The Wall Street Journalarticle might be a little tongue-in-cheek, but its headline is no joke: “College Football Surrenders to the SEC.” “The commissioners of major-college football’s other 10 conferences made the decision to capitulate in an emergency conference call Saturday night, following LSU’s 47-21 demolition of West Virginia,” writes Darren Everson. “The rout was the latest in a series of unfortunate encounters between SEC schools and supposedly quality opponents, including LSU-Oregon Sept. 3, Alabama-Michigan State in January and the last five national-title games, only one of which was in doubt at the end.” Among other fictitious rule changes explained in the article, Everson says the SEC “reserves the right to campaign for an LSU-Alabama rematch in the BCS ‘title’ game if the initial meeting is close and there are no other undefeated major-conference schools at season’s end.” Read the entire article here.
Led by the Tigers, SEC’s dominance is undisputed
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