In honor of a nuked thread, which is the best football conference right now?

[ScribePharisee]

State your reasoning (optional).

 

[mustangj17]

1. SEC - Strong track record of winning big games against non-conference opponents. Historically strong from the top to the bottom. Worst SEC team is better than the worst team in any other conference (most years). As the saying goes, you are only as strong as your weakest member.

2. Big 12 - Top heavy this year. Teams are able to score in a hurry. The bottom may not be so good, but there are many deserving BCS teams from this conference for the second straight year.

3. Big Ten - Taken their lumps lately, but better in the middle then the rest including the Pac-10. USC would steamroll anyone in the Big 10 every year; but the Iowa's, MSU's Northwestern's and Wisconsin's of this world can rattle off 9 or 10 win seasons and come up big every once in a while.

Examples: Illinois, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Iowa, Wisconsin, Northwestern and Minnesota were all ranked in 2007 and or 2008.

 

[Flash]

No Campbell Conference? Damn ...

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

The one Atoms College was in.

 

[GB-Hack]

No Campbell Conference? Damn ...

Wales dammit!

 

[Tom Petty]

i went with the Wac.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

No way, man.

Big MAC attack.

 

[sportschick]

I came close to voting for the MAC, since they're the bastion of tolerance in the college football coaching ranks and all, but I went with the Mountain West instead :D


(Hey, it let me vote for three!)

 

[forever_town]

does your mother play in one of these conferences?

The WAC.

ACC roolz!

 

[forever_town]

No Campbell Conference? Damn ...

Wales dammit!

The Patrick Division had great potential, but the Adams Division held it back.

 

[Flash]

No love for Conn Smythe? What?

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The one Atoms College was in.

You mean the Adams Atoms?

[/Nerdstillawaitingvengeance]

 

[slappy4428]

This year, Big 12 and then the SEC.. no one else is even close.

 

[Tom Petty]

This year, Big 12 and then the SEC.. no one else is even close.

i see you as more of a wac guy.

 

[crusoes]

The Big Ten is a joke. A weak conference where 8-9-10-win seasons are made up of the marshmallows in its own conference and the creampuffs it schedules, then struggles to beat.

The bowl record speaks volumes.

 

[dixiehack]

The Sun Belt wants to know where they should mail the pipe bomb.

 

[ScribePharisee]

To the organizers of the New Orleans Bowl.

 

[JakeandElwood]

A top three of Big 12, SEC and Pac 10 seems pretty easy for me to pick. Deciding which is best is much tougher, though.

 

[the_lorax]

The Mountain West deserves serious love this year. 5-1 vs. the Pac-10, Utah beat Alabama, TCU beat Boise State and hung with Oklahoma as well as anyone (outside of honorary national champ Texas)

 

[mustangj17]

The Big Ten is a joke. A weak conference where 8-9-10-win seasons are made up of the marshmallows in its own conference and the creampuffs it schedules, then struggles to beat.

The bowl record speaks volumes.

I don't know what you are talking about. Indiana and Michigan had great programs this year. ;D