There's No Way to Sugarcoat It, the SEC Is Mediocre in 2016

The regular season is complete, the bowl games are coming up and there's no way to sugarcoat what has gone down over the last three months in the 13 SEC cities outside of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

The SEC is mediocre.

It's average.

It's a conference with one really good team—Alabama—and a bunch of teams that struggle to find consistency, routinely get in their own way and are no better or worse than other mid-level Power Five teams from around the country.

Rivalry Weekend was a perfect microcosm of its ineptitude.

Three of the four out-of-conference rivalry games were won by the ACC—Georgia Tech over Georgia, Clemson over South Carolina and Florida State over Florida. Sure, two of those ACC…