re: BCS works __% of the time? 27%

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Shouldn't a superior 8 game + conference champ game schedule trump a three game OOC schedule? There has not been a year any time this decade that the Big XII was better than the SEC

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This is an argument favored by an alarming majority of posters on the rant. The assumption is that the SEC is better than all the other conferences, and therefore there exists an inherent scheduling advantage in playing in the SEC.

But the truth is that the only thing we can know for certain about any conference is which team is the best team within that conference. While we may think that teams from one conference are better than teams from another, without actual evidence to support that conclusion, the BCS cannot make that conclusion.

2004 was such a year. Even though many thought the SEC, and therefore Auburn as its champion, were better than the champion of the Big XII, there was no evidence of that outsides the bounds of the conference.

This kind of thing can happen again if we adopt the philosophy that the SEC is tough enough, why schedule challenging OOC games? That's exactly what cost Auburn that year. Contrarily, it is was saved us in 2007 - our victory over Virginia Tech.