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Did any conference other than the SEC schedule as many easy teams as possible to drive up their bogus ranking in the east coast biased New York City media polls.

wrong sorry

Sorry Big 12 lost 2 games...

Big 12 played 2 ranked opponents, 13 and 20...SEC played two ranked games, 7 and 9...

SEC wrote:

Did any conference other than the SEC go 10-1 this weekend?

SEC non-conference schedule = cup cake party!

Every college team schedules some easy games, usually at the beginning of the season. USC played SJSU. UCLA played SDSU. But not all SEC non-con games are cupcakes.

For some of the non-conference games, SEC teams face these opponents:

Alabama: #7 Va Tech

Arkansas: Texas A&M

Auburn: West Virgina

Florida: #18 Florida St

Georgia: #9 Oklahoma St & Arizona St & #15 Georgia Tech

Kentucky: Louisville

LSU: Washington

Mississippi: Memphis

Mississippi State: #15 Georgia Tech

South Carolina: North Carolina St & Clemson

Tennessee: UCLA

Vanderbilt: Army

ok, I agree Tennessee, Georgia, and LSU really shouldn't schedule those cupcake Pac-10 games

UF's toughest non-conference game is FSU. Their other non conference games are Charleston Southern, Troy, and FIU!!

Talk about weak!!

So who's your fav team and what does their non-conference schedule look like?

what was the head to head record?

Man, this debate just never gets old does it? We will never, can never settle it until:

1.) Every MAJOR conference has the same number of teams. That means the Big 10 (11) picks up one and the Pac-10 picks up two. And they can't be patsies, so, the Big 11 gets Notre Dame for obvious reasons and the Pac-10 gets Boise State and someone else (take your pick - Utah, BYU, Nevada, Hawaii,... in any given year any of these teams are solid).

2.) Every conference plays a conference championship game (or doesn't play it). These games ALWAYS have major repercussions.

3.) Every team in every major conference has to play at least TWO other major, nonconference opponents during the year, one on the road and one at home - preferably one early and one late. The year CU won the national championship, they played Tennessee, Washington, AND Illinois, all of them respectable and bowl-bound that year.

4.) The top eight at the end of the year (and this is what makes every game of the regular season STILL MATTER) get bids to the four major bowls (Rose, Fiesta, Orange, Sugar). Or, you can take the winners of the six major conferences and have two "at-large" bids, an idea I'm not really a proponent of but could find acceptable. The winners of the four major bowls get seeded and then you play them off. Shy of that, you keep the BCS system as is and have a "plus-one."

Until we meet these criteria, we can suspect, but never KNOW if there is parity in any given year. Last year, everyone was down on the Pac-10, and, yet, they came out shining in the bowls. The year before, the Big 12 had the best record and either went undefeated or had only one loss AGAINST the spread. So, while I may think the SEC and Big 12 are the deepest conferences generally, it is far from a certainty in any given year.

well said.

SEC teams schedule easy non conference because they get the strength of schedule from in conference games. there is no need to go out of conference. They don't need the revenue, and they want to win as many as possible in order to get to a bowl game. Why do it any other way? Watch an SEC game, these are without a doubt (generalization yet mostly true) the biggest fastest and strongest players in the country. Coaches dont want to beat their players up any more than the regular season already does.

The only way a playoff will ever happen is by adding a plus-one championship game after the BCS bowls. Then it'll be a 4-team playoff. There's no way the NCAA will ever drastically abandon the lucrative bowl games to suddenly go to a 16-team playoff.

I don't think the SEC is overhyped as the toughest football conference. Year in and year out, the entire conference has the better recruiting classes and as a conference sends more players to the pros. That said, that doesn't mean the SEC champion should always play in the BCS title game. It should be settled on the field where everyone has a shot.

The SEC may just be the best defensive conference. The Big 12 may just be the best offensive conference. Then you have teams like USC or West Virginia or Utah in any given year that shake things up. I have not been shy about my opinion, though, that the two best teams at the end of the season for three years running now were the SEC champ and USC. Not the two teams that deserved to be in the championship game according to the current standard, but the two very BEST teams. And, frankly, the year Auburn went undefeated, but OU and USC met up in the Orange Bowl for the title still confounds me to this day. Same with Nebraska-Miami, where Oregon got screwed.

They are called "tune up" games, which get you ready for the tough SEC schedule. What conference has won the last 3 BCS Championships?

as much as i'd love to sit here and talk shit... My favorite team, Texas, is just as guilty as anyone else as well... Louisiana-Monroe? but when you have to play Ok St., Oklahoma, Texas Tech, and the Big 12... you're gonna need an off week...

The same thing that keeps SEC and Big 12 type teams strong (beat your ranked conference teams, beat the snot out of non-conference) is the same type of thing that keeps the Mid-Majors arguing for bowl bids (Beat a ranked opponent early and then run the table in your mid-major conference)... It's college football, blowouts and upsets every week

oh and no hate to mid-majors... i think there should be a playoff system IMO...

I thought Obama said that the NCAA had to change the BCS system?

SEC wrote:

Did any conference other than the SEC go 10-1 this weekend?

Actually the Big Ten went 10-1.

and their loss was to the big 12 and so was the sec's

Big Ten, did go 10-1, but did not face any ranked opponents...also Iowa (22) almost lost to an unranked opponent (17-16) Ohio State (6) almost lost to an unranked opponent (31-27) and another went to overtime... clearly Big Ten is great