In my last little brain dump I opined on the idea that a great deal of how conferences perform during the bowl season can be attributed to the matchups. I also stated and supported my opinion that the Big East is a joke and has taken the idea of scheduling for success to a new level. Well, I'm proud to say.....the bowl season has more than proven my point, as I will explain below.
First, let me state that I don't believe that bowls are an indicator of overall conference strength. Because of their nature, the time off, the coaching changes, etc they are not good at…
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A couple years ago, I was watching ESPN fawn all over the BigEast for winning all but one of it's bowl games and awarding them their Bowl Championship trophy. I thought this was a little odd since anyone who didn't have a routing interest in a BigEast team....and even most of them would tell you the BigEast was the worst conference of the 6 BCS conferences. Then I started looking at matchups and realized that if a conference wants to look good during the bowl season, a little creative scheduling goes a long way. Thus was born my Bowl Matchup Factor.
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What's up College fans!! Welcome to the ugly truth NCAA style! This is my first blog in this great group and I'm going to start off with a bang!! As usual I keep awesome assistants and oh yeah I blog pretty good too!!! So lets get to it............. Since there aren't many attention gettting games this week I will focus on those that do get our attention.
#4 USC @ #10 Oregon - Well here we go again! SC is in a position silence the naysayers or be the blunt of the " I told you so's". Unfortunately for the Trojans, Oregon is not the same team that…
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