Recurring Offseason Themes: Turning back the SEC’s march to world domination

What you'll be reading for the next seven months. Previously: Portrait of the BCS in winter; Year of the Tiger, take two. Longtime readers know I bristle at the (frequently self-proclaimed) assumption of SEC dominance in college football, though after six consecutive BCS championships, holding on to that skepticism usually leaves me feeling like Henry Fonda at the beginning of "12 Angry Men." All the evidence points to the same conclusion, except where it doesn't. But the narrative left the "critical" phase in the dust a long time ago. Even Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has seen fit to concede on-field superiority to the SEC the last two years, despite his league's perfectly respectable record head-to-head. (Aside from Ohio State's back-to-back flops in the 2007-08 championship games, Big Ten teams have won nine games against SEC foes and lost ten since the beginning of the SEC's championship run in 2006, and have won at least one January b...