12-18-2020, 10:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2020, 10:49 PM by CardinalSagehen.)
When last we saw conferences competing against each other on the field of play, the Pac-12 was 4-3 in the 2019 bowl season, including a Rose Bowl win. That compares to 4-6 for the Big Ten, 4-6 for the ACC, and a pathetic 1-5 for the Big 12.
The final Sagarin rankings by conference for 2019 showed the Pac 12 well above the ACC and neck-and-neck with the Big Ten.
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sa...onference/
I'm not saying the conference is great, and I certainly don't think it's well managed. But I think the story is partly an overweighting of 2018 (as opposed to 2019) and ought to be mostly about the lack of dominant, standout teams, as others have suggested.
The final Sagarin rankings by conference for 2019 showed the Pac 12 well above the ACC and neck-and-neck with the Big Ten.
https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sa...onference/
I'm not saying the conference is great, and I certainly don't think it's well managed. But I think the story is partly an overweighting of 2018 (as opposed to 2019) and ought to be mostly about the lack of dominant, standout teams, as others have suggested.