The best conference in college football, in my opinion, is the SEC. This is not simply my opinion; it's fact. Or more correctly, it's neither - it's an obsession, passed down from generation to generation. College football in the South is a sacred thing - arguably one step short in importance to God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost, and that's only because God had the good sense to hold court on Sunday morning, not Saturday afternoon. I grew up in Memphis and the members of my family were rabid Ole Miss fans, back in the days of Archie Manning, pre-Payton and Eli. When I a kid, I was more interested in college football than I was in Barbie. She made a lousy quarterback, and Ken wasn't much better. Too scrawny <grin>. The following is an excerpt from "Bragging Rights: A Season Inside the SEC, College Football's Toughest Conference." (2000) "Football fans in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan would disagree, but it's hard to dispute the opinion that, top to bottom, year in and year out, the SEC plays the best football in the land. Seven SEC schools have won national championships. Three SEC teams won the national title in the 1990s (Alabama in 1992, Florida in 1996, and Tennessee in 1998.) SEC teams win more bowl games, and more out-of-conference contests, than any other conference. There are lots of great college football players around the country, but the SEC arguably has more than anybody. In 2000 NFL draft, forty-one SEC players were picked by the pros » the best conference showing to date. The Big Ten Conference came next with thirty-six. Good players attract attention: for the last eighteen years, the SEC has led the nation in total attendance. More than 5.5 million fans watched SEC games, in person, last year. That's an average of more than 70,000 per game. Nearly every conference game, at every stadium, was a sell-out. Here is a league that has produced some of the brightest lights in the football firmament: Joe Namath, John Hannah, Dwight Stephenson, Kenny Stabler, Herschel Walker, Bo Jackson, Doug Atkins, Johnnie Majors, Archie Manning, Fran Tarkenton, Peyton Manning, Emmitt Smith, Wilber Marshall, Jack Youngblood, Lee Roy Jordan, Cornelius Bennett, Reggie White, Stanley Morgan, Pat Sullivan, Terry Beasley, Tracy Rocker, Danny Wuerffel, Billy Cannon, Steve Spurrier, and Terrell Davis » to name a handful of its stars. Legendary coaches? There have been a few, starting with Paul "Bear" Bryant, who won six national championships and more college football games than anybody (though Joe Paterno and Bobby "Aw Shucks" Bowden could soon overtake him). Nobody could motivate young men quite like Bryant. For old timers, the image of him leaning against a goal post before every game, dragging on a cigarette, is indelible. His craggy face seldom showed little except his tough Arkansas roots. "He was a crusty fucker," says Jimmy Bryan, a retired sportswriter for the Birmingham News. "When he first got to town, if you asked him a stupid question, Bryant would say: 'I don't answer shit like that.' He came to Alabama and made it number one." Shug Jordan (1951-1975) was a true Southern gentleman who built the formidable Auburn program; John Vaught (1947-1970) led Ole Miss to six SEC titles in the 1950s and 1960s. General Robert Neyland, an innovative, tough-minded West Point grad, is synonymous with Tennessee football. He was a master of the single-wing offense. Between 1926 and 1952, he won 173 games, lost 31. Wallace Wade (1922-1930) was the other great coach at Alabama; Wally Butts (1939-1960) and Vince Dooley (1964-1988) won all ten of Georgia's SEC titles; Charlie McClendon (1962-1979) coached LSU longer than anybody. Those are a few of the men who created the SEC mystique." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871319268/gotinfostudentde

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SEC with out a doubt. Big 12 is a close second.

AnOle Miss fan walks into an appliance store and says I would like to buy that T.V. please. The store clerk replies "I'm sorry, we dont do business with Ole Miss fans." So the fan stormed off back to their house and changed into Tech blue. The next day, the fan went back to the same store and said I would like to buy that T.V. please. The store clerk, once again, replies "Sorry, we dont do business with LSU fans." The fan replied "How did you know I was an Ole Missfan?" The clerk says "Because thats a microwave, not a T.V."

The Big 12, just because I say so. Texas Longhorns, just because I say so. (I may be partial)