A funny thing happened in college football between the years 2006 and '12: the same conference won the national championship seven years in a row.
Florida, LSU, Alabama and Auburn took turns passing around the BCS's crystal football, and in doing so changed the look of the game. Not since Harvard, Princeton and Yale ruled the roost in the 19th century had one region of the country reigned so supreme. In a relatively high-parity era by college football standards, the SEC always seemed one step ahead—and that set the conference up to remain dominant in the low-parity era that followed.
