The front page of espn.com's college football site has a poll asking, "Which is the worst conference in college football?"
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/index
Big East - 27%
CUSA - 14%
MAC - 10%
Sun Belt - 40%
WAC - 9%
Out of nearly 6,000 votes
Sagarin's ratings say we're better than the Sun Belt and the Independents, but his rankings are still in bayesian mode. I think it switches to unbiased mode after this week, and then we should see a significant shuffle when it comes to where the conferences stand.
Code:
1 SOUTHEASTERN (A) = 80.86 80.78 ( 1) 12
2 BIG 12 (A) = 78.15 78.19 ( 2) 12
3 ATLANTIC COAST (A) = 77.38 77.01 ( 5) 12
4 BIG TEN (A) = 77.37 77.55 ( 4) 11
5 PAC-10 (A) = 76.86 77.63 ( 3) 10
6 BIG EAST (A) = 74.34 73.11 ( 6) 8
7 MOUNTAIN WEST (A) = 71.89 72.52 ( 7) 9
8 CONFERENCE USA (A) = 64.14 64.21 ( 8) 12
9 WESTERN ATHLETIC (A) = 62.72 63.51 ( 9) 9
10 MID-AMERICAN (A) = 62.20 62.26 ( 10) 13
11 I-A INDEPENDENTS (A) = 62.04 61.59 ( 11) 4
12 SUN BELT (A) = 59.65 60.08 ( 12) 8
CUSA has only played 15 BCS schools compared to the MAC's 23. If i remember correctly, the MAC has more games against BCS competition in our OOC schedules than any other conference.
WTF kind of poll is that? The ACC is worse than the Big East.
Absolutely farking retarded poll.
Take ECU out of C-USA and they're likely below us or MUCH closer.