It is hard to turn on the TV or read the newspaper today without hearing about how the SEC conference destroyed the Big Ten conference in football bowl games. If this was your only news about college, you would assume that Auburn and Alabama are the places to be and that Michigan and Northwestern need to go "back to the drawing board".
Luckily, the ONLY reason we have institutions of higher learning is to provide challenging and rigorous academic programs, not successful sports teams. The future engineers and doctors are going to add more to society than the successful wide receiver. So I opened the latest U.S. News and World Report to see how the Big Ten competes against the SEC in what really matters - academics. If academic excellence took place on football field, Michigan and Northwestern would be three touchdown favorites over the SEC teams.
Let's just keep things in perspective!
P.S. For full disclosure, I received my Master's Degree from a SEC school - The University of Georgia. Plus Vanderbilt is a excellent school and is part of the SEC conference. They just have a lousy football team.
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