College Football Preview: When Will the SEC's Reign End?  The
last time a team outside the conference won the national
championship was 2005. Will it ever happen again?    Guys, the
new college football season smells like chicken. Southern fried.
Again. And if you're not the kind to have grits for breakfast,
the SEC's domination of every other football conference is
getting a little dull. The last team from outside the all-mighty
SEC to win a national championship was Texas, all the way back
in 2005 when Vince Young galloped roughshod over USC. Since
then, your BCS winners list reads like the lyrics to a Lynyrd
Skynyrd song; Alabama twice, Florida twice, plus Auburn and LSU.
This year, the big are getting humongous-er. That's no surprise
if you know your Civil War history—and that history repeats.
Way back in November of 1861, the State of Missouri officially
declared itself to be no longer part of the United States. They
quit the country and were admitted as the 12th state of the
Confederacy. Exactly 150 y