Something that I saw on the Foxsports rumors board.

Pac-10 football conference better than SEC?

Since the 2000 season, the Pac-10 has the best record in games against the other Bowl Championship Series conferences (81-62, a .566 winning percentage). The Pac-10 also has a .500-or-better record during this period against each of the other five major conferences. The SEC ranks second among the six BCS conferences with a .528 mark, while the other four conferences are all under .500. Bringing up the rear is the Big Ten with a .475 winning percentage. The Pac-10 often gets little respect from fans and media. The conference's teams were a miserable 2-6 against the Mountain West last season, and this season Oregon lost decisively to Boise State of the Western Athletic Conference in a key early matchup. Critics say the conference would be nothing without USC. But even without the Trojans' 19-3 record against the other BCS conferences since 2000, the Pac-10 would still be above .500. -- Wall Street Journal

This would never be talked about on ESPN.   Especially with ESPN Conference homers like Jesse Palmer and David Pollack.

Remember the term West Coast Bias?   Well that may be the thing of the past.    The west coast may need to thank sporting networks like Fox Sports Pacific, VS, Comcast Sports Network, and ESPNU.    The reason for all of this thanks is that these networks are broadcasting re runs 24/7.   

A few years ago, if you wanted to know the Washington State Vs Idaho game, the major media outlets and pollsters on the East Coast and Midwest would look at the Box Score and judge the game based of that.    Many times the score doesn't show accurate flow of the game.

Now with many of these networks, we could see that LSU beat Washington, but since the game is broadcasted numerous times throughout the week, we can certainly see that Washington dominated all aspects of the game.   Two key missed tackles lost the game, but writers and pollsters can see what happened and make their judgements.

We get to see more teams like Hawai'i's offense beat the Cougars.    Cal's dimantling of Maryland, and San Diego State giving UCLA all they can handle.

If more of the pollsters get excited about watching more games, now they are easily accesible throughout the week and they can make true judgements.

The conference superiority is a myth that's being debunked each and every game this season. Since the inception of the BCS, teams are no longer looked at, but conferences are. Teams like Utah last year was overlooked because they are a Mountain West team, but showed the world that they can beat the Big boys by defeating Oregon State, Michigan and a Sugar bowl victory over highly ranked Alabama.

This season is no longer an exception. When I came back from the OSU/USC game in Columbus, I looked at my DVR at the Michigan State game and I overheard the biggest villians of conference superiority, ESPN. This season, they are out to dog the Big 10. I viewed the post game show and they were beating the Big 10 up for winning close games on "perceived" lesser competition. They highlighted Wisconsin for winning in overtime over Fresno State, Northerwestern for squeaking past Eastern Michigan, Indiana getting past Western Michigan, and consistently showing media unranked Michigan State being beat at home against Central Michigan. They failed to show that Iowa (who they dogged last week against Northern Iowa) blew the doors off their annual rival.

But with all of this, ESPN concentrated on how the Big 10 is just terrible. Hearing this from Reese Davis, Mark May and Kirk Herbstreit. They were giving credit to the conferences like the Big XII and the SEC. Who they want to see in the BCS title game. ESPN and other sporting media slammed the ACC last week, but they rebounded this week with only ONE non conferences loss against TCU. Where's ESPN and other sporting media's stories on that? They don't want to report them because they don't want to see an ACC champ in the BCS title game. PSU gets slammed for playing a weak non conference schedule, but Florida gets praised for blowing them out. ESPN shame on you!

But with all of their post game analysis, the college sporting world was only done midway through the day. Next we see ESPN's corporate partner the SEC, Tennessee play UCLA in Knoxville. (Did anyone notice the ESPN/SEC new logo?) Not once did we hear about UCLA's team speed which stifled the Vols all game. Next highly ranked Texas struggled in the first half with Wyoming. ESPN Halftime show indicated that Texas needed to just knock out the rust, but never said how good the Wyoming team was playing against their number 2 team in the country. The big one was the Houston beating Oklahoma State in Stillwater. This and the Tennessee loss really hurt their arguments about conference superiority.

At the end of the day, we see teams from all conferences win and lose. Kansas State lost to UL Layfayette, Purdue lost to Oregon, Ohio State loses to USC, Stanford loses to Wake Forest, Michgian State loses to Central Michigan, Virginia loses to TCU, Unlv loses to Oregon State, Air Force loses to Minnesota, and Colorado loses to Toledo. This week all teams from BCS conferences lost to other conferences, that's the way college football is and has always been.

ESPN and other sporting media (Fox Sports included) quit laying this conference superiority BS on the casual college football fan. Most of them are Harris Pollsters as well. Knowledgable college football fans know that you only care about ratings and not the actual sport themselves.  Quit hating on the Big 10 because of the Big 10 network which assisted of making ESPN Gameplan relatively useless.   Especially now since Versus and Comcast have signed up Pac 10 and Big XII games.   Now that your subjective reasoning that the Big XII and the SEC are the elite conferences in CFB just was debunked how about telling your base the truth. GO BLUE!

I am not saying that Michigan is back but it is a great day for us alums/fans. What makes Sept 12, 2009 so special you may ask? Ohio State, Michigan State, and Notre Dame all lose today. Congrats to Southern Cal, Central Michigan, and of course to the Wolverine Football team. GO BLUE!!!!

Ok I really don't get NASCAR as a popular "sport". But I have seen most of the popularity skyrocket over the last few years and has been increasing growing with TV Networks, Sponsorship, and overall coverage by fans. I see more stickers with Numbers on them that represent their favorite driver each day.

One thing I don't get is that, "How can someone get into the sport?" It's not like they have a NASCAR Little League. Do kids just run around a circle with numbers on their back? Like in Football, Baseball, Soccer, and other sports, it's relatively inexpesive. As a kid, if you didn't have a football, you could roll up some socks, or if you didn't have a soccer ball, you could balled up duct tape or any use any other ball for that matter. So how do you create a car?

NASCAR is a very expensive sport to get into. The average joe can't afford a car, maintenance, or a track to consistently use. You have to have a little dough to get those things. And still if you don't have money, you have to get someone to sponsor you. If this was the music industry, the drivers are treated like rock stars. And the pit crews are like the producers who really should get more of the credit. And people I've spoke to have their favorite driver. Really a favorite driver? How does one become a favorite driver, is it because the way he wears his helmet, or is it the way he grips grips his steering wheel?

Now some may be wondering if I ever been to a NASCAR event. Sure I've been to the Gateway International Speedway in Illinois and the Richmond Speedway in Virginia and I was never impressed about the actual "sport". The fanfare before and durring the event was quite stimulating because people really come together. But other than that, I was just watching really loud fuel guzzling cars just make left turns all day.