On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Won Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Incorrect. It is the easiest to go undefeated in the BIG ten as long as you > are not OSU or UMush. This is because they almost always never play a round > robin and they have no conference championship game. Since OSU and UMush > play every year and they are the traditional powerhouses of the conference > they have a tougher time going undefeated then the rest of the teams that > may or may not have to play either OSU or UMush. Of course the pollsters > will punish you if you go undefeated by avoiding either OSU or UMush. That > happened to WIS not too long ago.
Weird, I had it in my head that the Big 10 was a full round robin format. My mistake. > I will agree with your assessment that it is harder to go undefeated playing > a PAC10 schedule..this year. The PAC10 is just that strong this year. > People like to write about the fall of USC but the real story is how much > better the PAC10 has gotten. I can't remember where I heard or read it, but > it is rumored that Phil Knight is really really really trying to bring a BCS > championship to Oregon. Other years the SEC will probably be harder. Just > so happened that Georgia and LSU were worse than we thought they would be. > Tenn was also a mild disappointment. A full round robin in league is tough no matter what year you are in. Overall, the Pac 10 has been better the last 5 to 10 years top to bottom than it has historically but even in down years there has always been 6 quality teams. Those teams change year to year of course. The SEC has, historically, had some very good teams, no doubt. Bama, LSU, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, etc. But since they split it up into East and West, each division only has maybe 3 quality teams and the top teams get to pad their schedule. Overall the SEC is a great conference. If they played something close to a round robin, it would be the strongest conference in most years, hands down. But the way they schedule, the big boys get to avoid a lot of the other big boys in conference and so the overall strength of the conference doesn't translate into tough games on the field as much as it should. > Does any of this excuse FLA for scheduling FIU? Probably not but FLA is in > it to make runs at the national title. If they have to bully FIU along the > way that is what they are going to do. Personally, I'm hoping the > Liar-Supreme beats FLA and then loses to TEX in the title game. Hook'em? I understand why the SEC schedules the way it does. And why it sure as hell looks like the refs have been in the bag to make sure that Florida and Bama stay undefeated until they meet in the championship. It is worth a ridiculous amount of money to the conference to get 2 teams into the BCS. I just don't think it does much credit for college football in ge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308491 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
