You can sit there and talk about how tough UTEP is, or Northern Arizona, or New Mexico State, or Indiana, or Idaho, or San Diego State, or Colorado, or Northwestern, or Illinois, or Virginia Tech the PAC 10 plays; but the actual FACTS of the matter are completely known while you say those are tougher than the SEC plays - looking at PART OF THE PICTURE when the WHOLE PICTURE IS COMPLETELY KNOWN.
2003-2004 PAC 10 Official Final BCS Strengths of Schedules (LINK provided at the beginning of this Post.) shows that IN FACT, the PAC 10 had 2 of the toughest Top 24 Strength of Schedules, while the SEC had 7 of the toughest Top 22 Strength of Schedules in the nation.
LSU was just one of 6 SEC teams with a tougher Strength of Schedule IN FACT than Southern Cal at SOS # 13 last year for LSU, which is why the SEC LSU played in the National Championship Game and why of course Southern Cal with SOS worse than 6 of the SEC teams did NOT as we all recall your Southern Cal opponents on your ENTIRE SCHEDULE IN FACT : # 76 Brigham Young 4-8, # 50 Hawaii, # 35 Berkeley who you LOST to, # 69 Arizona State 4-7, # 67 Stanford 4-7, # 47 Notre Dame 5-7, # 51 Washington without a winning record EITHER, # 88 Arizona 2-10, # 59 UCLA also with a LOSING RECORD, and # 31 Oregon State. And, you did NOT even play # 37 Oregon.
The ENTIRE PAC 10 was NOT RANKED with but 2 teams of the ENTIRE PAC 10 CONFERENCE ranked in the Top 30 of the Final Official BCS Rankings (LINK PROVIDED IN THIS POST AT THE END.), while the SEC had by DIRECT COMPARISON 7 of the Top 27 Teams in the Final Official BCS Rankings.
LINK AT END OF THIS POST :
2 of the Top 30 Final Official NCAA BCS Rankings Teams 2003-2004 PAC 10
7 of the Top 27 Final Official NCAA BCS Rankings Teams 2003-2004 SEC
FACTOID, according to THE Authority we ALL AGREED would DETERMINE this FACTOID - the BCS we ALL play for.
Southern Cal played 3 games the entire season against Top 30 teams in the Final Official BCS Rankings and you LOST a game. How did that make you BCS # 1 ? It did NOT; that is how it did ? NOT. LSU is # 1 in the Official NCAA BCS.
Try to put any SPIN on this you want, but the bottom line is that a schedule of whom it is you play in a season are ALL THE GAMES and are the teams IN FACT that you DO PLAY against. You just wish you could CHANGE THE SUBJECT to some subpart of that STINKY SCHEDULE Southern Cal played last year OR that STINKY SCHEDULE Southern Cal PLAYS YET AGAIN THIS SEASON.
In our conference, we have a Championship Game which we ALONE STARTED in college football here in the SEC, and that is a huge push for our TOP TEAM ? such as how LSU jumped past Southern Cal IN FACT because of the STINKY STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE Southern Cal played preventing it from EVEN BEING IN THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.
It is ALSO how Oklahoma was in the BCS National Championship Game and NOT Southern Cal TOO; for they TOO played a tougher SOS than Southern Cal.
As we ALL RECALL completely.
And, you know it.
Now, this year, Southern Cal plays a season of # 64 Strength of Schedule according to THESE WebPages where you post this post right here where you are :
http://www.nationalchamps.net/2004/sos/index.htm
Who gives a crap about out of conference schedules (Like Southern Cal?s LAST YEAR or THIS YEAR are diddle-e-squat when they are NOT.), when IN CONFERENCE, you had IN FACT :
# 88 Arizona
# 69 Arizona State
# 67 Stanford
# 59 UCLA
# 51 Washington
# 37 Oregon
# 35 Berkeley
# 31 Oregon State
Your whole ENTIRE CONFERENCE SUCKED IN FACT. Not to mention Southern Cal?s out of conference slate of :
# 76 Brigham Young
# 50 Hawaii
# 47 Notre Dame
This is called a schedule for an ENTIRE SEASON and any spin you dream up will STILL LEAVE YOU ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN because of your STINKY STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE of THESE OPPONENTS of Southern Cal IN FACT.
Southern Cal played a lousy Strength of Schedule last season in total ? not some crap about the PAC 10 plays harder SOS than the SEC does out of conference ? just as Southern Cal is doing AGAIN NOW THIS UP-COMING SEASON.
While the SEC played IN FACT 7 of the Top 22 Strength of Schedules including out of conference and IN CONFERENCE according to the Final Official BCS SOS (YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE SCHEDULE, AND NOT PART THEREOF ? ) and 6 SEC teams of which were IN FACT tougher schedules than Southern Cal's IN FACT was, the PAC 10 played 2 of the Top 24 Strength of Schedules by comparison.
2 of the Top 24 Strength of Schedules in Final BCS SOS Rankings PAC 10
7 of the Top 22 Strength of Schedules in Final BCS SOS Rankings SEC
FACTOID.
According to THE Authority on this TOPIC too - NOT YOU saying "The PAC 10 plays tougher out of conference schedules than The SEC does." PAC 10 SOS find IN FACT 6 SEC teams HARDER than Southern Cal's LAST YEAR and now this year
ALL 12 SEC TEAMS HAVE A TOUGHER SOS THAN SOUTHERN CAL IN FACT HAS 2004.
The ISSUE remains SOUTHERN CAL?S LOUSY # 64 Strength of Schedule NOW YET AGAIN THIS UPCOMING YEAR ? not that the SEC had IN FACT 7 of the Top 22 SOS last year while the PAC 10 had but 2 of the Top 24 SOS last year by direct comparison IN FACT.
Thank you for posting an ENTIRE THREAD ABOUT THIS throughout the summer while I worked, so that I could NOW reply to IT about the sorry SOS of Southern Cal LAST YEAR AND NOW AGAIN THIS YEAR.
EVERY YEAR because the PAC 10 SUCKS compared to the SEC, and YOU and EVERYONE ELSE with p-jealousy about The SEC, knows it.
You bring ALL THE WRONG ATTENTION TO SOUTHERN CAL trying to paint some FALSE IMPRESSION that the PAC 10 plays tougher SOS than the SEC as you did IN THAT SUBJECT POST YESTERDAY while I worked. The actual OFFICIAL NCAA BCS STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RANKINGS (Link provided in this post at the beginning of this post.) are COMPLETELY KNOWN TO ALL.
Southern Cal can make NO CLAIM to being # 1 this up-coming year while you play but 1 Top 25 team, and it Berkeley who BEAT YOU LAST YEAR.
The SEC is the TOP CONFERENCE and NOT JUST because LSU is # 1 Official NCAA BCS National Champions, but because there were 7 SEC teams who played in fact according to the BCS the Top 22 Strength of Schedules while the PAC 10 had 2 of the top 24 SOS (LINK at begining of this post.) AND because the SEC had IN FACT 7 of the Top 27 in the Final Official NCAA BCS Rankings while the PAC 10 had but 2 of the Top 30.
Now, tell me AGAIN how Southern Cal is NOT PLAYING A STINKY STRENGTH of SCHEDULE for the 2nd YEAR IN A ROW NOW THIS YEAR ?
I MISSED THAT ?
http://www.geocities.com/rtell/bcsc.html
