From: acdendy@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (ROGER DENDY)
Subject: Roger's Top 25--rankings by conference
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Date:  8 Jan 1993 19:14 EST  

I thought I'd add a data point to all the Best Conference debate.  Note 
that relative bowl performances between conferences only say anything about 
the best teams in those conferences.  Here is a tabulation of teams and 
weights in each conference, top to bottom.

[Preemptive apology: I would have looked up the conference affiliations, 
but I didn't have them handy, so these are from memory.  If I left your 
favorite team out, or changed their conference, sorry.]

Conferences appear in order of highest ranked team.

SEC				ACC
---				---
1 Alabama	2.35		2 Florida State		2.34
10 Georgia	1.84		17 NC State		1.65
11 Tennessee	1.76		20 North Carolina	1.54
16 Florida	1.66		30 Wake Forest		1.34
23 ole Miss.	1.43		31 Virginia		1.32
32 Miss St	1.29		41 Clemson		1.16
44 S Carolina	1.10		46 Georgia Tech		1.08
55 Auburn	.98		71 Duke			.79
61 Vanderbilt	.92		75 Maryland		.74
70 Kentucky	.79					---
79 Arkansas	.68		Average			1.33
89 LSU		.57
		---
Average		1.28	

PAC-10				Big East
------				--------
4 Washington	2.11		5 Miami			2.09
6 Stanford	2.03		9 Syracuse		1.89
14 Wash St	1.68		24 Boston College	1.39
21 Arizona	1.52		38 West Virginia	1.18
22 USC		1.45		42 Rutgers		1.12
26 Oregon	1.37		83 Virginia Tech	.65
28 ASU		1.35		85 Pitt			.64
33 UCLA		1.28		100 Temple		.15
48 Cal		1.04					----
91 Oregon St	.52		Average			1.14
		----
Average		1.40

Big 10				SWC
------				---
7 Michigan	1.99		8 Texas A&M		1.94
12 Ohio St	1.76		35 Baylor		1.26
34 Penn St*	1.28		36 Rice			1.24
47 Illinois	1.07		45 Texas		1.08
49 Mich St	1.04		53 Texas Tech		1.02
50 Wisconsin	1.04		81 SMU			.67
60 Indiana	.93		88 Houston		.59
64 Iowa		.88		96 TCU			.47
67 Purdue	.83					----
82 Northwestn	.67		Average			1.03
93 Minnesota	.50
		----
Average		1.09
*Plays Big10 in 93

Big 8				WAC
-----				---
13 Nebraska	1.75		18 Hawaii		1.60
15 Colorado	1.68		25 Fresno St		1.37
27 Kansas	1.36		29 BYU			1.35
43 Oklahoma	1.11		40 San Diego St		1.17
76 Kansas St	.74		52 Air Force		1.03
80 Okla St	.67		58 Utah			.96
90 Missouri	.54		68 Utah St		.83
94 Iowa St	.50		72 Colorado St		.76
		----		74 Wyoming		.74
Average		1.04		92 New Mexico		.50
							---
				Average			1.03

MAC				Big West
---				--------
19 Bowling Gn	1.54		59 San Jose St		.95
37 Toledo	1.23		73 UNLV			.74
54 W Michigan	1.00		78 Nevada		.69
56 Miami Oh	.98		84 New Mexico St	.65
62 Akron	.92		99 UTEP			.19
63 C Michigan	.91		104 CS Fullerton	-.06
69 Ball St	.81					----
102 Kent	.09		Average			.53
103 E Michigan	.03
107 Ohio	-.15
		-----
Average		.74

So, if you believe these numbers, the conference rankings go:

PAC-10		1.40
ACC		1.33
SEC		1.28
Big East	1.14
Big 10		1.09
Big 8		1.04
SWC		1.03
WAC		1.03
MAC		.74
Big West	.53 
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     But that's just MY opinion.	Roger Dendy
     acdendy@convx1.lerc.nasa.gov	Analex Corp.
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