A friend of mine was trying to convince me that the SEC schools are just as good academically as the Big Ten’s. I told him that the fact he was arguing it proved him wrong. He goes to Florida.

Jeff, your site is the most brilliant blog ever. I wish I were just like you

The previous views have been slightly modified, and might not represent J Money’s actual feelings, nor the views of Boiled Sports Incorporated.

Yes! I went to school in Indiana and my wife went to school in Florida! I am smarter than her! I have proof!!!!!

OMG! That’s freaking AWESOME!

Of course, once the SEC fans see this, there will be much head-imploding and pants-wetting to go with the hissy fits.

We gots yer back when the attacks start, Jeff!

HAHAHAHA. I do love this, but I think we are also missing on important fact here. Look at the all might educational Mecca of michigan. Is it possible that a bunch of farmers from Ohio are actually better? Up yours michigan

Classic. Simply classic.

Why do not all the ‘D’ and ‘F’ ratings surprise me?

I showed this to a couple of friends that were SEC fans. They flipped. I had to explain 3 or 4 times that this was related to the states themselves not just the schools.

We know Vanderbilt is the SEC equivalent of Northwestern. They just didn’t realize the rest of Tennessee was bad haha!

While anything bashing the academic integrity of the dirty south makes me smile, I also have to question any statistics on education that place Kansas near the top of the heap in academic achievement.

Though I guess if “god did it” is an acceptable answer to most of the questions on your tests, it shouldn’t be terribly difficult to have comparatively good achievement scores.

As an LSU alum and SEC fan in general, there really is no argument for the states in which SEC schools are located.

Louisiana, for example, undoubtedly deserves to be near the bottom of the educational rankings. The entire public school system of the Greater New Orleans area probably contributes substantially — if not entirely — for the failing grade.

Hopefully this ranking ellicits change in the education systems of the Dirty South, but I would not hold my breath.

Uh, this is a study about K-12 education. It really has nothing to do with university-level achievement.

From Jeff at The BBC – The posting CLEARLY says that this study is about “states’ educational system”. I also even mentioned that my post was comparing Big Ten “states” to “states which hold SEC schools”.

But thank you, Frank. Thank you for proving my point that SEC states are lower down the totem pole when it comes to reading comprehension.

You even put an “uh” in there. Frank, just a note. You don’t have to type every word that comes from your mouth.

Jeff, qui mal somme, qui mal y pense!

I guess Tim Tebow needs to start a reading program down there instead of cutting off foreskins.

haha this is good, but unfortantly theyre still better than us when it comes to football. Too bad it doesnt carry over.

Superb!

Now, do you have any follow up data that correlates mouth breathing with fans of a conference as opposed to a team?