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Don't lose sight of the fact that, right now, the SEC is the premiere conference. That may not have always been true (in fact, I believe it hasn't always been true) and it may not be true in the future. But it's true right now.
All of this SEC conference jibber jabber is the fallout from Auburn getting snubbed for Oklahoma a few years back. I don't think Auburn would have faired any better against USC, but it's the perception of being slighted more than the act of being slighted that draws the ire of fans. There has been a 5 year SEC conference superiority campaign to make sure that the SEC champion never gets slighted again, whether they actually deserve a title shot or not. I happen to believe that in 2006, Florida probably didn't deserve their title shot (although they certainly made great use of it).
This is going to be the state of things until someone monkey stomps an SEC champion in the title game. Nobody seems to care when SEC teams get beat down in other games (ask Wisconsin, Penn State, Michigan, and Missouri), they just point to the title. If Georgia or some other SEC team makes it to the title game and get a thorough beating laid on them, things might change. If not, forget about it. SEC guys will claim that their team got jobbed for a title shot and the winner wasn't the 'real' MNC team. If they win, the obvious happens: the north invades the south with guns and literacy.
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