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Abstract:
Conventional wisdom in college football says a two-loss team doesn't belong in the national championship game.

But Charles Bloom knows the Southeastern Conference doesn't follow the same guidelines as most conferences.

The associate commissioner of the SEC has seen over the past few years the conference become the best in the land....

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Ed Gunther

posted 8/28/08 @ 1:55 PM EST

"Yet from week to week, upsets were common due to the caliber of the competition from top to bottom."

This it the most overused, incorrect stat out there - the numbers just don't back it up. The SEC is well below average in the number of upsets seen in the conference. The only conferences that saw less upsets in the BCS era were the Big East & the WAC. Top to bottom, they're not as strong as other conference.
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