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    Juice Cryer. Has had a great couple of games, and they have used him on pressures more than Biles to this point. Can see a turnover caused by him or recovered by him in this one with the focus the DL is gonna get.
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    I tended to be of the belief that the SEC was overrated over the last couple of decades before conference realignment. They always had the best talent (high school rankings), but football games are not won on high school rankings and the SEC underperformed in bowl games (when those still mattered). It is hard to determine overall quality now that the post season are not legitimate games outside of the playoffs. I was born in 99 so I couldn't tell you anything about the 70s. This experiment was an attempt to do something completely neutral, with a focus on reducing any legitimate argument people could make that voters were propping up the SEC for TV purposes or anything else. I also have never believed Missouri was actually good, but I also wouldn't argue against someone saying Missouri would beat a team like Texas Tech this season.
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    Given the rise of the "SEC bias" sentiment based on the AP Poll's (terrible) rankings, I thought it would be a good exercise to see just how accurate this narrative was. I approached the poll like an academic study, including a methodology section (I am a JD not a PHD but figured it'd be an interesting experiment). For the study, I removed the ballots of every AP Poll voter who could be considered to have an SEC affiliation to see what the poll would look like without "SEC bias" having an impact. The only team from the SEC that moved down was Missouri, who went from ranked 25 to 27. Other SEC teams actually moved up in the rankings. I attached the study results and methodology as a word doc if anyone wants to share it. Feel free to use it however you'd like, but in the days of misinformation, I felt like facts could be beneficial. Analytical look at SEC Bias in the AP Poll.docx
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