TEMPE, AZ---Our AirTran Airways flight touched down at 8:15 p.m. local time here in Phoenix Friday night.

"Welcome to Phoenix," the captain said. "It's 95 degrees."

A moan rushed through the plane full of mostly drunk Georgia Football Fans.

So here we are. The South has arrived out West. We bring with us a passion for college football that is second to none as well as the ability to swill beer with the best of 'em. Oh, we also, as always, bring a group of beautiful women. Girls who attend Georgia games are...well, let's just say next to watching the game, watching them is my favorite Autumn Saturday afternoon pastime.

It's hard to say how the Dawgs will fare here in the desert. But one thing we know for sure, Pac Ten football, as we say in the Deep South: "Just ain't it."

I will go to my grave believing that football in the western part of the US--except for Southern Cal--is far inferior to the football we play in the SEC. Despite the orange-clad hillbillies from Knoxville to UCLA on Labor Day, our type of football is superior. The Dawgs games against Boise State and Hawaii over the past few years have supported that idea. I know the WAC teams are not like Pac Ten teams, but the margin of difference is not that much.

Let's face it: if you're an Arizona State fan, you look forward to the USC game, the Arizona game and, on occasion, the game against Oregon. That's it. There is no regular battle with the likes of UGA, Florida (gag), Alabama, Auburn, LSU and Tennessee.

Last weekend, after the Dawgs pounded and bled their way to a win over South Carolina, a friend of mine was told by another fan that, "the SEC is down this year."

Hmm...last time I checked...the SEC had five of the top ten teams in the nation.

Mind you, I am not the type to want to: "Win one for the SEC." I want to win one for Georgia. I could care less about how many games the other teams in the SEC win. As a matter of fact, I want every other team in the conference to LOSE every weekend. But the fact is SEC football is superior.

Don't need a "moron" at ESPN to tell me otherwise. Don't have to have a Dawgs win to prove it.

If we lose, then our National Championship hopes will take a hit. That's the bad news. The good news, win or lose, we get to return to the South where the women are beautiful, the beer is cold and the football is still in the best in the nation.