SEC! SEC!

At the end of the pre-Christmas holiday weekend, I am most unthankful to have to be returning to work tomorrow (although, thankful that I am employed). I am most heartily thankful for the slew of awesome games we revelers enjoyed. Only one dud (Florida v Florida State), and in almost every case, the correct team won.

I need to take a sidebar here regarding my picks. My 2-6 ATS, 4-4 overall showing is nothing short of disastrous. Any normal week, I’d consider shutting down the Mission. But I’ve got an airtight excuse this week. Even better than last week’s ‘I was sad about UGA’, because this one’s true.

In the spirit of the holidays, I was feeling generous, and somehow got it into my head that ACC champions could beat middlin’ and weak SEC teams. After all, the ACC is legit and also Southern. It’s not like they’re from the WAC or something. It saddened me to pick against my brethren, but one has to be realistic sometimes.

And reality is, the SEC is simply the best. A scrappy South Carolina team on their usual November losing streak and the worst Georgia team in recent memory each beat the best teams their conference could offer. Conversely, one of their middlin’ to bad teams didn’t even put in a showing against our best.

Intercoference records don’t mean much for comparative purposes. Yes, the SEC beats up on each other because we’re so good. But many other conferences do because they’re so bad. It’s hard to prove one way or the other. But when there are three rivalry match-ups from the same conferences, and all the victors are from one conference….that’s a stat it’s difficult to argue with.

Although haters will say that only proves the SEC is better than the ACC. Fair enough. Here’s how we stack up against the BCS conferences:

ACC- 4/2 (Georgia Tech beat our two worst teams)
Big East- n/a (pity)
Big 12- 1/1
Big East- 2/0
PAC 10- 2/1