Which FBS Conference do you like the LEAST?
Feel free to state why.
Thank you for voting.
NOTE: This is NOT a Public Poll (others will not be able to see how you voted).
I'm going to have to go with Conference USA.
I am so tired of hearing about all the lame advantages that conference has over the MAC and how they have more in common with BCS conferences than what they do with the MAC, WAC and SBC.
The conference since its rebuilding with Marshall, UCF, Tulsa, Rice, SMU and UTEP has been a huge disappointment. No BCS bowls and most years only 1 school sent to the NCAAs.
Memphis basketball has been the one bright spot for CUSA in a rather unremarkable past half decade.
What Lou said. Otherwise it would be the Big 10 for often similar reasons.
I agree on CUSA. I'm not sure why some Temple fans like it so much.
This one is easy. Big 10 by far. They are the one's dictating college football. They forced the $2k scholarship and are opposed to the +1 because they know it will eventually lead to a playoff.
Big Ten. Conference USA Second. Big Ten is the evil greedy force behind all of our woes. A playoff, one for ones, all the things that would even the playing field they will fight to keep off the table. Greedy cowards, each and every one of them.
I will say one thing about the Big Ten from a historical perspective they've always looked at the MAC as a little brother....a little brother to protect.
The MAC and Big Ten share referees, play each other in the non-conference money games. They voted to keep the MAC in Division 1-A all those years ago. It was the PAC-10, Big West, Big Ten, MAC all voting together as a block for years against the SEC's push for TV riches.
Well, I was going to pick the Mac but that wasn't one of the options.....
Big 10 for me as I hate their collective guts but CUSA is quickly getting there. The sheer arrogance (but don't tell them that as they think they can't be arrogant because they are non-AQ) and lack of reason to be so arrogant. Further their fan bases just seem to love to be jerks by and large. Not entirely sure why.
So far you guys have voted the Big Ten as both the most and least liked. Complicated feelings I guess.
(12-30-2011 05:30 PM)TUowl06 Wrote: [ -> ]I agree on CUSA. I'm not sure why some Temple fans like it so much.
This TU fan is not in love with the C-USA. There is nothing wrong per say with the conference, it’s just so many people feel it’s on par with the 6 major conferences, I just don’t see it. MANY Temple fans would love to see a move to C-USA, I feel it would be a lateral move in football, and a step down in hoops.
I’m going in a slightly different direction choosing the SEC. I listen to College Sports Nation in Sirius and the SEC based fans call in with the attitude that all college football ends at the boarders of the SEC, that the football sun rises and sets on that conference, that college football didn’t exist before the SEC. The top teams are incredible ill give them that, but the mid level and low level teams are as bad as the mid and low level teams in ANY conference. Ole Miss couldn’t beat Delaware.
C-USA is a close second, most over rated conference in the country, and with losing the teams it did to the Big East it’s taken another step back.
(12-31-2011 04:41 PM)NYCTUFan Wrote: [ -> ]I’m going in a slightly different direction choosing the SEC. I listen to College Sports Nation in Sirius and the SEC based fans call in with the attitude that all college football ends at the boarders of the SEC, that the football sun rises and sets on that conference, that college football didn’t exist before the SEC. The top teams are incredible ill give them that, but the mid level and low level teams are as bad as the mid and low level teams in ANY conference. Ole Miss couldn’t beat Delaware.
C-USA is a close second, most over rated conference in the country, and with losing the teams it did to the Big East it’s taken another step back.
I also picked SEC, since they apparently think they run the football world. I was looking back at a couple years of previous bowl results and the SEC was about .500. The best couple SEC teams generally won, but the others did not. Some teams like Kentucky or Vanderbilt, when eligible, get into bowls and lose to pretty much anyone. Other SEC teams as well.
Yes but you will also notice that many of those SEC teams are often much lower seeded than the teams they play. BE number 5 versus SEC number 8 or so.
(12-31-2011 07:21 PM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote: [ -> ]Yes but you will also notice that many of those SEC teams are often much lower seeded than the teams they play. BE number 5 versus SEC number 8 or so.
Maybe it shouldn't be the SEC #8 vs. the BE number 5 then. The only reason it's like that is the assumption that the entire SEC is good.
Voted for ACC since they started the AQ raiding other AQ conferences and the big conference realignment and alliances.
(12-31-2011 07:26 PM)NIU007 Wrote: [ -> ] (12-31-2011 07:21 PM)Sultan of Euphonistan Wrote: [ -> ]Yes but you will also notice that many of those SEC teams are often much lower seeded than the teams they play. BE number 5 versus SEC number 8 or so.
Maybe it shouldn't be the SEC #8 vs. the BE number 5 then. The only reason it's like that is the assumption that the entire SEC is good.
Actually it is because the bowl would rather take the SEC number 8 then about anybody else except for the Big 10 schools.
Besides the games are usually fairly close. Cincinnati was one of the better BE teams this year and they were only able to beat Vandy by a score. Vandy the cute little puppy of the SEC that everybody likes to cheer for (well maybe not Tennessee) because they never win.
EDIT: By the way I looked it up Cincy is tied for number in the BE but since WVU had the highest ranking in the E they went to the BCS game. So it was BE#2 barely beating SEC #9. That is even worse. I think that is more an indictment on everybody else rather than the SEC.
I picked Sun Belt just because nobody else mentioned Sun Belt. Not that I really hate the Sun Belt. :)
(01-01-2012 01:35 PM)Steve1981 Wrote: [ -> ]Voted for ACC since they started the AQ raiding other AQ conferences and the big conference realignment and alliances.
The Big East raided our conference 6 times, attempted a 7th, destroyed our lacrosse conference, and put us in the position we're in today on the basis of not being a Catholic school like Holy Cross and BC. I'm not shedding a single tear for them getting torn apart by the ACC.
I voted for the SEC, but I could've substituted other BCS conferences in there.....I also get real tired of the boastful C-USA posters bashing other non BCS conferences and deluding themself about how great their conference (and now far flung Alliance) is, but it's not enough to have me pick them as least liked.