Danny Kanell says SEC teams are "terrified" of going north for CFP games, but he's ignoring that Texas A&M football is built for it
Danny Kanell is once again taking needless shots at SEC teams. In other news, water is wet.
The former Florida State quarterback has made something of a reputation for himself from being a hater of all things SEC. This more often than not is a fruitless exercise, as numbers and on-field results prove that the Southeastern Conference is the deepest and most prestigious conference in the land.
Even so, he continues to try to find ways to get under the skin of SEC fans. His most recent tactic is proclaiming with the usual bluster that teams from the conference footprint are "terrified" of traveling north to face off with a Big 10 team in a CFP matchup.
This pretty much has to do with the cold weather in the northern part of the country. Since SEC teams obviously play down south where it's unbearably hot for most of the year, and most of the players are from that area of the country anyway, Kanell's logic is that they would be forced to play in an environment to which they are extremely unaccustomed, and therefore the home team would have an advantage.
First of all, you don't really see many Big 10 teams playing night games at this time of year anyway, so it's not like this would be a huge advantage for a team used to playing in the bitter cold—that's simply not what would be happening.
Second of all, if the Aggies are one of the teams to make the CFP (as they still have a shot to do), then they are straight-up exempt from this criticism. It would make more sense to levy against a pass-heavy team, but this is an Aggie squad that has made its name in the run game. Their ground-and-pound style, if anything, would benefit from these conditions.