I offer another perspective on the PAC 10. I have had a running debate last year and this year with my buddy who has a son starting for a PAC 10 team that schedules BYU in what turns out to be their easiest non-conference game when they do it.
This year, for example, UW played BYU who is 6-5, Syracuse who had 7 wins last time I looked, and Nebraska. Most of the PAC 10 plays decent OOC opponents on an equal home and away basis. In other words they are fair and try to schedule games that are at least a little bit interesting.
In the 0-12 season,the BYU game bs a veteran BYU team was the closest UW came to winning.
Contrast that with the SEC. In the SEC, every single team but Vandy, which explains why Vandy looks bad, has 7 or 8 home games and all but about three SEC schools have 3 OOC games Vs FCS teams or equally slam Dunkish opponents. One took the huge gamble of playing Colorsdo OZoC and, of course, lost.
So in the SEC, you start with 3 wins OOC and then if you can win 3 in conference - bang - you are bowl eligible. And those 6 conference losses don't look too bad because they are VS other SEC teams that started conference play 3-0.
Big 12 and 10 are similar, but with a few more exceptions. But TTech plays Weber State. BYU, and PAC 10 teams should have 1 and dones with Weber State, SUU, Montana State, and whatever other tiny schools that will sell their souls to the devil are available.
The SEC knows how the game is played and the PAC 10 does not. The average PAC 10 team would have 2 more wins this year if they followed SEC scheduling protocol and suddenly WSU would look better than Vandy, and every team but WSU would be bowl eligible. Not 1 bit better - but suddenly the PAC 10 would rival the SEC as a powerhouse conference.
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