Despite having gone 7-6 during their first season competing in the SEC, the Oklahoma Sooners should be counting their lucky stars that Lincoln Riley is instead with the USC Trojans. That’s what prominent college football analyst Paul Finebaum believes, anyway.

Now you know when SMU head coach Rhett Lashlee threw shade at the SEC, that it wouldn’t go unchallenged, especially from SEC host and college football analyst, Paul Finebaum. Let’s just say Finebaum took offense to what Lashlee had to say about the conference he covers.

Around the world of college football, the SEC is well known as the most elite conference in the nation for its strength of schedules, rivalries, and cut-throat competition. Year in and year out, SEC teams sit at the top of the rankings and make their way to the College Football Playoffs.