MtTacWa
Old Jackass...
Note: This is a blogger view. From the look of this article, this guy has done some extensive homework.
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This is probably the conference prediction entry that I will receive the most criticism for. The Pac 10 has seemingly become a word of mouth conference. We now have a clearly defined top and bottom half according to fans on the national level. I think it is understandable for the SEC to have a defined top half and bottom half, though we have seen some light movement over the last few years, like Kentucky moving up some, but lets be clear there, it isn't as if Kentucky has knocked Tennesseee or Auburn out of the top half. They've just flirted with the top half some. Big 10 is the same way. The Big 12 may be even more so. The Pac though, we're weird. There has been very little continuity of dominance, except for USC in the last decade. I still think this is the most perfect sentence to describe Pac football.
Every Pac-10 team has won or shared the conference championship since 1993. That shows why the Pac shouldn't have a clearly defined top and bottom half. That is 10 teams in 16 years. But as mentioned above, the top half has become Oregon State, Oregon, USC, Cal, UCLA/ASU. I was hoping that the preseason magazines would pick up on it, but they didn't. Well, Phil Steele kind of, sort of did and he is the most accurate of the media preseason magazines, but he seems to be afraid to go out on a limb. I'm not, if I look at the Pac-10 teams this year, I don't see the trend that has filled the conference over the last few years.
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This is probably the conference prediction entry that I will receive the most criticism for. The Pac 10 has seemingly become a word of mouth conference. We now have a clearly defined top and bottom half according to fans on the national level. I think it is understandable for the SEC to have a defined top half and bottom half, though we have seen some light movement over the last few years, like Kentucky moving up some, but lets be clear there, it isn't as if Kentucky has knocked Tennesseee or Auburn out of the top half. They've just flirted with the top half some. Big 10 is the same way. The Big 12 may be even more so. The Pac though, we're weird. There has been very little continuity of dominance, except for USC in the last decade. I still think this is the most perfect sentence to describe Pac football.
Every Pac-10 team has won or shared the conference championship since 1993. That shows why the Pac shouldn't have a clearly defined top and bottom half. That is 10 teams in 16 years. But as mentioned above, the top half has become Oregon State, Oregon, USC, Cal, UCLA/ASU. I was hoping that the preseason magazines would pick up on it, but they didn't. Well, Phil Steele kind of, sort of did and he is the most accurate of the media preseason magazines, but he seems to be afraid to go out on a limb. I'm not, if I look at the Pac-10 teams this year, I don't see the trend that has filled the conference over the last few years.
