As Carolina Panthers fans many of us are also heavily invested in college football. College football rivalries persist among competing schools and their fans year round, but so do the rivalries across conferences.
Generally speaking, the SEC is the self-appointed king of college football and would like to reinforce that notion by limiting as many non-SEC teams as possible from competing against them in the College Football Playoffs. The Big Ten has a small number of elite schools (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and newcomer Oregon) plus a handful of good-but-not-great programs.
The Big 12 consistently churns out a rotating cast of solid teams ranked from No.