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Originally Posted by shawn18

You are right.......I was wrong......they have the last 5 National Title's. I am not biased at all. Hell I pull for Notre Dame........I know we suck and I dont bring up their 13 National Titles in my discussion. I am just saying what is true. Top to bottom the SEC is the best conference in college football. Argue all you want.............. OU is the best team in the Big......Whatever the hell they are now................That doesn't take away from the power of the SEC though. You are talking about a team....I am talking about a conference.

This is what mystifies me most about SEC fans - it's how they see the college football world. With the exception of Alabama, no other SEC team has had consistent success over the years. So the non-Alabama fans of the SEC put conference first, since they have little else to brag about year in and year out. Conferences appear, disappear and realign over time. The only reason to hide behind the veil of a conference is if your team isn't earning recognition on it's own.
When John Blake was coaching (if you can call it that) at OU during the 90's, and we went 12-22 (our worst stint in history), I wasn't chanting BIG12-BIG12-BIG12 because Nebraska was fielding some of the best teams in the history of the sport. Even then, as a boy, I still cheered for my Sooners every Saturday as we got embarrassed on the field, hoping our fate would turn.