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Stopwatch data proves College GameDay has undeniable SEC bias

Brad Crawford

By Brad Crawford

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The idea of ‘SEC bias’ has been a hot-button topic throughout the 2014 college football, err, since the 2006 season when SEC won the first of seven consecutive national championships, but is there a legitimate facts-based argument supporting the claim?

RELATED: Idea of ‘SEC bias’ is ridiculous

Scott Bryant, a writer and apparent network television guru for Awful Announcing, recently used a stopwatch to track the amount of SEC coverage during several full-length College GameDay broadcasts.

Bryant’s data during the popular three-hour pregame show backs the SEC Bias claim, at least from a viewer’s perspective, much to the chagrin of analysts Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit and Scott Van Pelt who have each publicly reprimanded the claims this season.

From Bryant’s story:

Inspired by Fowler’s claims, I decided to watch three hours of College Gameday, with a stopwatch, to compile the amount of airtime that was given to each conference during its broadcast. Assuming that, in the interest of being a network that “televises a bracket,” it would want to give equal airtime to, as Fowler noted “a west coast team, [a] midwest team, [a] team from the Big 12 or ACC…”

His findings prove a point:

College GameDay data from Baton Rouge, Oct. 25

  • SEC – 1:02:08
  • Big Ten – 15:59
  • Big 12 – 15:19
  • PAC12 – 10:57
  • D-III – 5:00
  • Ivy League – 1:08
  • ACC – 0:43 (brief segment from George Whitfield on Jameis Winston)

College GameDay data from Morgantown, Nov. 1

  • SEC – 36:30
  • Big 12- 17:51
  • PAC 12 – 14:00
  • Big Ten – 11:00
  • C-USA – 2:50
  • ACC – 2:14
  • Independents – 2:10

Oftentimes ‘SEC bias’ claims come across as whiny from fans/media members from other Power 5 affiliations and are quickly refuted:

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