College football conference power rankings, Week 1: Big Ten or SEC?
Regardless of how many people dislike the SEC or are jealous of its success, the league is still the class of college football and will be until proven otherwise.
Six teams opened the season in the AP top 25 and one of them, Florida, put together a solid win Saturday over Miami. It wasn’t pretty and it could have been more lopsided, but the Gators beat a solid ACC opponent away from home. There is nothing wrong with that.
Alabama, the favorite to the win the conference again, opens with Duke in another ACC-SEC tilt. While Clemson has had success against Bama and the SEC, few others have. The presence of Georgia, which has established itself as an elite also helps.
The Big 12 has Oklahoma and Texas, the ACC has Clemson and the Big Ten has Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Michigan State. The SEC has Bama, Georgia, LSU, Florida, Texas A&M and others like Missouri who could make noise.
No. 16 Auburn is another strong program and they will open the season against Oregon from the Pac-12. The two teams are playing at Jerry’s World, so it will be a great chance for the SEC to reaffirm its dominance.
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To be fair, the Big Ten may be catching up, but for now, the SEC still has more strength.