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CBS’s Gregg Doyel Claims the SEC is Over-Rated—Is He Accurate?

November 3, 2009

By Jeremy Eakin (Jseakin)

Following Alabama’s close win over Tennessee 2 weeks ago there were some articles written about how they didn’t deserve to be #2 nor Florida #1 for that matter and that the SEC as a whole was vastly over rated.

One of those articles really caught my attention so I set out to either disprove or prove that this writer’s opinion held merit.

Is he right? Am I looking just through Crimson colored glasses and not seeing the truth?

Well the best thing I could come up with was to look at the numbers. Given a large enough sample size in my opinion numbers just can’t lie. After a bit of research I was able to compile some numbers that pretty much tell their own story. Below you will see listed a layout that consists of every team in all of the major 6 conferences and also the Mountain West thrown in. Next to each team is where they rank nationally in Total Defense, Total Offense, and also their Strength of Schedule.

The numbers are grouped as followed: On the far left every team is grouped according to their respective conference; each team has an overall average which consists of their total defense, offense, and SOS. Also each major category has been averaged out for the conference as a whole and then those categories are averaged together to give each conference an overall average.

The center column is the ranking for the conference in each major category as well as the overall ranking once all of the categories have been averaged out. The last column is solely to show how each individual team averages out in order and not meant to be a ranking system.

I set out to do this simply to compare the conferences and not to try and develop a ranking system that allowed for interpretation or opinion. These numbers do not include win/loss, home/away, weather or what the team ate game day morning that may or may not help them play better.

Enjoy!

Stats from the 2009 season—Div. 1 play (requires Excel)

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