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The balance of power in college football shifted back toward the Big Ten the last two years as the conference earned back-to-back national championships with Michigan’s 2023 title and Ohio State’s 2024 crown. That run snapped an eight-year stretch in which the Southeast region produced champion after champion and the SEC more often than not reigned supreme. That shift in favor of the Big Ten did not sit well with coaches in the SEC.
SEC coaches and administrators engaged in a week of grandstanding at the conference’s spring meetings, emphasizing the league’s status as the deepest and most competitive in college football and other sports. Some of those in attendance noted the SEC’s shortcomings, too, like its rare two-year College Football Playoff title drought.
“It bothers us as competitors,” Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz said to ESPN. “We feel like we’re the best conference in college football, and we want to make sure that the ultimate prize at the end of the year is that national championship trophy.”
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Not once in the playoff era did the SEC go two years without a champion until Michigan and Ohio State played trophy keep-away with the conference. The last time it sustained a multi-year drought was in 2013 and 2014 when Florida State closed the BCS…
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Author : Carter Bahns
Publish date : 2025-05-29 23:57:00
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