{"id":764,"date":"2007-11-26T14:37:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/conference-strength-report-5\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T17:41:39","slug":"conference-strength-report-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/conference-strength-report-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Strength Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STOP &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/09\/conference-strength-report-7\/\">This data has been updated for the entire season in this entry<\/a>. Enjoy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFor prior CSRs, check the links at the bottom of this entry. I&#8217;ll do one final update of the CSR before the bowls commence &#8211; mostly there are rivalry and conference championship games left at this point, with only Washington-Hawaii as an OOC game that matters. Here are the results as of games completed Saturday, November 24, 2007:<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/nov24-conferencestrength.jpg\" title=\"Chart showing relative college football BCS conference strength from on field performance data as of Nov 24, 2007.\" alt=\"Chart showing relative college football BCS conference strength from on field performance data as of Nov 24, 2007.\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nComments on each conference follow, in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>ACC<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? 22 games against BCS-level competition. Chink in the armor? Lowest overall OOC win percentage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big East<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? Winning record against the SEC. Chink in the armor? Sub-.500 record against BCS-level competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big 10<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? Best win rate against BCS-level competition. Chink in the armor? Good conferences don&#8217;t lose to I-AA teams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big 12<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? Overall OOC win rate. Chink in the armor? Worst OOC record against BCS-level competition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pac 10<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? Only 2 games against I-AA teams. Chink in the armor? Losing record against Notre Dame, 1-2 on the season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEC<\/strong> &#8211; Strongest part of the resume? 32-1 OOC record against the little guys. Chink in the armor? Break-even record against BCS-level competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on performance to date, on the field, the conference ranking should be:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Pac 10<\/strong> &#8211; The gap between the top 3 conferences isn&#8217;t that large, I could make an argument for any of them to be at the top. The Pac 10 gets the nod on two positives, BCS-competition win rate and not scheduling as many I-AA teams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big 10<\/strong> &#8211; No, you can&#8217;t be serious putting the Big 10 #2 you Ohio State homer. On balance, the Big 10 has the strongest BCS-level competition win rate and comparable records against the little guys as the SEC, thus they get the nod at #2.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SEC<\/strong> &#8211; This conference is great against the sisters of the weak, but when playing teams with equivalent facilities and financial power, the record speaks for itself, 7-7. If the SEC had scheduled fewer I-AA patsies or had a winning record against BCS-level competition, it would be #2 or perhaps even #1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big 12<\/strong> &#8211; This conference is solid, but not spectacular. The BCS-level competition win rate sub .500 keeps it in the lower half of the rankings, for now.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ACC<\/strong> &#8211; Now for the whining, while the ACC has a lower OOC overall win rate and no patsy win rate than the Big East, it did play the largest number of games against BCS-level competition and at least managed a .500 record.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big East<\/strong> &#8211; Yes, I know the ACC has a worse overall OOC win rate; win big in the bowls and move up if it bothers you that much.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Notre Dame<\/strong> &#8211; Charlie Weis says &#8220;for the first time in 15 years, we&#8217;ve won our last 2 games.&#8221; Whatever gets you through the night Charlie&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stumbleupon.com\/submit?url=https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/26\/conference-strength-report-5\/&#038;title=Conference_Strength_Report\">If you liked this content, why not give it a thumbs up?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Come back next week for a pre-bowl update of the Conference Strength Report. Prior reports are available below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes, I skipped November 17th. So shoot me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/conference-strength-report-4\/\">CSR: Through November 10, 2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/06\/conference-strength-report-3\/\">CSR: Through November 3, 2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/30\/conference-strength-report-2\/\">CSR: Through October 28, 2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/24\/conference-strength-report\/\">CSR: Through October 21, 2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/conference-strength\/\">CSR: Through October 13, 2007<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/27\/which-conference-is-worst\/\">Original Conference Strength Report: Through September 27, 2007 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STOP &#8211; This data has been updated for the entire season in this entry. Enjoy. For prior CSRs, check the links at the bottom of this entry. I&#8217;ll do one final update of the CSR before the bowls commence &#8211; mostly there are rivalry and conference championship games left at this point, with only Washington-Hawaii [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,22],"tags":[46,69,70,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}