We're halfway through the 2010 college football regular season (sadface), and with the first week of the BCS rankings released, BCS Evolution thought it the perfect time take a look at how the conferences stack up, using the same criteria that the BCS uses for automatic qualification.
BCS Standings, Where The Big 12 Rules And The MWC Threatens
When looking at a conference comparison using an average of all teams in the six BCS computers, it’s not surprising to see that 1) the Big 12 is good (Oklahoma’s No. 1 ranking and four of the top-16 teams certainly helps) and 2) the ACC is bad, “fairing worse than usual.”
But the biggest winner may be the Mountain West Conference.
In the second half of their post, BCS Evaluation examines how things might shape up after all the conferences add and subtract their new teams for the 2011 season, when the BCS establishes the automatic qualifiers for 2012-13, and it’s looking like MWC’s expansion will be worthwhile, with a possibility of passing the ACC to become the sixth AQ conference.
MWC fans should be pulling for Fresno State, Nevada and Boise State to collectively run the table on the rest of the WAC and for Utah to drop a couple in conference, not counting BYU. (As if BYU counts this year.) They should also be pulling against the Big East, as that is the only conference they have any chance of passing in the second metric.
Even so, they likely would need twice the lead they have now in the computer average next year to overcome past years.
The ACC had better watch out for the 2013 evaluation, assuming the BCS continues to use the current paradigm after 2014. They would not be eligible for a petition and the Orange Bowl has had the option to change their primary tie in to the Big East in the past
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