An SEC team has won the last four BCS championships, the single piece of factual information its...
An SEC team has won the last four BCS championships, the single piece of factual information its fans have to hold over the rest of the country in their insistence on the on-field dominance of the South. Oregon's ever-changing array of flashy uniforms and spread option offense are the living antithesis of the salt-of-the-earth image the SEC cultivates for itself. Rest assured, their confidence in a fifth straight win – the first over a bunch of West Coast pretty boys – will be staggeringly high. The Ducks can either shut them up and usher in more respect for an expanded, rebranded Pac-10, or leave the rest of America to another year of gloating from the other side of the Mason-Dixon.
Dr. Saturday identifies the central issue for all of us in Bulldog Nation: does conference pride trump intra-conference contempt? For me, it doesn't. (I hate Auburn.) Which way will you be rooting, and why? Go 'Dawgs! . . . and go Ducks!