As many in the national media continue to point to an Alabama Football decline, the opposite end of the SEC football spectrum provides perspective.
At least two and maybe three – and possibly four SEC teams may suffer the indignity of not playing in the postseason. The prestige of most of the bowls has so faded; no longer is making a bowl game the reward it was in the previous century.
Many Alabama football fans can remember dreadful excursions to Shreveport. Older Crimson Tide fans can think back to three depressing bowl games in the 1980s.