Now that all the games have been played...and there have been many surprises...which conference do you now think is the best.
1. SEC
2. Pac-12
3. Big-10
4. Big -12
5. ACC
SEC is still the best in my mind, despite Ole Miss, and Mississippi St. proving that they were not an elite (top 10) team. The conference is still the strongest from top to bottom...Alabama is the lone elite team, and then there are a bunch of "good to very good teams"....more so than any of other conference.
Pac-12 like the SEC only has one elite team in Oregon. And then there are a bunch of very good to good teams. I just wish the Pac-12 would have stronger competition in its Bowl arrangements, because all of their Bowl tie-ins put a higher seeded team from the Pac-12 to compete against a lower seeded team for a different conference. Basically, the Pac-12 was favored in just about every bowl game they played. So, winning most of their games does not make any statement about the strength of the conference.
Big-10 - Can't believe the Big-10 is now my #3 conference after being #5 as the Bowl season started. But Ohio St.'s dominant performances vs. Alabama and Oregon were just impressive. Throw-in Michigan St. and Wisconsin dramatic bowl victories and you had to think the Big-10 really rose to the occasion. But the Maryland's and Illinois' and Minnesota's hurt the conference strength as just being a notch below the Pac-12.
Big12 - now that the Bowl season is over...I still wonder if TCU is the best team in the country. We'll never know. But those guys are elite. I'd put the top 3 team (TCU, Baylor and K-State) up against the top 3 team in every other conference and I think the Big12 wins 2 of 3...Perhaps only the Big 10 has a stronger top 3. But the rest of the Big12 conference is very pedestrian.
ACC - Ga Tech and Clemson's victory over Oklahoma was impressive. But Oregon's dismantling of FSU hurt the perception of the overall strength of the conference..
This post was edited on 1/13 3:06 PM by wilson1802
1. SEC
2. Pac-12
3. Big-10
4. Big -12
5. ACC
SEC is still the best in my mind, despite Ole Miss, and Mississippi St. proving that they were not an elite (top 10) team. The conference is still the strongest from top to bottom...Alabama is the lone elite team, and then there are a bunch of "good to very good teams"....more so than any of other conference.
Pac-12 like the SEC only has one elite team in Oregon. And then there are a bunch of very good to good teams. I just wish the Pac-12 would have stronger competition in its Bowl arrangements, because all of their Bowl tie-ins put a higher seeded team from the Pac-12 to compete against a lower seeded team for a different conference. Basically, the Pac-12 was favored in just about every bowl game they played. So, winning most of their games does not make any statement about the strength of the conference.
Big-10 - Can't believe the Big-10 is now my #3 conference after being #5 as the Bowl season started. But Ohio St.'s dominant performances vs. Alabama and Oregon were just impressive. Throw-in Michigan St. and Wisconsin dramatic bowl victories and you had to think the Big-10 really rose to the occasion. But the Maryland's and Illinois' and Minnesota's hurt the conference strength as just being a notch below the Pac-12.
Big12 - now that the Bowl season is over...I still wonder if TCU is the best team in the country. We'll never know. But those guys are elite. I'd put the top 3 team (TCU, Baylor and K-State) up against the top 3 team in every other conference and I think the Big12 wins 2 of 3...Perhaps only the Big 10 has a stronger top 3. But the rest of the Big12 conference is very pedestrian.
ACC - Ga Tech and Clemson's victory over Oklahoma was impressive. But Oregon's dismantling of FSU hurt the perception of the overall strength of the conference..
This post was edited on 1/13 3:06 PM by wilson1802
