Poll Angst: Why SEC Fans Should Be Nervous

With the football season upon us, sphincter muscles of SEC fans everywhere are tightly constricted.  There is much to fear. The road to the BCS Championship game is a nearly impossible trek for upper tier teams like Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Auburn, and LSU.  For Ole Miss, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama, and Kentucky, it’s a question of forcing an entry to that upper tier.  For Vandy and Mississippi State, it’s a question of getting quality wins against the others, a question of respect. A SEC fan looks at the landscape outside the conference, and he or she knows several teams have been given a straight shot at THE game by pollsters who doggedly insist from day one that Ohio State and Oklahoma should be in the championship game, no matter how many times they are “shocked” by the outcome when such teams encounter the true meat eaters of the SEC or USC (a team some consider the SEC, FAR West division). They snicker when they place four SEC teams in ... (link)