Student Body Right » Western Carolina http://www.studentbodyright.com Keeping fantasy football simple. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:17:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 SEC apologist touts non-conference record http://www.studentbodyright.com/2007/09/sec-apologist-touts-non-conference-record.html http://www.studentbodyright.com/2007/09/sec-apologist-touts-non-conference-record.html#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:44:48 +0000 gpen http://www.studentbodyright.com/2007/09/sec-apologist-touts-non-conference-record.html The Pac-10 vs. SEC feud rages unchecked over at Bleacher Reportbeta, where Leon Wynn crunches a few numbers and comes to the conclusion that the SEC is truly THE powerhouse in college football. One of the stats he pulls out is the SEC’s non-conference record:

Since 2000, the SEC has the nation’s best nonconference record (including bowl games): 247-95, for a .722 winning percentage.

One thought here: maybe the SEC has such a good nonconference record because they schedule such “juggernauts” as Western Carolina, Western Kentucky, and Troy? In fact, the article Leon is responding to makes just this point:

Since 1990, the SEC records against rival conferences is not as impressive as the SEC diehards would lend you to believe: Big-12 (20-16), PAC-10 (10-9), Big East (15-20), Big-10 (30-23), ACC (65-50) and the old Southwest Conference (20-19). So against the BCS Conference members since 1990, the SEC has an overall mark of 160 – 127. While this is good, it isn’t exactly dominant. But what the SEC teams hang their hat on is their record against the non-BCS regime: BWest (30-0), Sun (43-3), MAC (33-5), WAC (32-6), CUSA (57-20) and MWest (9-4) for an overall mark of 204-38.

We rest our case.

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