Jerkers whining: “LSU is the national champs! Florida was the year before! Tebow is the Heisman winner! We beat Ohio State in the national title game twice!”

Wow, you beat up on the Big-10 champ. The team that faced stiff competition from the likes of Northwestern, Iowa, and Minnesota. Oh my God! I’m sooooo impressed! Hey, maybe you SEC guys can go punch some kids in wheelchairs to show how big, strong, and brave you are!

But let’s run some numbers. Since 1980, SEC teams have been the consensus (or as close to consensus as possible) national champ 7 times (6 if you discount LSU’s ‘03 title that U$C claims is a split title). By comparison, the ACC has claimed 7 titles, the Big-12 also with 7, the Big-10 with 4, the Pac-10 with 2 (3 if you count U$C’s ‘03 split title claim), the Mountain West has 1, and Notre Dame (an independent) has 1 (if you add them up, it runs a bit over due to a couple of seasons when more than one team finished undefeated and the major polls split).

So, um, based on the numbers, the SEC has been no more dominant than the ACC or the Big-12. And those conferences have the balls to take on Pac-10 and Big-10 teams in non-conference play.

Circle jerking and playing weak teams: that’s the SEC way.

...that BN admins have also secretly paid off the IRS and DOJ so that when we shuffle your under-the-table BN fees to the WWL, there will be no paper trail.

Also, I heard from three wealthy and influential alumni that N has the NSA listening in to all SEC-related conversations and that there’s a CIA assassination squad on BN’s payroll to take out any MSM journalists who would support SMQ and the SEC Circle Jerker’s position re: our football team and expectations.

But shh, don’t let SMQ find out or he’ll blow it all for us.