Is the Pac Ten and Big 12 really that good overall?

Question

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?page=bowlprojections12

If you look at the bottom of the article, the two conferences are not even projected to fill all available bowl slots while the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and the Big East are... what does that really say about the overall strength of those two conferences? Doesn't make Kansas, Missouri, USC, and Oregon look very good, huh?

Nice try Darth but as noted in the article, the Big 12 is not even projected to fill all of their available slots for bowl games and the Big Ten actually fills one of their slots. That doesn't say much for the Big 12.

Again this is overall, so that is why the Big 12 is so TOP heavy... because of the lack of competition within the conference... what else explains not being able to fill the available slots for the bowl games?

again this is not for a few good teams... this is overall... geez read the ENTIRE question people...

If you believe that, then explain Kansas' cupcake non-conference schedule.
And the NCAA has been allowing(until this year) numerous schools to "upgrade" to 1-A. The NCAA is to blame for that and also ONLY having the requirement that a college team has 6 wins against ANY 6 1-A teams, not specific 1-A schools or from specific conferences.
Don't play the non-conference factor. EVERY school has cupcakes on their schedule most years.

I see, so what you are saying, Lomario, is that while the Big 12 isn't that good, they are actually still #2 by default... not a bad line of thinking...

stupid asinine phikapp...
the SEC is probably the best all-around conference... even though LSU did lose to UK who played some cupcakes and still had trouble with them...

and "Geaux Tigers"??

that's the American way... trying to spell the word "go" with every vowel but "o"...
not exactly bright... puts you in line with people from West Virginia...

Answer 1

The Pac-10 is always overrated. Remember when Cal was #2? They are now 6-5 with a loss to a UCLA team that got blown out by Utah and lost to Notre Dame (who only beat Duke aside from UCLA). The Big 12 is top heavy. Kansas, Oklahoma, Mizzou, Texas is at the top. Then there's the rest. I still consider the Big 12 to be #2 at the moment because the ACC is not as good, nor is the Pac 10, the Big 10, or the Big East.

Answer 2

SEC is the best by far.
The only reason people think the Big 12 are any good is because they have 3 decent teams. Decent does not qualify you to be the best. The Pac-10 is better than the Big 12 by a slim margin because they have a team like Oregon, who would have 1 loss if it wasn't for Dixon going down.
The ACC has 2 decent teams, BC and VT...nothing great there either.
And the Big 10...please don't even get me started.
The only conference that plays anyone ranked is the SEC. playing 2 maybe 3 ranked teams a season is ridiculous.
Try playing 6 in the regular season, 1 in the conference championship, and 1 to finish out the National Title Game.

And the SEC did play teams that were good out of conference. I'd check all the teams schedules if I was you before spouting off about **** you know nothing about, ***-clown.

LSU National Champs
Geaux Tigers!!!!!

Answer 3

No, I do not believe the Big 10 is puffed up. And it has not anything to do with bowl matchups. No convention has favorable bowl matchups, considering if that had been the case, then meetings could be going undefeated in the course of the bowl season plenty extra almost always than they do. Most take into account it to be the 4th most powerful convention, at the back of the SEC, Big 12, and Pac 10. And that's often approximately proper. The crisis for the Big 10 is that too many men and women price the convention founded on how Ohio St. does in a bowl recreation, and completely omit the truth that Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin customarily participate in good in bowl video games.

Answer 4

Could also mean that a lot of teams in the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big East took the easy road to get to the 6 required wins by playing no one out of conference. Indiana and Purdue both have 7 wins, but their non-conference schedules are a joke. Same with Penn State, Arkansas, Kentucky, etc.

Answer 5

The PAC 10, please, give me a break. The best two conferences are the Big 12 and the SEC.

Answer 6

Big 12 is unquestionable: KU#2 ,MU#3, OU#10, Tx#13.

What else do you want???

Answer 7

well, if you look at the bcs ranking..

Big 12

Kansas #2
Missouri #3
Oklahoma #10
Texas #13

Pac 10

ASU #7
Oregon #9
USC #11