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Since conference supremacy is such a hot topic right now, I figure that I'd add some fuel to the fire.  Here's some straight up W-L records from each NCAA football BCS conference from the regular season and bowls. I only included the BCS conferences, so sorry MWC, MAC, WAC, Sun Belt, Conf. USA, and Independents. I also included the rankings as they appeared right after the regular season b/c the rankings that are before the bowls are more meaningful to me (mainly b/c the team that loses the BCS championship is rarely ranked #2 after the bowls, and I think they should be ranked #2 after playing in the championship game). Enjoy the records.

Regular Season:
ACC
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 1
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 4
Bowl teams: 8
Non-conference record: 33-15
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 11-11
Quality non-conference wins (4): Florida State over Alabama, Miami over Texas A&M, Virginia over UConn, Florida State over Colorado
Notable non-conference losses (4): UCF over N.C. State, Wyoming over Virginia, East Carolina over North Carolina, Navy over Duke

Big 12
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 3
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 4
Bowl teams: 8
Non-conference record: 36-12
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 5-6
Quality non-conference wins (3): Missouri over Illinois, Iowa State over Iowa, Nebraska over Wake Forest
Notable non-conference losses (6): Fresno State over Kansas St., Northern Iowa over Iowa State, Toledo over Iowa State, Kent State over Iowa State, Troy over Oklahoma St., TCU over Baylor

Big East
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 1
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 4
Bowl teams: 5
Non-conference record: 29-11
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 7-8
Quality non-conference wins (3): West Virginia over Miss. State, Cincinnati over Oregon St., South Florida over Auburn
Notable non-conference losses (3): Utah over Louisville, Navy over Pittsburgh, Miami (Ohio) over Syracuse

Big 10
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 1
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 3
Bowl teams: 8
Non-conference record: 35-9
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 9-4
Quality non-conference wins: none
Notable non-conference losses (5): Appalachian State over Michigan, Western Michigan over Iowa, North Dakota State over Minnesota, Florida Atlantic over Minnesota, Bowling Green over Minnesota

Pac 10
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 1
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 2
Bowl teams: 6
Non-conference record: 21-10
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 7-6
Quality non-conference wins (3): California over Tennessee, Oregon over Michigan, Arizona State over Colorado
Notable non-conference losses (4): Utah over UCLA, New Mexico over Arizona, TCU over Stanford, Hawaii over Washington

SEC
Number of teams in final BCS Top 10: 2
Number of teams in final BCS Top 25: 5
Bowl teams: 9
Non-conference record: 40-8
Non-conference record vs. BCS foes: 7-7
Quality non-conference wins (4): Georgia over Oklahoma St., LSU over Virginia Tech, Georgia over Georgia Tech, Florida over Florida State
Notable non-conference losses (1): Louisiana-Monroe over Alabama

Here's some more stats that are interesting about non-conference non-BCS opponents.

Percentage of non-conference games versus BCS opponents
Conference Percentage:
ACC 44
Pac-10 42
Big East 38
Big Ten 30
SEC 29
Big 12 23
**Eight BCS teams did not schedule a non-conference BCS opponent: Arizona, Arkansas, Baylor, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas and Texas Tech.

I'll cite Bill Trocchi for the research for this information. Here's a link to the article: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/bill_trocchi/12/12/conference.rankings/index.html



Bowl Season


Atlantic Coast (8 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 2-6
vs. Big 12: 0-2
vs. Big East: 1-0
vs. Big 10: 1-0
vs. Pac 10: 0-1
vs. SEC: 0-2
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 2-5

Big Twelve (8 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 5-3
vs. ACC: 2-0
vs. Big East: 0-1
vs. Big 10: 1-1
vs. Pac 10: 1-0
vs. SEC: 1-1
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 5-3

Big East (5 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 3-2
vs. ACC: 0-1
vs. Big 12: 1-0
vs. Big 10: did not play
vs. Pac 10: 0-1
vs. SEC: did not play
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 1-2

Big Ten (8 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 3-5
vs. ACC: 0-1
vs. Big 12: 1-1
vs. Big East: did not play
vs. Pac 10: 0-1
vs. SEC: 1-2
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 2-5

Pacific Ten (6 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 4-2
vs. ACC: 1-0
vs. Big 12: 0-1
vs. Big East: 1-0
vs. Big 10: 1-0
vs. SEC: did not play
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 3-1

Southeastern (9 bowl teams)
Overall bowl record: 7-2
vs. ACC: 2-0
vs. Big 12: 1-1
vs. Big East: did not play
vs. Big 10: 2-1
vs. Pac 10: did not play
Bowl record from BCS opponents: 5-2


There it is folks: pure records from the 2007 season. That W is really the only stat that matters anyways. I'm already looking forward to 2008.