The SEC doesn't play tough games every week like the Big12(minus Kansas). It's easy to get free wins. Hell the same thing used to happen to Iowa State... We'd get more wins every other year when we didn't have to play Texas or Oklahoma.
SEC and B1G are set up to make teams look better than they are. You see who the true good teams are in the Big12 now as we play everyone every year. And it makes us look worse because it's 9 good teams beating up on each other(last year 8 since ISU was young and hurt, had a down year).
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