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Machiavelli, Dunning, and SEC Recruiting

The SEC (Southeastern Conference) is a group of schools in the southeastern part of the nation that makes up an athletic conference similar in many ways to the Big Ten. For the past 10+ years, the SEC has been by far the most dominant team in college football. Winning 7 of the last 8 National Championships, and currently holding 5 out of the top 10 spots in the weekly AP poll of top teams. Very few people would argue about the strength of the SEC in recent memory, but where the controversy starts is in how they came to be so great at college football – and that’s where Machiavellianism comes in.

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