Is Pac-20 football too dominant?

[tlongII]

Definitely the best conference for college football.

[tlongII]

East coast bias.

[leemajors]

greatness

[j-6]

the Pac-10 has to be above average considering the other conferences out there...right? i think they are good. that being said...

you're right on with the rest of this post. i posted an article about this very same thing a little while back, and of course, it got no attention. the pac 10 consistently plays tough OOC schedules and you hit the nail on the head...theres a reason a pac 10 team comes up and bites USC almost each year.

so here's the question j-6...whats more difficult, the USC schedule? or the system of their schedule?

There's way too much to consider to break it down that easily. The Pac-10's superior academics made UT knock on its door fifteen years ago so keep in mind this isn't all about football. What I gather is that the conference likes being how it is - sort of like the Big Ten - and isn't going to bow down to doing things the way everyone else does. Which in turn screws its member schools to a degree and the entire NCAA a little further. Since they have to play each other so often, and there's a finite amount of games the NCAA allows a team to play, they're on a island of sorts. Add in that they are 2-3 hours behind the majority of the country and basically SC gets two revolving games a season (Notre Dame is as regular of an opponent as UCLA.). Why the would they want to go play Ohio State and some random SEC team for something as fleeting as national respect when they have nine straight conference games that mean something? Just the fact that they played the Bucks says quite a bit.

In the old days, the winner of the Pac-10 went to the Rose Bowl. It was pretty simple - win a conference le and play the Big 10 winner. Now with all this poll and computer business and an actual BCS le game, public perception is that the Pac-10 isn't a heavyweight even though you can legitimately argue that in football they demand more from each member than any other league in the country. Conference le games make for great TV and a definitive champion, but as a Longhorn I saw firsthand what happens when it's not decided on the field and a tiebreak is involved. The old Pac-10/ Big 10 had a very reasonable system in place - the team that's waited the longest to play in Pasadena wins the berth.

I've read the whole scenario about inviting Utah and Colorado, putting Notre Dame in the Big 10, and letting TCU into the Big 12. I don't know if that's the answer when we aren't getting a playoff in the near future. It is what it is for now.

[benefactor]

[Cant_Be_Faded]

the pac-20 is so dominant

tlong just injected a shot of black heroin into his junk to overcome this s acking