At the beginning of every college football season, there is some type of story that fans are looking out for. The past two seasons have been centered around the polarizing figures of Jameis Winston and Johnny Manziel because of their off the field issues.

For the past decade, there has been a constant theme; the Southeastern Conference is the conference with the most depth and most talented conference in college football because of their seven year winning streak of winning the national title from 2006 to 2012.   After the 2014-2015 bowl season where the SEC was widely viewed as underperforming, a 7-5 record was not enough to appease the appetite of some college football fans while others think the conference is on top.

“I still think [the SEC] is the best conference,” said senior Sam McLean, “One bad bowl season does not define a conference.”

Others may disagree with this sentiment. The SEC West, which is largely known as the conference’s best division, went 2-5 with the two wins coming from the bottom teams, Texas A&M and Arkansas.

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“ The Big Ten is starting to close the gap and will continue to do so in the future,” said freshman Drew Weidman.

Since Ohio State’s win in the first ever College Football Playoff National Championship, some are preaching that the Big Ten may have the best returning team rather than

Alabama who resides in the SEC.  With the help of second year coach, Urban Meyer, Ohio State is bringing back onto the map of college football powerhouses.

“He’s brought a new culture to Ohio State and the Big Ten,” said Physical Education teacher Brett Barton, “[Ohio State] is going to try to get recruits from the south and away from other SEC schools.”

Once the bowl season finished, fans got to fully evaluate each conference’s bowl season performance. The Pacific-12 Conference finished with a bowl record of 6-2, the SEC at 7-5, Big Ten Conference at 5-5, the Atlantic Coast Conference finished with a 4-7 record, and the Big-12 Conference at 2-5.

“I think the top three conferences in order are the SEC, PAC-12, and the ACC,” said sophomore Arthur Harris, sticking to conventional statistics and attitudes.

College football is full of parody and Ohio State winning a national championship with their third string quarterback certainly adds to it. With the SEC slipping and losing its title of king of the hill anymore and conferences sneaking up on them, expect next year to give us something unexpected.