This is exactly the kind of nonsense I expect from someone who never watched a down before the playoff era. You're talking about SP+ like it means something. We used to judge schedules by the fight in the team, not some computer printout. I remember when our Bulldogs would line up against Grambling in the Circle City Classic, that was a real measuring stick, none of these projected top 30 arguments. The ACC has been soft for years, they've been living off Florida State's ghost from the 90s. You put any of those teams in the old SWAC week in and week out, with the travel and the pure hatred in those rivalries, and see how they hold up. The SEC, even now, is a different animal. It's about the trenches, something these fancy metrics never understand. Kids today forget that Alabama and Auburn built their names on beating each other's brains in every November, not on who had more teams in a top 30 projection. That schedule might look tough on your spreadsheet, son, but it doesn't have the soul of a real conference grind. The game has lost that.