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Please think before you post. This statement above is absurd. I said the Pac 10 was the toughest conference from the years 2000-2003 based on the numbers I provided. Based on these seperate numbers, the ACC was the toughest conference "last" season. (has nothing to do with the years 2000-2003, just last season. Why is that so hard to understand?
The reason USC did not qualify for the BCS Championship game was SOS. Not USC fault, as USC schedule before the season was a top 10 SOS. Remember, despite the Pac 10 having a down year, and USC OOC opponents tanking. LSU only edged out USC by .15 in the final BCS standings. YES, only .15. So on an average year, LSU would have been completely shut out because the media would never have given LSU a share of the NC. So if your bragging about LSU getting in over USC by .15 BCS pts (despite down pac 10 year and OOC opponants tanking) then thats not a strong argument. In fact it weakens your argument because on a normal year I would bet USC would have passed LSU by at least a full point. In addition, if the PAC 10 is so weak, why did USC have the #1 SOS 2 years ago?
How come in a down year for the PAC 10, they were still a tougher conference than the SEC if you calculate the power rankings and SOS of the top 3 and bottom 3 teams in both conferences????? Your weak counter argument is that it factors in OOC games. Why are you against factoring in OOC opponents? That is a great way to judge how tough a conference is. It is pretty difficult to judge how tough a conference is based on only playing each other. That is the reason why people think the SEC and other conferences are so tough. They rack up easy wins in OOC play, and get many teams ranked in the top 25. In addition, these same teams in these conferences "often" miss out on playing 1 or 2 of the tougher teams in the conference.
If you just want to factor conference play, then explain this. If LSU went 8-0 in conference play, and USC went 6-2 in conference play and both won the conference title. Who has the tougher conference? How do you judge that? How do you judge SOS based solely on conference play? Power rankings??? Makes no sense.
Really? Then how come objective data proves your statement wrong? Especially if our opinion is downright "misguided and misinformed." :lol: I think you got it backwards. You fail to bring up anything to support the SEC or BIG 12 being tougher, other than your opinion. I have hard core factual data that you cannot dispute supporting my claim. I think you make yourself look foolish and you are clearly ignorant.
You guys are some piece of work, by virtue of your "numbers" you should be posting that the ACC is the toughest conference in football. It's the same rationale. They're your numbers. You are basing your judgement of the Pac 10 being the toughest conference based on those numbers, and yet your numbers indicate that the ACC is the toughest conference!! If you hold so much stock in what these numbers say, why would you bother to claim the Pac 10 is so tough?
Please think before you post. This statement above is absurd. I said the Pac 10 was the toughest conference from the years 2000-2003 based on the numbers I provided. Based on these seperate numbers, the ACC was the toughest conference "last" season. (has nothing to do with the years 2000-2003, just last season. Why is that so hard to understand?
The reason USC did not qualify for the BCS Championship game was SOS. Not USC fault, as USC schedule before the season was a top 10 SOS. Remember, despite the Pac 10 having a down year, and USC OOC opponents tanking. LSU only edged out USC by .15 in the final BCS standings. YES, only .15. So on an average year, LSU would have been completely shut out because the media would never have given LSU a share of the NC. So if your bragging about LSU getting in over USC by .15 BCS pts (despite down pac 10 year and OOC opponants tanking) then thats not a strong argument. In fact it weakens your argument because on a normal year I would bet USC would have passed LSU by at least a full point. In addition, if the PAC 10 is so weak, why did USC have the #1 SOS 2 years ago?
How come in a down year for the PAC 10, they were still a tougher conference than the SEC if you calculate the power rankings and SOS of the top 3 and bottom 3 teams in both conferences????? Your weak counter argument is that it factors in OOC games. Why are you against factoring in OOC opponents? That is a great way to judge how tough a conference is. It is pretty difficult to judge how tough a conference is based on only playing each other. That is the reason why people think the SEC and other conferences are so tough. They rack up easy wins in OOC play, and get many teams ranked in the top 25. In addition, these same teams in these conferences "often" miss out on playing 1 or 2 of the tougher teams in the conference.
If you just want to factor conference play, then explain this. If LSU went 8-0 in conference play, and USC went 6-2 in conference play and both won the conference title. Who has the tougher conference? How do you judge that? How do you judge SOS based solely on conference play? Power rankings??? Makes no sense.
The Pac 10 is decent, but for you guys to claim it is the toughest conference in america is just downright misguided and misinformed.
Really? Then how come objective data proves your statement wrong? Especially if our opinion is downright "misguided and misinformed." :lol: I think you got it backwards. You fail to bring up anything to support the SEC or BIG 12 being tougher, other than your opinion. I have hard core factual data that you cannot dispute supporting my claim. I think you make yourself look foolish and you are clearly ignorant.
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