You said the vast majority were top SEC teams against bottom feeders from other conferences. Here’s who the top 6 SEC teams played:

Texas played Michigan(finished 7th of 18 in BIG)
Georgia played Clemson and GTech(2nd and 6th of 17)
Tennessee played NC State(10th of 17)
Alabama played Wisconsin(15th of 18)
Ole Miss played Wake Forest(15th of 17)
South Carolina played Clemson(2nd of 17)

That’s 7 games. 4 of which are against teams in the top half of their conference. Alabama and Ole Miss definitely played bottom feeders, but the others didn’t…and the SEC went 7-0 in these games.