What are the top games buster for the PAC-10 2009 conference?”
When it comes to championships, no sport depends on opinion more than college football. A playoff makes as much sense as 1 plus 1 equals 2, yet college football stubbornly tethers itself to the bowl season, and probably will for years and decades to come. Deciding the champion largely comes down to two teams playing one big game based on the opinions of coaches, selected “experts” and computers. To a lesser extent, a firestorm of opinion rages in regards to the country’s best conference of 2009: Pac-10 or SEC. Granted, most of the fuel for the debate comes from the West, because the SEC isn’t even aware another conference dares to play at its level. They’re the SEC, and the rest of us should just be happy to play their game. There is significant evidence out there suggesting that, at a minimum, the Pac-10 is the SEC’s equal in 2009. There are national rankings, five from the Pac-10 in the Top 25 to just three from the SEC. There was this excellent analysis by ESPN.com’s Ted Miller, deb
A playoff makes as much sense as 1 plus 1 equals 2, yet college football stubbornly tethers itself to the bowl season, and probably will for years and decades to come. Deciding the champion largely comes down to two teams playing one big game based on the opinions of coaches, selected “experts” and computers. To a lesser extent, a firestorm of opinion rages in regards to the country’s best conference of 2009: Pac-10 or SEC. Granted, most of the fuel for the debate comes from the West, because the SEC isn’t even aware another conference dares to play at its level. They’re the SEC, and the rest of us should just be happy to play their game. There is significant evidence out there suggesting that, at a minimum, the Pac-10 is the SEC’s equal in 2009. There are national rankings, five from the Pac-10 in the Top 25 to just three from the SEC. There was this excellent analysis by ESPN.com’s Ted Miller, debunking the myth about Pac-10 vs. SEC defense.