wow, I created a monster.
Purple and orange tigers, huh? The SEC has purple and gold tigers, and their tigers won the National Championship (tied, since someone will think I wasn't fair). I will say the Big 10 is big, but there is so much population up there how could it not be? The SEC has set the record for over 20 years for best football attendance of any conference, and the Big 10 has Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State (all stadiums which can seat over 100,000 if I'm not mistaken). The only stadium in the SEC I know of which can seat over 100,000 is Tennessee. To top that, there's probably more people who go to Big 10 schools than SEC schools, cause Minnesota and Ohio State are close to 100,000 people on their own. Sure Florida and Georgia are big, but overall I'd say there are more people in the Big ten than in the SEC.
SEC football is unlike any other football, period. It's unlike the ACC, the PAC-10, the big 12 (go Mizzou), and unlike the Big 10. I knew a LSU fan who was insane with pride. He never didn't have some purple and gold on his clothes at some point in time. He would rattle on about the earthquake bowl and any other game that happened over the last 20 years. It was amazing, he was hands down the biggest football fan I have EVER seen. To tope it off, the guy was in his 50s. And I soon found out this isn't just LSU, this is the SEC.
Anyway, much love to all conferences, even the Missouri Valley conference to which my beloved Bears belong (who beat So. Illinois in the tourney). But to compare yourself to the SEC is like comparing your weather to Hawaii. There may be days which your weather is better, but you can't beat them day in and day out.
SMSUBear
P.S. Do Auburn and Alabama really hate eachother as much as it's said? I know there's no love on game day, but just as far as the campuses are concerned.
edit: BTW, Michigan's fight song is not the best. The best is Mizzou's
, followed by Tennessee (good ol' rocky top), and then Notre Dame (the only fight song my grandma would know). After that is Michigan, then UTEP (if you can't tell I love the old country music).