Conference Strength
- GKCruey
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- JeffH_6
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» GKCruey - If Conference Strength Could be Measured by Bowl Bids...
If Conference Strength Could be Measured by Bowl Bids, it would be obvious that the SEC, with 66% of it's teams going to bowls games, is the strongest major conference in the NCAA. How do the others rank?
8 or 12 SEC teams are going: 66%
6 of 10 Pac-10 teams are going: 60%
5 of 9 ACC teams are going: 55.55%
6 of 12 Big 12 teams...: 50%
4 of 8 Big East teams... 50%
and the weakest major conference?
5 of 11 Big Ten teams have bowl bids: 45%
-- posted by GKCruey
» JeffH_6 - Conference Strength
Conference strengths are determined pretty much the same way most other aspects of the game are these days; money, television, and politics.Any team who finishes one game over .500 does not belong in a bowl game, I don't care who they are or who they played. However, we all know that there are some schools who are going bowling based soley upon who they are, and most of the time selection committees are careful to provide them with an opponent who they can almost surely beat.
The SEC, ACC, Big Ten, and PAC 10 are all fine conferences, who possess some schools who are among the best in the country year in and year out. However, I do not believe these conferences should have schools going to bowl games with 6-5 records while a school whith an 8-3 or even 10-1 record sits at home because they do not play in the right conference.
Actually, there are too many post-season bowls being played today. Bowl games used to be a reward for schools who posted a really good season, but anymore they are little more than a way to promote some corporatation, and make some already wealthy school more money.
Of course this falls in line with most of the rest of our society today, where everyone is handed what they want based upon who they are as opposed to whether or not they earned it.
-- posted by JeffH_6
» GKCruey - SEC players drafted
With the first round of the draft now just over, I counted 8 SEC player taken -- just under 26% of the players take.The Big 10 came in second, with 5 players take from it....
The verdict of professional sports, I would say, is that the SEC is the strongest conference.
-- posted by GKCruey
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