ESS-EEE-CEE Propaganda

by Slate Quicksilver

It can be hard at times to keep the pro-SEC sentiment I feel down while living in Big Ten country.  "What's that?  Oh yeah... Michigan has won a lot of National Championships.  Hey when did they win most of them?  Yeah, I agree, I mean it's still a championship even if 10 of 11 of them weren't in the modern era and before the 1940s it was perfectly acceptable to play local high schools and count them as wins in your program...  yeah sure those all count.  Oh... you're a Purdue fan and you're pointing this out?"  (totally was a conversation I had last year)  Thank goodness Midwesterners are short on picking up on sarcasm.

I try to keep a lid on the SEC-boner that I constantly have to shift my pants around to counteract because it's rude to gloat.  Plus, I try to avoid being one of those "ESS-EEE-CEE" chanting people at bowl games.  Honestly, I wish a slow death to all of my SEC opponents (lulz @ arkansas).  Yes, our conference is better than yours, but it's always been my feeling that dominance is not something that needs to be lorded over the lower, quivering masses.  Commoners should just know that they are bring dominated and accept it.  College football isn't yet at that stage, but it's getting there.

It's with this in mind that I read an article like this and I facepalm.  The top 4 playoff is an obvious nod to this past year when the SEC had 4 teams in the top 10 of the BCS before the bowls started and other, more geographically located in the upper Midwest conferences had 1 (Wisconsin, clinging for dear life after being bailed out by the refs in the first annual B10 championship game) and another midwest-ish based conference with whom they are more friendly towards had 2 (OK State and K-State).  It's also a nice middle finger to the Pac12, showing that the SEC-Big 12 relationship is for realz and that they've already decided that the Pac12 and Big 10 are an item (or shortly will be).  And on top of all of that, it's a disowning of the ACC and Big East because they know that an ACC or Big East team will never, ever be ranked in the top 4 at the end of the season.

"I think it needs to be the four best teams in the country. I don't think it needs to be the conference champions because in our league we might have four of the best teams in the country."  --Will Muschamp

Coach Boom, we need to talk.  You grew up in Gainesville.  You know how this goes.  The second we start talking game is the second we lose to Ole Miss in 2008 when Houston Nutt and Jevan Snead OH GOD WHY ARE WE RUNNING HIM UP THE MIDDLE ON 4TH AND 1 JUST RUN A TOSS SWEEP MAKE THE NIGHTMARES STOP HOW COULD HE MISS LOUIS MURPHY WIDE OPEN JESUS CHRIST (/dies  /diesforever).

The confidence this man exudes is on the same level as the entropy that Les Miles exudes.  There are times I would almost agree with that, but come on, Champ, what about the other big fish?  USC is going to come off their trade embargo soon.  Oregon runs a death machine of an offense (note:  offer not valid in National Championship games).  Oklahoma is one soulcrushing loss a year away from the top every year.  Michigan is the best team that has ever existed in any sport ever including the Central Red Army, Brazilian National Soccer Team combined.

"It's just like politics and self-interest," Saban said. "Somebody wants to create a circumstance that's going to help their situation or conference. That's not in the best interest of college football."  -- Nick Saban

On second thought.  Let's keep the BCS exactly how it is.  I don't trust anything that man says or does.