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Posted By: Bob

The thing that is so tough about the SEC is that you have the lower tier teams like Kentucky, South Carolina and Georgia who all won bowl games as underdogs and in convincing fashion. Florida blocked a field goal on the last play of the game to beat SC, needed an insane attempt to field a punt at the goal line by Arkansas and recovered in the end zone for a touchdown to beat the Hogs, lost to Auburn and had their hands full with Georgia. Michigan's big win was against Notre Dame and we saw what a joke ND is against LSU, USC, etc. Wisconsin's one big win was a 3 point bowl victory over the Hogs that was silver-plated. In the SEC you don't get to coast against the likes of Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Northwestern, Michigan State each week.
In the words of Joe Kines the defensive coordinator for Bama, "what coaches coming in to the SEC don't understand that is that they want to kill you and drink your blood."
Even a road game against Ole Miss is a hard place to win. There's nothing like the SEC, the fans make it death valley every week...