The battle for the best conference in college sports has gone back and forth over the last few years. The Big Ten has the upper hand in the biggest sport, college football, since it won the previous two national championships thanks to Michigan and Ohio State. That has raised the question of whether the Big Ten has surpassed the SEC in football dominance.

Nick Saban thinks the Big Ten has surpassed the SEC in that regard, thanks to the NIL age. He believes that because of NIL, players are more likely to be open to going elsewhere , and there is not as much of a geographic advantage for teams down South. In Saban's eyes, the South Big Ten has matched and even surpassed the SEC.

“Kids grew up wanting to attend LSU, Alabama, and Georgia. Got the money now. They don’t mind going to

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