Leftists Beg College Athletes to Ditch SEC Schools in States with Redistricting

Ask anyone in the South, and they can confirm to you that college football is more or less a religion there.

In particular, the Southeastern Conference — better known by its acronym of SEC — has become one of the crowning jewels for Southern football fans.

The conference is known for producing swathes of NFL-caliber players, dynasties like Alabama, and consistent top-tier programs like Georgia.

While the proliferation of college athletic money has somewhat closed the gap between the SEC and its fellow power conferences, the conference is still viewed as the gold standard of college football (though some fans are quick to call the conference overrated, that’s a longer discussion for a different piece).

Given the left’s often-loud disdain for religion, perhaps it should come as little surprise that progressives are now going after the SEC.

And it’s all got to do with politics.

According to the Associated Press,