The big trend in recent years throughout the sports world is analyzing games and players with advanced statistics to uncover useful trends.
Analytics, they call it. Spreadsheets and math. The stuff of geniuses.
It revolutionized baseball and basketball, and football is next. Or so they tell us.
Apparently, though, there aren't many data wizards in the SEC just yet. If there were, then maybe this once deep league wouldn't be so top heavy right now. Despite some convincing statistics, college presidents and athletic directors continue to populate the SEC with former assistants of Alabama coach Nick Saban.