If I was an offensive player, especially at the position with the shortest professional lifespan, I'm not sure I'd want to rush into the meat grinder that is SEC football. There are plenty of reasons to want to play the SEC, I get that. But if I'm making the decision based on what's going to be best for me when it comes time to enter the draft, a couple or three years of gaudy numbers against ACC competition and showing up at the combine with low mileage would be looking really good to me.
+1. I'm choosing a school that has a good OL class coming, plus a place with a favorable depth chart, one that has someone to share carries with. RBs are dumb if they want to rush into playing a brutal schedule and being the man.
Ask Marcus Lattimore how that's working out for him. 1st round talent, ton of miles, major injury, will likely be out of the league before he can collect a pension. An RB that tears up the ACC (or any other conference, including the SEC) will still get drafted in the same spot