[Husker] SEC vs Big12

[Andrew Smith]

I'm glad that Nebraska has moved to the Big10++ and wouldn't have minded 
seeing Texas arrogance blamed for the demise of the Big12--.

But the Big 12, far from collapsing as many predicted, seems to be doing 
quite well.  In fact, I'm annoyed by the love affair with the SEC and 
claims that they are the strongest conference.

Sagarin has the Big 12 as clearly the best conference and has the following:
  Big 12 (10 teams) vs SEC (12 teams)
     2                    2  # in top-5
     2                    2  # in top-10
     6                    3  # in top-20
     7                    5  # in top-30
     8                    8  # in top-50
So even with fewer teams, the Big12 has more in the top-20 and top-30 
and as many in every other "top" category as the SEC.

Looking at the pre-bowl Sagarin rankings, the predicted performance of 
the each conference is
Big 12 6-2 vs SEC 5-4.  The Big 12 is already 5-1 while the SEC has just 
started (1-0 with 2 games being played today).

  Alabama     98.03 vs LSU          99.75
  Kansas St   82.69 vs Arkansas     85.33
  Stanford    93.87 vs Oklahoma St  96.36
  Michigan St 85.54 vs Georgia      83.09
  Nebraska    83.44 vs S Carolina   83.55
  Ohio St     77.61 vs Florida      76.52
  Virginia    68.32 vs Auburn       70.45
  Texas A&M   87.67 vs Northwestern 72.42
  Cincinnati  77.25 vs Vanderbilt   76.45
  Rutgers     75.45 vs Iowa St.     74.33
  Miss St     76.26 vs Wake Forest  68.15
  Iowa        75.32 vs Oklahoma     93.87
  Washington  73.93 vs Baylor       84.27
  California  79.46 vs Texas        83.86
  Missouri    85.47 vs N. Carolina  73.68

GO BIG RED!

Andy