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Post Bowl Season Analysis

03:59 PM ET 01.07

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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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Bowl Matchup Factor for this year...or how the Big East pads

05:17 PM ET 12.14

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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.
and since this group…

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