Dude, SEC fans still care about their own teams. But you'd have to be a fool to ignore this:
1998-Tennessee over Florida State
2003-LSU over Oklahoma
2006- Florida over Ohio State
2007- LSU over Ohio State
2008- Florida over Oklahoma
2009- Alabama over Texas
2010- Auburn over Oregon
2011-Alabama over LSU
2012-Alabama over Notre Dame
It's not some fanatic banter, it's a very obvious pattern of success in that division. The SEC also won 5 bowl games of 8, no other division won 5 bowl games this year and no other division had the kind of competitive matchups the SEC did. That conference has been highly successful, you can't argue with it.