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Man, you hit the nail on the head. If you don't mind, I will add a little to what it takes to be #1.

Depth. I am currently in a Throwdown (SEC vs. Pac-10). I am for the SEC. The way and one of my arguements was the PAC-10 plays football without defense. It's always a shootout. I brought to everone's attention that LSU has outscored their 3 opponents 137-7. While USC played 3 opponents and only outscored them 87-41. Well he came back at me with when SC was up 41-10 they started rotating in 2nd and 3rd string. Ok.....and????? Where's the depth from the "Best D" in the nation? (USC) You don't think for one min. that LSU keeps their starter in the whole game do you? They put the 2nd and 3rd sting D in starting in the 3rd quarter. And only gave up 7 questionable points. 10 returning starter, ok...... And that makes them the "Best D" in the nation??? The best team in the nation doesn't give up 20.5 points a game. And on offense, LSU won last week against MTS 44-0 with their starting QB Matt Flynn and #1 WR Early Doucet.

I am tired of hearing the SEC and Big-12 teams have weak schedules. And this non-scence is always coming from the West Coast Media. If you would coach a top notch program that played a Conference Championship game at the end of the season, would you want to schedule a BCS team into your already tough schedule? For those fortunate ones out there don't doesn't have a championship game in their conference, that is an extra game on your schedule. Most of the time, it's a game against a team who you've already played.

i agree?

Theres actually an east coast bias. Reporters are more likely to favor schools on the east coast, so the Pac 10 actually doesn't get the respect they should most of the time.

Strength of schedule is a big factor, but we'll see if USC, LSU/UF, and Oklahoma/Texas can make it through their schedules undefeated before we start complaining that someone was left out. If LSU is #2, then that's as good as #1 anyways b/c of the way the BCS works. Right now, it's USC's and LSU's title game to lose to someone else.

Does USC have an easier road? I'm inclined to say yes. Undefeated Florida would get into the title game before undefeated Cal. Whether undefeated UF would get in before Oklahoma or Texas is another matter to be determined.

USC all the way!!!

As they have said at Stanford for over 50 yeras - Fight On, for USC; Fight On, Fight On for salary.

Boy, you guys don't watch much television do you. Try recording all the games for about three weeks and one thing you will find is the PAC-10 gets absolutely hammered over and over and over again. The SEC is hyped as the best in the country. Just from a numbers standpoint, I would hope the SEC would be a little better with 12 teams.

As far as a conference championship game, why do we need it when every team plays each other. Every team doesn't play each other in the other conferences, plus look at your OOC games. The PAC is playing everyone while the Big-12 and SEC play the Sun-Belt and Division I-AA.

Nonetheless, most of this happens because we cant get the match-ups head to head. I've got a great playoff proposal but no one reads my blog.

If you read my former comment, BCSBusters, you would've seen that I said that there was an east coast bias.

I hate when Pac 10 fans insist that the SEC plays bad OoC games. NO THEY DON'T! What do you call Cal/Tennessee, LSU/VT, Auburn/USF, Kentucky/Louisville, Georgia/OK St., UF/FSU, UGA/GT, Vandy/Michigan, Mississippi St./WVU, and Arkansas/USC? These are not games of tidly-winks here. Granted, the Pac 10 does have good OoC games, but so does the SEC.

USc, r u singing nelly

The biggest thing with the Pac-10 is that is plays a very quick game most of the time. One of Oregon's biggest strengths is the ability to score very quickly and often. If you look at the box score for the Fresno game, you'll see that Fresno State held the ball several more minutes than the Ducks, yet they still lost by 31 points. The Pac-10 is an offensive conference, save maybe UCLA, we like to run up the score out here, and it works. Also, I would never want the Pac-10 to expand, or include a conference championship, we play every team once, the only conference to do so, so every team gets a shot at every other team. No one can escape say USC and have a perfect season.

sure thing buddy, playing each team once is easy, in the big12, acc, sec and others that do have a conference championship have to play the best twice to prove they are champions, any team can beat another on the first go, running up the score and letting the other team score on you is not real football, they call it blitz

come on yall play that many games against conf. foes now you get less credit. HA HA

so no one can escape usc,!!!! u mean soooo usc can escape the league right???

LSU will play yet another top 15 team this weekend, by sesons end they will play more top rated teams than other schools, is that not enough to be #1???