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Neuheisel: 'The Passion' Also Sets SEC Conference Apart

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One of the most polarizing conversations in college football is whether the SEC is the most talented conference, but one notable analyst and former longtime coach thinks there's something else that separates it.

"The thing that has also set the SEC apart from all the other conferences is the passion," Rick Neuheisel said on the Big O Show with Joe Zagacki at SEC Media Days. "I was studying some things on my plane ride out here and in this conference there are eight stadiums that are 80,000 or more that are filled every Saturday. In the Pac 12 there are two."

Is the SEC the most passionate football conference in the land?

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