Your favorite and least favorite conferences

[zamboniracer]

My least favorite is the SEC, which has been obnoxious about its supposed superiority for 50 years. The fact that recently they have had the football national champion just makes them that much more obnoxious.

As a Kent State grad I have to say that the Mid-American Conference is my favorite. Students get a good education at a good price, and the basketball isn’t too shabby.

[notfrommensa]

@BobLibDem

The Big 10, of course, are the leaders and best. All (save Nebraska) are members of the AAU. All have a rich academic and athletic tradition. Now we’d do better in bowl games if we got to play them in our back yard the way that the SEC does.

The Pac 10 is my second favorite, due to the traditional Rose Bowl rivalry with the Big 10. It really is too bad this bowl got sullied with the likes of Texas and Boise State in recent years.

The SEC is my least favorite, of course. It’s not too hard to get into the title game every year when you have the pollsters in your back pocket. Not to mention officials who go out of their way to make sure the right team wins the tight conference games (was it Miss or Miss State that got royally shafted a couple years ago against Bama to keep the Tide in the title game?)

This. This is the reason why I can’t stand the Big 10 [sic].

Do better in bowl games if they were in your own back yard. LOL Yep, lets go play a game in Cleveland around xmas. About a bowl game in Chicago on New Years day.

Boise State? never played in the Rose Bowl. and someone better look at the original bowl matchups in the Rose Bowl. It didn’t start as an annual matchup between Pac-10 and Big 10. In fact the Pac-8 (later Pac-10, later Pac-12?) didn’t even become a conference until 1959.

Teams that have played in the Rose Bowl include Harvard, Brown, Ga Tech, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Navy, SMU, Tulane.

Pollsters in their back pocket? Cite please? LMAO

[Zeldar]

May I suggest that somebody – maybe the OP – build a poll or polls along the lines of these that I started last year, but using the conferences instead of teams.

College Football All-Time Team Rankings

College Football All-Time Team Rankings
03-21-2010

Your Favorite SEC Football Team

Your Favorite SEC Football Team
04-04-2010

Your Favorite All-Time Top 25 College Football Team

Your Favorite All-Time Top 25 College Football Team
04-05-2010

Your Most Hated of the Top 25 All-Time College Football Teams

Your Most Hated of the Top 25 All-Time College Football Teams
04-07-2010

Weight of numbers versus loudness of screams ought to play into the issue more convincingly, IMHO.

You could make it so the poll(s) is/are “public” so that the lovers and haters can be identified.

[Zeldar]

@Zeldar

May I suggest that somebody – maybe the OP – build a poll or polls along the lines of these that I started last year, but using the conferences instead of teams.

You could make it so the poll(s) is/are “public” so that the lovers and haters can be identified.

Done!

[zamboniracer]

@notfrommensa

This. This is the reason why I can’t stand the Big 10 [sic].

Do better in bowl games if they were in your own back yard. LOL Yep, lets go play a game in Cleveland around xmas. {How} About a bowl game in Chicago on New Years day. {?}

Of course it is an advantage for the southern-based teams to play bowl games in the South. To deny that fact is to deny reality. Now that we have these new fangled things called covered stadiums, in such places as Indianapolis, Detroit and (maybe eventually again assuming they get the roof fixed) Minneapolis, we could play some bowl games in the north and find out how much an advantage playing a bowl game close to home actually is.