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The Toughest Conference

earle coachingWhat is the toughest conference? 

No Question!

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Everyone discusses what is actually the toughest conference in the nation - even some of the greatest football minds disagree - but most will say the SEC is far superior these days.
And I would tend to agree.  But I still have a few questions:

1) How many times do they play opponents out of the South?

2) How many times do they play opponents from the North IN the North, say, during the months of November, December and January - and do it OUTSIDE!

3) How often to they schedule a tough opponent from another conference like the Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific Coast Conference?  Or even Notre Dame?

And when you place the SEC as the #1 Toughest Conference, you then need to ask.....Who's second??

That is a difficult question because now you need to talk offense, defense, special teams, talent, toughness, ect.  And I would lump them all together as AVERAGE at best.

The SEC excells in TOUGHNESS and overall team SPEED.  Their big guys are exceptionally fast AND tough! 

When you look at sacks, blocked kicks and interceptions - WATCH OUT!  They produce!  They make plays!  Enough said!

If not the SEC as #1 - make your case for any of the other conferences.

Or better yet - let's just catch up and surpass them this season!

New Season!  New Teams!  New Coaches!  New Schedules!  New Player!  New Challenges!

Go Bucks

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Comments (6)
6 Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:54
gobucks82
People couple the Florida and LSU NC games like bookends but the LSU game was much more competitive and we could have won that game. We made some bonehead mistakes but were not dominated like the Florida game. It was a 14 point game and LSU scored late.I agree that top to bottom that the SEC is currently the best overall conference but also believe that the best teams in the other conferences can compete with the best in the SEC any given year.
5 Thursday, 19 November 2009 13:53
gobucks82
Everybody said that Miami was too fast for OSU in the 2002 NC game also. One thing that proved true was that it doesn't matter how fast you are if you cannot get going. Our defense in that game kept them bottled up very well most of the game. I believe that the speed difference was overstated anyway. Our defense was a fast as any I saw that year and Gamble and Jenkins didn't look out matched to me. Neither did Clarret when he chased Sean Taylor down from behind and ripped the ball from his hands. In the Florida NC game, on the opening kickoff, Ted Ginn looked like the fastest guy on the field. Too bad it was his only play in the game. Percy Harvin has wicked speed and there d-line definitely kicked out o-lines around but that was more than speed. I believe that game to have been a situation where Florida played their best game of the year the same night that OSU played their worse game of the year.
4 Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:22
llsmitty11
And if we are going back to 2006 then lets take a look at the Fiesta Bowl in which Boise St. beat an extremely favored Oklahoma team. Plus Utah boasted an undefeated season last year... Something NOONE in the SEC or Big 12 can say they did
3 Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:19
llsmitty11
I hope you are joking... The Mountain West already competed with (and beat) the SEC. just look at last years Sugar Bowl! Utah dominated the ENTIRE game against Alabama! btw im not trying to say the Big Ten can compete with the SEC, only the MWC/WAC Super conference haha
2 Thursday, 03 September 2009 19:08
lynnthia
You are crazy! They still couldn't compete with the SEC! The other conferences just don't have the speed - as evidenced by OSU vs. Florida in the National Championship game in 2006. No one thought Florida had a chance and their speed just killed OSU!
1 Thursday, 03 September 2009 18:56
llsmitty11
If the Mountain West took Hawaii, Boise St and Fresno St from the WAC and added them in with Utah, BYU, and TCU; that would be by far the toughest conference
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