The debate has reached the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated -- Pac-10 or SEC: Which is stronger? Colleague Austin Murphy witnessed USC's destruction of Nebraska last weekend, but still feels the Southeastern Conference is deeper than its western counterpart. The gap has narrowed, but Kentucky's win over No. 9 Louisville went a long way toward showing the SEC's depth. Link To Original Article
Re: CNNSI.com Bill Trocchi: Pac-10 overtakes SEC in Conference Rankings (Sports Illus No it doesn't seem fair, no more fair than the Pac-10 champion gets evaluated on the same merit as an SEC champion that has to win conference championship game. Trocchi's method drops two probable SEC bowl teams from his little equation and puts the Pac's 6th best against our 8th best, and so on down the line. Ask Vegas to put odds on Arkansas vs Washington St., Kentucky vs UCLA, Tennessee vs Oregon St, Vanderbilt vs Arizona, and Miss St vs Stanford. My bet is you don't get 5-4-1 Pac 10 anymore.
Re: CNNSI.com Bill Trocchi: Pac-10 overtakes SEC in Conference Rankings (Sports Illus Very good points mctiger....
Re: CNNSI.com Bill Trocchi: Pac-10 overtakes SEC in Conference Rankings (Sports Illus The way he should have done it, since he used the SI power rankings, would be to match each PAC team to its most closely ranked SEC counterpart. Then he would've gotten: 1. USC vs 2. LSU, 4. Florida vs 7. Cal, 13. Oregon vs 14. Bama....oops, the theory just ran out of gas, SEC's got 15. South Carolina, 16. Arkansas, and 20. Kentucky, before you hit 28. Washington and 29. Arizona St., who would match with 32. Tennessee. Who needs Vegas? SI's own power ratings say all you need to know.
