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Originally Posted by GoldenBears
This is infinitely better than Mandel's "whoever donates the most money is the best conference" ploy.
I would maintain that the Pac-10 has among the best (Arizona, Arizona State, arguably USC depending on your taste) and the worst (Stanford, Berkeley).
SEC is pretty competitive top to bottom, Big-12 could put up a fight with Texas coming in at #1 in the country overall in my unbiased opinion, because I watch Texas games.
IMO Pac 10's fourth hottest school (Oregon? Wazzu? UCLA?) is hotter than at least one other conference's top school, ergo is on par with the top school in most conferences.
Just like in football, Stanford, Northwestern and Duke are all terrible.
You are lost son.
OU is the BCS beast of the conference. They will contend for the National Championship this year. Texas will have a hard time finishing 2nd in the South division.
1 game sample size makes Sagarin's predictor pretty much meaningless, especially considering the teams played but the Big 12 has 9 teams finishing in the top 35 in the predictor.
This isn't just a Texas conference anymore, Missouri and Kansas have made the North division more than respectable again, they have made the North tough. Nebraska is getting back on track, they have actually had the players and good recruiting classes, just the wrong coach w/ the wrong system. KState is another team that is getting back to respectable--they have routed Texas the last two years.
Texas Tech has the best player in the country with one of the best QB's in the country throwing to him. Now they actually have "some" defense that could make them a top 15ish team.
This is the best QB conference in the country.
Don't sleep on them anymore.