Has Big Ten surpassed SEC in college football hierarchy? Examining the gap between powerhouse conferences

When Ohio’s state defeated Notre Dame to win the opening football match of the 12 -team college, it ended a 10 -year -old national dryer for Buckeyes and removed a large and mitigated monkey from Ryan Day’s Back. It also gave the Big Ten Championship for successive national championships, the first time that it has occurred since the seasons of 1965 and 1966 when Michigan state won a successive national title.

It is a rare occurrence and a wider discussion. After decades of living under the tyranny of the Supreme Council for Continuing Education, did Big Ten topple university football ownership? Are the ten adults now the king of football?

Well, if you are in the bias of modernity (who is not?), It is likely that the last paragraph you read is the preferred at all because there is definitely a strong argument that can be it. After all, it wins a national title that gave SEC a strong claim; The league won 15 national titles in the 27th seasons since the beginning of BCS (1998), and not all were a single school. While Alabama won more than anyone else, six different schools in SEC raised the cup.

Now, The Big Ten defeated two consecutive with two different schools. In addition, the league won four teams in the football match in the college consisting of 12 teams, three of which reached the quarter -finals, while two played the semi -finals. SEC only got three teams, and Texas was the only one among the three that won the match (two won). Georgia and Tennessee were one clear, which was homogeneously thrown by the two teams, which were called the title game.

Big Ten 2-0 went against SEC in football matches in college and 3-1 against them in other Sultanate games. Modern results strongly indicate that Big Ten is SEC, but as much as it can be the bias of modernity, it is not the best way to reach a conclusion.

I have another favorite way: looking at the broader sample size that is a full season.

There is no ideal way to classify the difference in sport that includes 134 programs, all of which play significantly different schedules for different levels of opponents. However, I would like to tell myself that I got close to doing this, using a classification system that removes all bias. For years, I classified the teams based on nothing but games results in a current season. Every year, Ohio begins the season with the same classification as UMASS, and only results from games are used to evaluate the difference. As for the strength of the schedule, all of this depends on the classification of the difference within my regular system to get rid of the bias from external opinion polls.

Everyone in all, this has been done with a good job in classifying the difference without our pre -concepts about pre -opinion polls and the super -high podcast hosts that tell us that the difference should be. How did my classification classified this season’s teams? This is a look In the first ten teams after the football team at the college ended.

What should appear immediately is that all the first three teams call the top ten house, and the fourth is Notremam. We don’t see the SEC team until we reach Ole Miss at 5 (You know these are the favorite Lane KiFin classifications). We also see that there are four Big Ten teams in the first ten and two teams of SEC, which is the same as the ACC team in the list.

Once again, this indicates that Big Ten is better than the Supreme Education Council, but do you remember the argument that other than SEC fans are used to SEC fans on his head for years? As you know, a person who was not really good, is just a more elite difference than anyone and is very heavy?

Well, the same argument can be used to open the Big Ten case here as well because the next three teams in the classifications are all SEC teams, as well as nine of the best 36 teams. Big Ten may have four teams of the 10 best teams, but only have four in the best 40 teams. Two (Kentucky and Mississippi). But even this does not tell the entire story. After all, Big Ten fans can face by saying, “Yes, well, we have 18 teams to 16 teams, so we are more likely to have more teams in 40!” This fan did not go to Bordeaux because if they did so, they will quickly indicate that 3 out of 18 is 16.7 % of your league while 2 out of 16 is only 12.5 %, but it is possible that Bordeaux’s fan can say anything because it is it Purdue really crushes the ten adults in this next part of our study.

Here is what happens when I use the same formula that I use to classify the difference in conferences.

Yes, SEC has been ranked much higher. Although it is not a super -scientific, it is noticeable that the gap between the SEC and Big Ten’s rating (1.39) is broader than the gap between Big Ten and ACC in fourth place (1.09).

Basically, what we can take away from it is that while Big Ten has won two national titles with two different schools, the league is heavy. SEC may not have the best team in the country these days, but it has a larger set of very good teams than Big Ten. Once you exceed the five best teams of Big Ten this season (the four qualifying teams and Ilinoy), there is a significant decrease in the next level of the league teams. A gap is not clear in the Supreme Education Council.

So, what is the great conclusion? Although I will not prevent any of you from chanting “ESS-EEE-SEE” or “Bee-One-GEE” in each other (it is fun to repeat things, and I want you to enjoy yourself), I am still clearly clear that SEC is My role is better than Big Ten in general.

Now, this said …

The Big Ten did not close the gap only this season or another. It is a gap that was narrowed a few years ago, and it is likely to be closed for one day in the non -far -long future.