I just noticed a tweet from Aaron Suttles—writer for Tuscaloosa News/Tidesports (Rivals.com affiliate.) As it currently stands, four SEC West teams in the top eight in team rankings and total of seven SEC teams in Top 10. Insane - Aaron Suttles 12:37 PM - 5 Feb 2014
2 or 3 of the best teams in the country could come out of the SEC West, but I bet only one ever gets into the playoffs . . .
When ESPN was scrolling the recruiting top 10 rankings last night, it looked like the damn SEC rankings. Even frickin' TENNESSEE showed-up and cracked the top 10. Big. Boy. Football.
I've got a little more faith in this committee than you, but you very well may be right. IF they do leave out a deserving second team, I'd bet it only happens once. As much as we hear about "SEC fatigue," I've got a suspicion they (committee members) wouldn't deal well with the backlash they'd hear for months on end. The sad thing is—and I see it as realistic scenario—we might see a SECW team with two losses that's arguably one of those four best teams in the country.
According to ESPN: 7 teams in the SEC out-recruited Notre Dame, Michigan, USC, Oklahoma and Texas. 7! That's half of our conference.
Kevin Sumlin on recruiting: "We had a great year. The only problem is we were fourth in the country and third in our own division."