Pac-10 versus SEC. Quantity or Quality?

This is the classic Quality vs. Quantity debate. The best conference in college football over the past few years has been without question the SEC, this year they might still have some of the best teams, but they don't have that same excitement they have over the past years. The Pac-10 however, has 5 teams in the top 25, 11 Oregon, 17 Stanford, 18 USC, 19 Oregon State, and 25 California, versus the SEC, who has 3 top 25 teams in 1 Florida, 2 Alabama, and 8 LSU. So, does the quality of the SEC make it a better conference than the Pac-10 who has 5 but none in the top 10? Probably by the next standings, Oregon will be back in the top ten, but for now they are 11.

There is definitely more interesting games going on in the Pac-10 at the moment, and up until the past hour it was still wide open. Oregon just beating Arizona in double OT sets up an interesting "Civil War" Rivalry game that is effectively for the Pac-10 Championship. The quality of games going on in the Pac-10 seems to rival the quality of games the SEC had in 2007, with upsets going on everywhere.

The Pac-10 record versus the SEC is 11-8, mostly thanks to UCLA sweeping series against Alabama and Tennessee. From Top to bottom, the Pac-10 is 55-34 this season as a whole, the SEC is 74-46. The SEC has 2 more teams than the Pac-10 total, and none of them are winless like Washington State. The SEC's Winning percentage this season is 61.6% and the Pac-10's is 61.8%. So, even with two unbeaten teams and the Pac-10 having a winless team, the Pac-10's record is still better. As I said, it's a quality versus quantity debate, but as for entertainment value this season, the Pac-10 is the most exciting conference in College Football this season. We effectively have an exciting Pac-10 Championship game next week, all while Florida is gonna be thumping Florida State into a pulp and Alabama should route a mediocre Auburn team. So, which is the better conference? I'm not saying that the best team from the Pac-10 could beat the SEC Champion, but from top to bottom, the Pac-10 is better. Still, the SEC has the past 3 national championships, and two of the top three teams in the country. The debate is still open, which is a better thing for a conference to have, a number of good teams, or a few dominant teams that roll over everyone else until they smash into each other at the end of the season? An age old debate, quality versus quantity.