SEC Exposed in Bowl Season + Big 12 Transfer Portal Winners & Losers
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The SEC’s bowl season struggles raised plenty of questions — and we break down what went wrong, why it matters, and whether the conference’s dominance is being overstated.
Then, we turn to the Big 12 transfer portal, handing out Week 1 winners and losers as teams reshape their rosters heading into the 2026 season. Who helped themselves early? Who still has work to do?
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| 0:00.0 | The SEC absolutely bombs out in bowl games. |
| 0:04.8 | And I'm here to talk about it. |
| 0:07.0 | And yes, rub a little salt in that wound for those of you in the SEC. |
| 0:12.1 | And for those of us who are enjoying every second of it. |
| 0:15.9 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College Sports. |
| 0:18.1 | It is great to have you here. |
| 0:19.7 | We cover the Big 12, but welcome in. |
| 0:21.9 | If you're a casual Big 12 fan, if you're an ACC fan, if you're a Big 10 fan, and you just want to |
| 0:27.9 | take a big steamer right now on the SEC, you're not going to have more fun than you're going to |
| 0:34.3 | have here at Heartland College Sports. Thanks so much for joining us. |
| 0:37.9 | So after old Nish lost to Miami, the SEC finished up one and eight in the bowl season |
| 0:47.7 | against power four teams, not in the SEC. |
| 0:52.3 | So games where they're not playing themselves, those don't count. |
| 0:56.8 | Games, not where they're playing Tulane, games where they're playing teams in the Power 4. |
| 1:03.3 | In bowl games, the SEC just went 1 and 8. |
| 1:06.9 | The SEC is no longer the premier conference in college football. |
| 1:11.2 | Put an end to it. |
| 1:12.3 | Greg Sankey, it's over. |
| 1:14.7 | This push from Greg Sankey to try to get seven, eight, nine teams on being facetious there. |
| 1:21.0 | But the days of Greg Sankey trying to get six, seven teams in the college football playoff, boy, Greg Sanky's narrative, which was always BS, |
| 1:30.9 | took a massive hit. And I'm glad that as someone who's been doing this on this channel for 10 |
| 1:39.5 | years, this was a website that started 10 years ago, Heartlandcollegeports.com, as a site that was being built, really a blog at the time being built, to just push back on the SEC narrative and promote the Big 12 conference and talk about the Big 12 conference. |
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