Best conference in college football?

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

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Both have 1 natty and a lot of what ifs

 

[Jakology]

Do SEC players transition to NFL easier than other college guys?

Breaking down NFL rosters by conferences and colleges

Well yeah. The SEC was king for a long time last decade. That's why their numbers are padded.

 

[B_dub]

Ranking the top B1G teams, I think it is: OSU, MSU, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, NW, Penn State, Nebraska
Ranking the top PAC teams, I get: Stanford, Oregon, USC, Utah, WSU, UCLA

So the B1G-PAC results are:

PAC #1 beats B1G #5
B1G #3 beats PAC #3
B1G #8 beats PAC #6

I guess I don't see how the bowls suggest the PAC is better than the B1G. As Nebraska and Minnesota proved, even weak B1G teams would beat the cupcakes the rest of the PAC played.

 

[WizardHawk]

Iowa beat one team ranked above them on my list (Us) in a game where they were outgained almost 3:2 and won because our QB tripped over his injured center on the 1 yard line and threw it down to an Iowa player.

The B1G schedules are horribly unbalanced. We went 13-3 the last two years playing no one good. We open next year with MSU, Michigan, OSU, Iowa, Nebraska, and NW. Record in a bubble doesn't mean much.

We can never answer the always present 'which conference is best' BS that so many blow hard up here, but we sure can fairly easily rank teams within each conference because there is enough data. They barely lost in the CCG by 3 and that's their only blemish on the entire season. Ranking a team that has one single loss by 3 no higher than 5th in a conference is a complete and utter joke, but again it clearly is something you need to make yourself feel better.

Stanford undressing them doesn't mean anything about Pac v B1G other than they are clearly the better of the two teams on the field today.

 

[TheRobotDevil]

For sure. If I was building an NFL team, I'd take from LSU, Alabama, and the ACC. I might hop over the PAC 12 to pick up a QB though.

Ive always wanted to see what would happen if you bred PAC offenses and SEC defenses

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

Ive always wanted to see what would happen if you bred PAC offenses and SEC defenses

Michigan had some pretty significant skill players in the NFL.

 

[4down20]

These are college kids playing at the college level. Each team can be vastly different week to week, more or less trying to gauge whole conferences based on small numbers of games between them.

There is no conference better than others BS. At most you can say which one did better at a given time, but that doesn't make them overall better than the others.

We do not get to see enough games between any two conferences to judge as a whole and never have.

Stanford is obviously playing out of their minds today, but they have had flat games as well. I'm sure Iowa isn't always this bad. It's just not their day. But the outcome of this one game doesn't tell you a fucking thing about whole conferences.

Stanford played a tough schedule.

Iowa did not.

Stanford is ranked #8 in the S&P.

Iowa is #25, they moved up 1 spot after the Michigan St game. But I'm guessing they are going to drop in the final power rankings.

This is why SoS matters and why it's bullshit that a team like Iowa gets ranked so high while playing such a miserable schedule.

 

[TDs3nOut]

Best conference fodder is bullshit. It's all about how YOUR team does.

I agree that the primary concern of a fan is how his team does, but with so many teams and so many conferences it's difficult to evaluate just how one's team rates; hence, the value of rating the various conferences.

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

CLEMSON

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

I agree that the primary concern of a fan is how his team does, but with so many teams and so many conferences it's difficult to evaluate just how one's team rates; hence, the value of rating the various conferences.

Lots of fuckery out there. One team gets bombed in the conference and the other looks like world beaters.. Hard to determine anything. If Bama gets bombed by Clemson, will that mean the ACC is the best?

 

[WizardHawk]

Stanford played a tough schedule.

Iowa did not.

Stanford is ranked #8 in the S&P.

Iowa is #25, they moved up 1 spot after the Michigan St game. But I'm guessing they are going to drop in the final power rankings.

This is why SoS matters and why it's bullshit that a team like Iowa gets ranked so high while playing such a miserable schedule.

Clearly the new and improved playoff committee didn't improve on that. As long as teams with weak records are allowed to profit there is zero chance we will see the end of top teams playing cupcakes in OOC.

 

[Smart]

We can never answer the always present 'which conference is best' BS that so many blow hard up here, but we sure can fairly easily rank teams within each conference because there is enough data. They barely lost in the CCG by 3 and that's their only blemish on the entire season. Ranking a team that has one single loss by 3 no higher than 5th in a conference is a complete and utter joke, but again it clearly is something you need to make yourself feel better.

Stanford undressing them doesn't mean anything about Pac v B1G other than they are clearly the better of the two teams on the field today.

I'd love to hear this data which suggests that Iowa is better than Ohio State or Michigan. Neither played Iowa. Neither lost to a team that Iowa beat. And as for Wisconsin, your entire argument rests on an incredibly flukish play which Iowa had nothing to do with in a game where Iowa was substantially outgained and only managed 10 points despite getting four turnovers.

 

[B_dub]

Ive always wanted to see what would happen if you bred PAC offenses and SEC defenses

So who's the bitch in that relationship?

 

[umichgradfan]

The B1G has 6 teams with at least 10 wins this season. How many teams in your conference have at least 10 wins?

 

[KansasSooner]

This is why SoS matters and why it's bullshit that a team like Iowa gets ranked so high while playing such a miserable schedule.

Tell it to teams who schedule FCS teams year in and year out. They should automatically be disqualified from post season play...

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

The B1G has 6 teams with at least 10 wins this season. How many teams in your conference have at least 10 wins?

Don't start bro. I am not defending NW, MSU and Iowa. They were trash.

 

[TDs3nOut]

Well yeah. The SEC was king for a long time last decade. That's why their numbers are padded.

Dude, I live in wretched SEC country and I certainly have no love for SEC football. There is no way around denying, however, that the SEC has produced the most NFL players over the past 20 years, including last year.

SEC leads all conferences with 54 players taken in 2015 draft

 

[WizardHawk]

I'd love to hear this data which suggests that Iowa is better than Ohio State or Michigan. Neither played Iowa. Neither lost to a team that Iowa beat. And as for Wisconsin, your entire argument rests on an incredibly flukish play which Iowa had nothing to do with in a game where Iowa was substantially outgained and only managed 10 points despite getting four turnovers.

My argument? I'm saying Stanford is playing a 12-1 team that lost by 3 to the eventual conference champion. That's not debatable. Those are facts. And they are completely dominating them. This is all we know. Your complete speculation on where Iowa ranks against teams they haven't played is clearly something you need to make yourself feel better about your conference and it's funny. I'll stick to just dealing in facts. You can have all the fantasy you need. Sleep well bro.

 

[4down20]

Tell it to teams who schedule FCS teams year in and year out. They should automatically be disqualified from post season play...

Alabama scheduled a FCS team and still had a much better schedule than Oklahoma.

The FCS team was better than a few of the teams you played.

 

[Lions=TeHsUcKs]

Dude, I live in wretched SEC country and I certainly have no love for SEC football. There is no way around denying, however, that the SEC has produced the most NFL players over the past 20 years, including last year.

SEC leads all conferences with 54 players taken in 2015 draft

Actually the Big 10 lead for a bit in the early 2000s and 90s because of OSU and Michigan alone.