So how's your conference doing? Week 2 edition

by Truzenzuzex on Sep 9, 2008 9:38 AM EDT in Football Comment 0 comments

Last week, we visually analyzed how the conferences were doing against each other, and it's back for week 2 of the college football season. This time, in response to a request, I have included a sub-breakdown of BCS conference teams. Note that their numbers are also included in the FBS breakout.

		FBS (including BCS)				BCS (Conferences)				Other
Conference	Last Rank	W	L	%	TTL FBS	W	L	%	TTL BCS	W	L	%	TTL Other	TTL Games	Remarks
Big 12	T2	15	2	.882	17	3	1	.750	4	7	0	1.000	7	24	Very strong
Big Ten	5	12	3	.800	15	3	2	.600	5	6	0	1.000	6	21	Strong
SEC	T2	12	3	.800	15	4	2	.667	6	5	0	1.000	5	20	Strong
Pac-10	1	6	3	.667	9	3	2	.600	5	2	0	1.000	2	11	Weakening
Mountain West	4	4	3	.571	7	2	2	.500	4	4	1	0.800	4	11	Pretty good.
Conference USA	6	4	9	.308	13	2	7	.222	9	4	0	1.000	4	17
ACC	8	3	7	.300	10	2	5	.286	7	10	0	1.000	10	20	Tiny improvement
Big East	12	3	7	.300	10	0	3	.000	3	5	0	1.000	5	15	Moving up
Sun Belt	10	3	8	.273	11	2	6	.250	8	1	0	1.000	1	12
Independents (FBS)	11	1	3	.250	4	0	1	.000	1	2	1	0.667	3	7
Mid-American	9	5	15	.250	20	2	14	.125	16	3	0	1.000	3	23
WAC	7	2	7	.222	9	2	6	.250	8	5	0	1.000	5	14

Note: Games don't always add up because some teams played conference foes.

In general, the Big 12, Big Televen, Pac-10 and SEC are doing pretty well against all comers. The Pac-10 has fallen off the pace just a bit from last week, but it is still looking good.

At the lower end of the spectrum, the Big East and ACC have improved, the ACC only marginally but the Big East made a big jump from last to 8th, although its utter futility against BCS conference schools is quite telling. The Mountain West is performing well so far, .500 against BCS conference schools and is showing up the ACC and Big East pretty badly at this early juncture.

Right now, the MAC seems to be the preferred conference of cannon fodder for all the BCS confernces, as you can see by the fact that they almost double up their nearest competitor, Conference USA, in terms of BCS games played. You have to love the fact that the MAC takes on this many BCS teams, even though their success has been less than stellar so far.

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