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    • 12/02/2017 at 6:54 PM #50585
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      SkinyUte
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      I’ve heard lots of folks talk about how “weak” the P12 was this year in relation to other conferences.  Made me go back and check the number of teams with winning records in each conference.

      ACC:  8 teams at or over .500, 4 teams under .500

      B10:  6 teams at or over .500, 6 teams under .500

      B12:  8 teams at or over .500, 2 teams under .500

      P12:  9 teams at or over .500, 3 teams under .500

      SEC:  8 teams at or over .500, 4 teams under .500

       

      Looks to me like the P12 has the most teams that are at least “average” and likely has more parity across the conference as a whole than any other.  There was really only one objectively bad team in the conference (OSU), with a whole bunch of teams that could take down any other team on any given Saturday. 

      When we were in the MWC, the criticism was that it was easy to get up for 1-2 games a year when you get to play a bunch of cupcakes.  Which is not an entirely invalid criticism, to be honest.  Seems to me like each of the other conference gets at least one or two in conference “cupcake” games, whereas we really don’t (definitely didn’t this year).

      Just an observation.

    • 12/02/2017 at 7:05 PM #50586
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      KiYi-Ute
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      Every other conference needs to play 9 conference games, or the PAC needs to change and only schedule 8 and a mid-late season cupcake. We have enough working against us with the East coast bias that all pundits really care about is W-L, and you can’t afford to drop more than one game a year if you want to contend. 

      • 12/02/2017 at 7:36 PM #50599
        SalUteopia
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        Serious question: why can’t the PAC play only 8 conference games?

        • 12/02/2017 at 7:48 PM #50602
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          THEeyepatch
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          Sal:

          Because the Pac-12 continually want to shoot itself in the foot with a 9 game conference schedule and a weak TV network. 
        • 12/02/2017 at 8:06 PM #50607
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          noneyadb
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          To keep northern and southern California schools happy. Stanford had to play USC every year…

        • 12/02/2017 at 8:11 PM #50609
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          SalUteopia
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          This needs to be fixed. Everyone deserves to play a Mercer or THE Citadel.

          • 12/02/2017 at 8:21 PM #50610
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            SkinyUte
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            i tend to agree. Those late season “bye” weeks in the SEC must be a godsend.

    • 12/03/2017 at 7:20 AM #50644
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      X723
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      Look at SOS
      Al. 56
      Wash. 58
      USC 16
      Utes 44

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