This will come as a shock to those of you who think the Big Ten plays wearing combat boots and simply does not have the quickness to compete with the SEC’s suddenness; the shock is… the Big Ten leads the SEC…. 91-86-6 in head to head bowl clashes. I have to admit…I was a little more than just surprised by that stat.
Since 1990, the SEC leads these mono a mono (hand to hand combat… not man to man you dopes) confrontations… but not by as much as you might think! In the 54 games played in the past 20 years… the SEC has won 29 to the Big Ten’s 25…. not the dominance that that the talking heads @ ESPN or the SEC folks like to imply or outright claim.
Two factors that I think have led to the perception that the Big Ten is inferior by a wide margin are: 1) The Big Ten’s performance in high profile games (BCS Bowls… in particular, Ohio State vs Florida 41-14 & LSU 38-24… beat downs in back to back BCS National Championship Games) and 2) the recent history… which hit (hard) rock bottom last year (Alabama 49 Michigan State 7, Mississippi State 52 Michigan 14, and Florida 37 Penn State 24). Ohio State did beat Arkansas last year, 31-26, but we later discovered, their compliance officers, Al Capone & Frank Nitti, had not been as forthcoming as the NCAA would have liked regarding some of their queries. As a result, OSU vacated that win… so last year… officially… (if not on the field) here are/were the results…..SEC 3 wins, Big Ten Black & Blue, & OSU officials claiming they do not know the whereabouts of Al or Frank!
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