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WSU1996kesley · Dec 4, 2013

Here's interesting article.

I wouldn't venture to guess which league is "best." After all, how can you when the top teams almost never play each other? (This season, Auburn beat Washington State and Oregon crushed Tennessee. It currently looks like there will be no SEC vs. Pac-12 bowl games.) But as to which conference was tougher this season, that's not even a question. The Pac-12 was as deep as we've ever seen it, and its teams bludgeoned each other right out of the national title race. That's primarily because it not only plays tougher nonconference schedules -- South Division champ Arizona State took on both Wisconsin and Notre Dame -- but its teams also play nine of 11 possible league opponents. SEC teams, by contrast, play eight of 13.

On Saturday, Stanford and Arizona State will add another game against a 10-win foe to what are already the nation's third and fourth toughest schedules, respectively, according to Sagarin. They will also both be playing their sixth game against one of his top-20 teams. That's insane.

Many have said the SEC will benefit the most from the forthcoming playoff system because it will regularly place multiple teams in the field. Instead, it may be the Pac-12 that thrives if its programs are finally rewarded for playing tougher schedules. It probably wouldn't help the conference this year, with every team having two losses. But if scheduling discrepancies remain the same, a one-loss Pac-12 contender that played the five best teams in its conference (as Stanford did against Oregon, Arizona State, UCLA, USC and Washington) will have a better case than a one-loss SEC team that played just one of the top four (as Missouri did in avoiding Auburn, Alabama and LSU).
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kp · Dec 4, 2013

Next year will be interesting. 8)

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