Which college football conference is the worst for scheduling weak teams?

Question

SEC
ACC
BIG 10
PAC 10
BIG EAST

Back it up with the teams scheduled including Div 2AA teams that we know some sechdule.

Answer 1

Sorry to break it to lcmcpa, but it's the SEC. Who you play in conference isn't the issue; it's your non-conference scheduling that sucks. The SEC teams load their non-conference schedules up with Sun Belt teams (who shouldn't be Division IA) and the like, because the system doesn't reward you on who you play, just on what your record is. The SEC has done this for years, and years, and years.

Examples just from this season:
Louisiana-Monroe playing Alabama, Arkansas, and Kentucky
Florida International playing Alabama
Utah State playing Arkansas
Southeast Missouri State playing Arkansas
Buffalo playing Auburn
Western Carolina playing Florida
Western Kentucky playing Georgia
Texas State playing Kentucky
Louisiana-Lafayette playing LSU
Northwestern State playing Mississippi
Jacksonville State playing Mississippi State (though MSU needs all the help it can get)
Wofford playing South Carolina
Florida Atlantic playing South Carolina
Tennessee State playing Vanderbilt

Other teams throughout the country have obviously tipped off on this type of scheduling, because they do it as well. Virginia Tech, Nebraska, Miami and Florida State (especially now that playing each other is a conference game), Kansas State, Texas Tech, Texas A&M (especially this year), and now even many Big East teams are scheduling Division I-AA opponents to get that one extra gate and that one extra win.

When the NCAA made the 12th game permanent, all it did was give these schools the opportunity to play one more cupcake. Until some sort of playoff system is in place where strength-of-schedule is a major component, you're going to continue to see this type of scheduling, and alumni and fans are going to continue to get soaked by the schools, making them pay $45-70 a ticket to see them beat up on Central Upper Nebraska Tech and the South Harmon Institute of Technology.

And there are only 5 ranked teams on Florida's schedule, not 8, the same number that Southern California plays this year.

Answer 2

It's not the Pac 10 because now that they play all 9 teams in the conference they can only schedule 3 non conference games.

Answer 3

Well how the hell are you going to blame them. for example Florida played Southern Miss to open the season a pretty good team.after they play a cupcake game against Central Florida they go to Tennessee,at home vs Kentucky and then they play four straight games against Alabama LSU Auburn and Georgia and then they play Vanderbilt and South Carolina and another cupcake game and Florida State and then they go and play the SEC Championship. they play 8 ranked teams in 13 games now how is that a weak schedule in fact its the hardest schedule in the country

Answer 4

It can't be the SEC because too many of them are ranked teams. Go Gators!!! FSU does that a lot, aren't they in the Big East?