Do not accuse ESPN of having a bias towards the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Or, Kirk Herbstreit is going to yell at you.

The SEC has become the gold standard of college football over the last two decades, with teams from the conference winning the majority of national championships, filling up the majority of teams in the Top 25 on most given weeks, and putting more first and second round picks into the NFL than just about any other two or three conferences combined.

This nearly unprecedented run of success has led many in the sports media to heap enormous amounts of praise on teams in the conference, whether it’s deserved or not, and, according to fans, has led to College Football Playoff (CFP) voters to rank SEC teams higher than is merited simply because of the conference they pla

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