If you know nothing about college football, you can stop reading now. But for those who are mostly Gamecock fans or just want to learn more about how much money effects the sports industry, stay with me. They announced this week that Missouri will be joining the SEC conference. I'm assuming this is only in football, but I'm not totally sure. SEC stands for the South Eastern Conference and last time I checked, Missouri was neither Southern nor Eastern. Also, I don't think schools should just get to pick what conference they want to be in just for fun and switch when they think they deserve more money. The BIG 12 conference is actually looking at adding a couple more teams as well. How can the BIG TWELVE have more or less teams than TWELVE? exactly. And if the SEC keeps allowing any and every team in, they'll get too big and every school in the nation will try to join.
Example. Past 5 national football champions:
2011: Auburn
2010: Alabama
2009: Florida
2008: Florida
2007: LSU
I mean duh. Who wouldn't want to join such a great conference? The reason you see so many of these teams in the championship each year, is that their schedule is so strong. That's why Boise State, no matter how many games they win, will never go to the championship. They play teams like Utah while Florida, LSU, Alabama and South Carolina all play each other. So Missouri and Texas A&M (who also just joined the SEC) want a big peice of all this action. I hope all SEC fans like me out there are hoping these new teams don't bring down the level of awesomeness that already exists, which could happen. Do you feel educated yet?
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