Son, I've been watching this conference since the days when Maryland and South Carolina were still in it, and I can tell you that traveling to play a bunch of teams with no history or rivalry is not the same as a real schedule. You want tough? Try the old ACC schedule where you had to go to Death Valley to face a real Clemson team, then host a Bobby Bowden Florida State squad that was a national title contender, all while dealing with the pure hatred of a Virginia Tech rivalry game. This SP+ nonsense is for people who never felt the tension of a Thursday night game in Blacksburg. Five teams in some computer's top 30? That doesn't measure the wear and tear of a real conference grind. The SEC might have weaker bottom feeders, but their top dogs play with a physicality we haven't seen out west since the days of Ronnie Lott. Cal will be taking flights across the country to play in half-empty stadiums against teams they have no past with. That's not toughness, that's just logistics. Give me the old, nasty ACC any day over this coast-to-coast television contract mess. Real toughness was built in rivalries, not projected by a computer.