It’s about even. Big ten had 3 teams with 10+ wins and the sec had 7. Big ten had 6 teams with 8 or 9 wins and sec had 2
Here’s what’s my deciding factors:
Excluding ND and FCS, the B1G went 21-3 against non-p4 FBS teams during the regular season. Their three losses: Tulane 23-3 against Northwestern, UNLV 30-23 against UCLA, and New Mexico 45-10 against UCLA. The SEC went 28-2 with their two losses being USF 18-16 UF & Memphis 32-31 Arkansas.
Pretty even. The main difference for me is that UF beat Texas, their top non-playoff team, while Northwestern and UCLA lost every game to the good teams in their conference.
Their only p4 playoff wins were against each other. The other was Ole Miss beating Tulane for the second time in the same season.
B1G: 3-4 (XII), 4-2 (ACC), &
4-3 (SEC)
SEC: 6-8 (ACC) & 3-1 (XII)
XII: 7-3 (ACC)
Additionally:
1. IU won the national championship
2. Ohio State beat Texas; IU smoked Alabama. LSU’s and OU’s wins against Clemson and Michigan were not impressive.
3. No top 5 B1G had a loss as bad as Alabama against FSU
4. Arkansas scored more points against every single SEC defense than they did against Notre Dame; in fact, most of Arkansas’ losses were within 10 points while the ND game was a blowout.
5. SEC went 2-2 in rivalry week (Ws LOU + CLE vs Ls for GT + FSU).
6. No SEC team has made the national championship game for three years in a row.
7. Brent Key and GT played back to back SEC champs UGA as well as any SEC school does in a loss.
8. Tennessee went 8-4 in the regular season after trading qbs with UCLA; and Joey Aguilar’s previous stop was at App State.
Ahmad Hardy played against UVA in the bowl game; Mizzou still lost to UVA. The SEC’s only postseason win against a P4 program, not in the SEC, was Texas beating Michigan who had just fired their coach before the bowl game lol.