Michigan’s Stunning NCAA Triumph Sparks Debate: Is the Big Ten Now the True Powerhouse Over the SEC?
As the SEC grew into the nation’s dominant athletic conference through the first two decades of the 2000s, the Big Ten had little ability to answer outside of complaints and cope. Its insistence on being the league that followed rules — aside from an Ohio State scandal every now and then — would allow university presidents to give each other pats on the back. But when championships were on the line, it didn’t amount to much when Big Ten fans and players were being serenaded with chants of “SEC! SEC!”

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