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It's hard to do, but to me the conference rankings would be:
SEC
Big XII
Pac 10 / Big 10
ACC
'big gap'
Big East
'big gap'
all the mid majors
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I think that in an "average" season this would be close to what most think.
this year however? Completely different story.
The Pac 10 IMO is the single strongest conference of the bunch this year. The SEC simply isnt what it normally is and certainly the Big 12 with the OK and Texas teams being no more than average would fall in the same boat,
Honestly...Missouri and Kansas are the two best teams in that conference? Brutal when you look at it. Mizz is a good ball team often, but Kansas is an aberation and I wonder that todays game will show this in spades.
The Big 10 this season was WEAK...period. Beyond OSU they had nothing that is impressive. In fact the Big East (cant believe im saying this actually) is a better conference this year.
The ACC was just god awful between Clemson/Fla St./ VT/and others all choking away semi-big games.
As for bowl games, if Mizz wins today and next week they deserve a shot in the championshiip game, no question. I have a feeling however that a HUGE letdown after the game today will be the undoing of whomever wins.
WVU is in the best position right now. Beat the cinderella Conneticuit team today and they cruise to the championship game. IF the Big 12 winner is OK and not Mizz nor Kansas, then that lets OSU waltz into that game as well. (OSU really needs to alter their schedule IMo and at least start later or play another non-conference game)
My preference though is to see OSU and USC line up in the Rose Bowl so the country can see that although USC screwed up early this season against Stanford, they are still among the top 3 teams in the nation.