A favorite accusation for fans whose teams don’t reside in the SEC is that ESPN is biased toward the conference.

Paul Finebaum doesn’t agree with that train of thought, as he told Awful Announcing in a recent interview. Being SEC Network employee for the last five years after spending most of his career as a radio host and reporter in Alabama, Finebaum has quite a bit of experience with the SEC.

Below is what Finebaum told Awful Announcing about ESPN’s perceived SEC bias.

“I don’t believe it. I just don’t see any evidence of it. I understand the arrangements. Of all people I would certainly understand that, having a daily show on the SEC Network. But I would like to know how that is so.

A caller called in [Monday] and asked, ‘Why does Gary Danielson hate Alabama so much?’ I go, ‘Well, please give me one degree of specificity on what you’re talking about.’ ‘Well, he just is,’ he said. And I respond the same way to the general question with where is the bias?

If you look at College Gameday, this is week 12, they’ve been to three SEC sites, Clemson-Texas A&M, Georgia-Florida and Alabama-LSU. I don’t see it, and if I did I’d say it. What do I care?

It’s like somebody saying is Fox biased towards the Big 10? I watched the Big 10 championship last year and the announcers said the winner of this game is going to the playoffs. Well, that’s not true. And they didn’t go. So I would dispute that, and I’d want to have people show me the evidence.”