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When Ohio State defeated Notre Dame to win the inaugural 12-team College Football Playoff, it ended a 10-year national title drought for the Buckeyes and removed a large, scarlet and gray face-painted monkey off Ryan Day’s back. It also gave the Big Ten back-to-back national championships, the first time that’s happened since the 1965 and 1966 seasons when Michigan State won consecutive national titles.
It’s a rare occurrence and one that has sparked a wider debate. After decades of living under the unrelenting tyranny of the SEC, has the Big Ten overthrown the college football monarchy? Is the Big Ten now the king of college football?
Well, if you’re into recency bias (who isn’t?) then that last paragraph you read is probably your favorite of all time because there’s certainly a strong argument to be made it has. After all, it’s winning national titles that gave the SEC such a strong claim; the league has won 15 national titles in the 27 seasons since the inception of the BCS (1998), and it hasn’t all been one school. While Alabama has won more than everybody else, six different SEC schools have hoisted the trophy.
Now, the Big Ten has won two in a row with two different schools. Plus, the league got four teams into the 12-team field College Football Playoff, and three of them made it to the quarterfinals while two made the semifinals. The SEC only got three teams in, and Texas was the only one of the three to win a game (it won two). Georgia and Tennessee were one-and-done, unceremoniously dumped by the two teams who reached the title game.
The Big Ten went 2-0 against the SEC in College Football Playoff games and 3-1 against it in other bowl games. So recent results strongly suggest that the Big Ten is the SEC’s daddy, but as fun as…
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Author : Tom Fornelli
Publish date : 2025-01-24 16:22:00
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