If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

I thought about that old Ronald Reagan quote last week at the SEC spring meetings while the conference launched a days-long propaganda campaign explaining why it deserved more respect from the College Football Playoff committee.

The SEC’s best programs lost too often the past few years. Alabama’s four losses last season marked its most since 2007. Georgia lost just twice in three seasons from 2021-23 before losing three times last year. LSU hasn’t lost fewer than three times in a season since 2019. That 2019 season also marks the last time Florida won more than eight games. The less said the better about Auburn’s past five seasons.

We can debate whether the playoff committee would have been wiser to select a three-loss SEC team rather than SMU, b

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