Yes we will be consensus #3 Monday in all polls.
SEC has been the best baseball and football conference for 20 years. Basketball it was Florida in the 2000s and Kentucky in the 2010s (and historically) and a bunch of also-rans. This year hoops came out of nowhere. Best hoops teams have historically been ACC and Big East / Big 12 to a lesser extent. I agree with your point in basketball but there’s no arguing it in baseball or football.
People don’t remember how good the Big 12 was in football and baseball pre 2006. It was the best conference in football from inception-‘05 and on par with SEC during that time and even at times into the late aughts or early 2010s with TCU, Tech and Texas making multiple CWS appearances. And in football, I always laughed at the notion we wouldn’t be SEC ready. The comparison in the waning SWC days is eerie, because we were more middling then, joining the best football conference in ‘96, as we were in 2024. Sark remade our roster just in time.