SEC West hits 26-0 as LSU beats Florida

The SEC West’s members only had one out-of-division game between them in Week 7, a 30-27 win by LSU at Florida.

Add that to the 3-0 record the SEC West had already put up against the SEC East -- including a Week 1 blowout by Texas A&M at the home of the East’s then-favorite, South Carolina -- and the 22-0 out-of-conference record the division’s teams have, and you’ve got solid evidence this is by far the country’s best division. In case you needed any.

There’s a reason this division is going to shuffle throughout the country’s top 10 for most of this season, threatening to put multiple teams in the College Football Playoff and maybe topping the advanced-stats records for best division ever. Seven teams keeping all their losses amongst themselves is ... just about impossible.

The SEC East has a lot of good football players, but its teams have lost to Indiana and Temple. Big Ten teams have lost to Bowling Green and Central Michigan and so forth. The ACC has Wake Forest. The Pac-12 and Big 12 include losses to Nevada and North Dakota State, respectively. All of those are good leagues with potential national championship teams.

While every West win isn’t over an incredible opponent, those defeated teams include Boise State, Kansas State, West Virginia, and Wisconsin, plus some decent mid-majors. And the key thing: no losses.

Fans of teams in other conferences won’t like what happens in the rankings and maybe even the Playoff selection committee this year. But how can you argue against a division that doesn’t lose to anybody but itself? What other option do poll voters have here?

Next week: Arkansas hosts Georgia, LSU hosts Kentucky, and Ole Miss hosts Tennessee. That’s at least two more likely wins ... which does sound like the kind of scheduling one would come up with if one wanted to stack a specific division as much as possible, doesn’t it?