Difficult to answer given the mentality of the sec. The best way to put it is that you want it both ways. I have already stated that if none of your teams play for the championship, then the conferences represented are better than yours....this would be the Big 10 and the Pac 12. You tout the sos then struggle with sub par teams. This should drop lots of teams but doesn't due to pollsters. Why have a poll? The NFL does not carry rankings through the season. There is a playoff and a champion. What could be easier to figure and to live with? The point I am trying to make is......who cares where you rank nationally during the season when the only ranking that matters is after the championship game? On a side....how come it is that the Ags, who took care of business, are said to have thoroughly beaten Ball State but Texas, who took care of business especially after that last outing, is thought of as .....well, it was only Rice.