http://q.usatoday.com/2014/08/13/sec-network-bob-stoops-best-conference-big-12/
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Stoops’ original point is that (A) SEC teams are generally underscheduled, (B) the SEC’s punching bag teams are just as soft as everyone else’s and (C) just because the SEC won the seven previous BCS titles doesn’t mean it will play at that level automatically.
Stoops pointed out that Missouri made the SEC title game last year and that Texas A&M won at Alabama in 2013. “And they weren’t overwhelming in the Big 12,” Stoops said.
Stoops also pointed that the Big 12 teams all play each other and the 14-team SEC does not. Alabama dodged both Florida and South Carolina in 2012 and 2013, its most recent BCS national title years, and only ran into Georgia in the 2013 SEC title game.