SEVENTH DAY ADVENTURE PODCAST
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7th Day Adventure: An SEC World
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by Russell Levine I've never been a big fan of conference title games. I feel strongly that they are made-for-TV events that can compromise the regular season. Since the BCS doesn't consider them any different than a regular-season game for the purposes of finding its 1-2 matchup, I'm not sure what the purpose is other than to put on a spectacle for the TV cameras and make a pile of money. The argument that the Big East, Big Ten, and Pac-10 champions should somehow be punished for not having to play a 13th game holds no water with me. Nobody is forcing the ACC, Big 12, and SEC to play these games -- they're done for commerce. History is evenly split on whether they help or hurt those leagues' teams when it comes to getting into the BCS title game. For every LSU of 2007, which played its way into the BCS in ...
