Top 25 vote shakeup....

Balls? Conference championship games are about money and nothing else. If a loss in one knocks a team out of a title shot, my reaction is ha, ha, ha. Go spend the dough on new carpeting for the coach's office.

 

Agree with Michael Gee on this, and I've debated this many a time with friends through the years. They've argued that the Big 10 and Pac-10 ought to have title games just like everyone else. But if they don't want to have one, fine, then that's their right. We all know the cash cow that conference title games are. Personally, I think the Big 10 and Pac-10 are smart not to have one.

 

and the pac 10, well, maybe they should have a second-place game

 

Just curious, Buck, when was the conference title game last season? [/JoePA]

 

Pac-10 already plays a complete round-robin. No need for a championship game, no need to give someone a mulligan and another attempt to beat a team it couldn't beat the first time.

 

I didn't think Pac-10 schools play a full round-robin. Is that new because of the 12-game schedule now?

 

JD:

Yep, first time this year.

Every team plays one road and one home game against the Washington, SoCals, Oregons, Bay Areas and Arizonas.

Rivalry game at home every other year, so every other year you get four home/five league games, or vice-versa

BTW to Hoops:

Pac-10 teams to win league championships in the past 10 years: WSU, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon, OSU, Washington, and USC. That's seven of 10, awfully good balance. Trojans current domination is a new thing, and it ends this year when Cal becomes 8th champion in 11 years.

 

Meanwhile, the SEC has had six different champions -- Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, LSU, Georgia and Auburn -- in the same 10 years. The only team with a shot at joining that group this year is Arkansas, which is the only unbeaten team in SEC play.

Thanks for the explanation, micro. How you been?

 

and they did a heck of a job against the sec

 

Further historical note on SEC champions in football: The same six have all the championships since 1976, when Georgia and Kentucky tied (pre-championship-game years). Before that, you have to go back to 1963 to find Ole Miss.

So, six SEC programs have won or shared 42 of the last 43 conference championships.

 

so the pac 10 is like the nfl -- mediocrity disguised as parity... gotcha

 

SEC West leader Arkansas, likewise, against USC.