(Self) lovefest

And now, on to the sectional championship game.

Which, yes, is supposedly the College Football Playoff Championship Game, but not now, not after Alabama took down No. 1 Clemson 24-6 and Georgia toppled Oklahoma 54-48 in double overtime in a non-Rose Bowl Rose Bowl that will go down as one for the ages.

Now we get 'Bama-Georgia for the national title. Now we get an all-SEC championship game. Now we get a week of obnoxious bragging (even from the SEC's paid lackeys at ESPN) about how the SEC is the greatest thing since toast on a stick, vastly superior to all the lower classes of Them Other Conferences, who live in the SEC's servants' quarters and exist mainly to serve its needs.

"They say the SEC doesn't dominate any more, but I beg to differ," Alabama center Bradley Bozeman crowed after the Crimson Tide's win.

"I'm trying to figure out how a one-team league has both of the teams playing for the national championship," snickered SEC executive associate commissioner Mark Womack.

Oh, I don't know. Maybe because, at least this year, you were actually a 2-team league?

Let's go to the tape, shall we?

Let's go first to Georgia having to go double overtime to knock off Oklahoma, which doesn't exactly equate to total SEC dominance in this corner. Let's go to the Big Ten's 7-1 record against outsiders in bowl games this season. Let's go to the SEC's 2-5 record. Does all this add up to, as ESPN put it, "there's no doubt" the SEC is the best conference in college football?

No. No it does not.

What it adds up to is, at least this year, there's no doubt the Big Ten was the best conference, top to bottom. What it adds up to is the SEC had two really good teams, one sporadically really good team and a whole lot of "meh" outside that.

Which will not change the narrative this week, of course.

Let the self-lovefest begin.