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Originally Posted by King Glorious
I think Penn St is able to win because they are often a second level Big 10 team and are playing second level SEC teams and even though it seems that this year the SEC has been the far better conference, usually the two are pretty evenly matched once you get past the top teams. Eight times out of 10 though, the top two from the SEC will beat the top two from the Big 10. Penn St and some other B-10 schools can compete with some SEC schools. But in any given year, if Penn St ends up as the best B-10 school, they'd likely suffer the same fate as OSU does when they play the best SEC school.
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I don't know what you consider 2nd level...usually when PSU is matched in a bowl with the SEC they are usually the 3rd or 4th best big 10 team...even the 2nd best at times...and they're playing a Jan 1st game usually the Outback or Capital One or whatever those games are called. Why would the 3rd or 4th best big 10 be able to beat the 3rd or 4th best SEC team but not be able to compete when it is 1 versus 1?? (as in the last two years you had wins by PSU, Wisconsin laast year and Michigan this year against the SEC)?? That doesn't make much sense to me. When PSU was the best in the big 10 which hasn't happened often recently...1994 and 2005 they weren't matched against the SEC. (played Oregon in 1994 before BCS and then Florida State in 2005.)
(or perhaps it could be as simple as ddthetide said as a lot of PSUs SEC bowl wins are against Fullmer!!)