Interesting to see how fan attitudes in the SEC are turning to panic.

The SEC Confronts a New College Football Opponent: Panic - WSJ

“Even being an SEC guy, the Big Ten keeps getting better and better,” said Jordan Rodgers,

a former Vanderbilt quarterback and now a college football analyst.

“The SEC is different. The Big Ten, you’ve just got your big three: Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon. That’s it. Penn State? They’re mediocre.”

Ever since playing for a national champion instead of voting for one, the system has clearly been slanted in the SEC direction.

Start with only 8 conference games. Add in preseason biased rankings and top with ESPN being conference broadcasting and very unclear committee voting, you get a definite SEC advantage.

When Natty's were voted on more conferences won more frequently.

Now that everyone can throw $$ around, it should make it more difficult for the SEC to win it all. Until every conference plays same number of games in conference, the SEC will get the preseason ranking advantage.

Got to admit, reading about their 'panic' is hysterical.

Wait A Minute! I thought every SEC schedule was a brutal challenge like no other in the known universe!

Wisconsin, Rutgers, Northwestern, and Purdue would be happy to swap schedules with Mizzou, Ole Miss, and Tennessee.

The man below is laughing, even without a Drink in hand. 😁

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Missouri’s soft 2025 schedule could be their ticket to th...

At the start of the 2024 College Football season, Eli Drinkwitz had his most talented roster yet at Missouri making the Tigers a College Football Playoff conten

Finebaum, who has spent months listening to SEC fans vent about the 2024 season on his radio show, insists that the majority of college football followers aren’t ready to write off the conference just yet. But another underwhelming season would leave them truly shaken.

“I understand the narrative, but for now I think it’s way premature. A two-year sample is simply not enough,” he said. “[But] if we’re sitting here having a cup of coffee at the national championship game and the SEC isn’t in it, that will be the moment. The angst will come.”

A "two years sample" isn't enough, but 3, that would be definitive? What if it's 3, then 4? Gosh PAWL, what happens then?

'Facts are stubborn things.' John Adams

On3's list of the most difficult and the easiest out-of-conference (OOC) schedules in 2025 does not bolster Greg Sankey's argument that the SEC should continue to play eight conference games and four games OOC.

Florida is the sole SEC team with one of the eleven most difficult OOC schedules. Deservedly so as the Gators play Miami and Florida State OOC. No B1G teams make the list. However, one-third of Michigan, Ohio State, and Wisconsin's OOC schedules are against SEC teams, Oklahoma, Texas, and Alabama.

In 2025, two SEC teams play 10 Power 4 opponents, and Florida plays 11. 13 B1G teams play 10 Power 4 opponents.

The SEC captures six of the 11 easiest OOC schedules: Vanderbilt, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Ole Miss, and Auburn. The B1G's Indiana, Maryland, and Penn State make the list.

It's frustrating, but not surprising, that the majority of 'sports journalists' report Greg Sankey's SEC SOS stuff as gospel.

On3

Toughest, easiest nonconference schedules of 2025 season

With the season just five weeks away, On3 is looking at the toughest and easiest nonconference schedules of the 2025 season.