A quick perusal of the SEC west schedules yields Alabama over WVU and Auburn over K State. Color me fucking impressed.
Well, that and the fact that Georgia over Arky is the only game an SEC West team has lost outside its division. They're something like 32-1.
This will work itself out, but the SEC does benefit from a few things unrelated to ESPN:
1. They are smart enough to play conference games early. When other teams are playing OOC cupcakes, you're getting Texas A&M vs. South Carolina - which causes an overreaction (as we saw) for the winner.
2. That moves their cupcakes to late in the season, when NOBODY dings them for a cupcake win.
3. By only playing 8 conference games, they are essentially two separate conferences. Playing 2 of 7 teams in the other division doesn't mean squat, especially when the East is as bad as it is. But everyone thinks of the "SEC" as a whole, and so a team like South Carolina will be given much more credit than they are due.
Of all the West teams, the one I think is overrated is actually Alabama, and that's not an ESPN thing, that's a historical dominance thing.
