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Same people who say "the SEC was down" can't explain how the SEC dominated the other conferences in bowls.
A total of 3 NCs in 12 years(‘90-‘01).
A total of 9 NCs in the the last 13 years, twice with 2 SEC teams playing head-to-head in the final game.
Yes, definitely the same conference.
But yeah, I remember watching those 90’s Independence Bowls with Alabama squeaking by Iowa State and Auburn crushing Army by 3, and just high-fiving all my friends and being overwhelmed with SEC pride. Epic nights.
Again, you can say Spurrier was great while also acknowledging that the SEC was dramatically different at the time and that he had his own struggles with certain teams. They just happened to not be in-conference. Doesn’t diminish the fact that we generally couldn’t beat them and lost several times due to coaching.