We here takes tons of der der der der der (banjo on porch). Listen, any real college football fan who has gone to a real football school will root for their conference on any national stage. When the top team is voted as such, conference strength plays a huge role. If your conference is struggling in RECENT years like the Big Ten, you want the conference to be represented well in bowl games. If your conference is the tops in recent years like the SEC, then as a fan of any SEC team, you want the conference to continue flexing its tiny hick muscle.
And chazbb,
"Witness Florida's 41-14 victory over "number 1" Ohio State in the 2007 BCS National Championship game. The truth is, ANY of the top five teams in the SEC that year would have easily handled Ohio State, but Florida just so happened to get the honor."
Dont be an idiot. That's something a casual college football fan would say.