On paper, a matchup of an SEC home team and a MAC squad shouldn’t be all that close. I think all of us have seen this type of movie enough by now to know it chapter and verse. We’ve been told “it just means more”, heard the conference acronym chanted more often than not at the conclusion of the national championship game, and if you’e ever in the presence of an SEC fan they will make it abundantly clear just how prolific the SEC is.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have been a Kentucky fan since I was born.