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By Matt Audilet
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The Big Ten has produced each of the last three College Football Playoff national champions: Michigan, Ohio State and Indiana.
Before that streak, the SEC produced four champions in a row.
Some feel the Big Ten has overtaken the SEC as the premiere conference in college football. However, former Alabama Crimson Tide head coach Nick Saban does not agree.
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Saban feels the SEC is still the best conference in college football from top to bottom.
"I think the only reason people are talking about this is we dominated for so long, and we were so good, everybody makes a big deal out of being able to beat us," Saban said, via On3 Sports. "That doesn’t mean they’re better than us, and that doesn’t mean that just because you win the championship that you have a better conference. It just means you have one better team."
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Five SEC teams were selected for last year's College Football Playoff: Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Ole Miss. Three Big Ten teams — Indiana, Ohio State and Oregon — played their way into the expanded playoff field. Oregon and Indiana played each other on one side of the semifinal, while Ole Miss fell to Miami on the other.
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