I don't think I have to apologize for my love of the Big 10 conference, but the SEC has to be the toughest... Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, Auburn, Tennessee are all programs that could contend for the NC any season. The Big 10 has only three such programs:
OSU, Michigan and Penn State. It's not without cause that Miami, Florida State and Va Tech went with the Big East and ACC and not with the SEC. I'm kicking my self in the shorts for not calling Tennessee's "upset" of Cal. I called it in an e-mail but didn't "officially" call it on the upsets thread.
Go Nittany Lions! Go Bucks!!