Fig & Mint

The college football season officially begins in about 38 minutes, and I for one couldn't be more excited.  Well, that's not true.  I'd be more excited if ESPN covered college football as well as they cover other sports; the well known fact remains, however, that ESPN is jack assed and biased against the SEC and toward USC and Ohio State.  I am generally able to put up with it well enough, since I know it going in, but tonight Mark May has forced me to hate him.  Rather than regurgitate all of the well worn and plainly valid arguments over the amazing depth of play in the SEC as opposed to any other conference, I'm just going to repeat the most retarded point that I've ever heard a college football analyst try to defend.  When asked about the strongest conference in the nation, May conceded that SEC was undoubtedly top, but, he explained, the margin isn't very large because the Big XII is coming on strong.  The Big XII?  What...THE BIG XII??  Are you kidding me? Thankfully, Lou Holtz effectively rebuffed May's idiocy, and even went on to talk about the immense talent in unspoken SEC teams such as South Carolina and Ole Miss (Hotty Toddy!!!!!!!), not to mention the fact that 6 SEC teams are ranked in the preseason Top 25, with 2 in the top 5 and the aforementioned Gamecocks at #26.  Well, I can't get away from this without pointing out that USC only wins (on average) by about 10 points a conference game in the PAC-10, the worst of the Big 4 conferences, and Ohio State can't help but get embarassed by SEC schools in big games (I seem to recall this one national championship...).

I hope you get fired, Mark May.  Of course I know you won't, since ESPN is obviously on some under the table Buckeye and Trojan bankrolls and tends to revel in college football lunacy.  Meh. 

Don't just take my word for it, read this article which outlines the different aspects of the argument.  Then, check out the best college sports blog on the Interweb, The Dead Guy's SEC Site. 

Go Rebs!