re: PAC 12 is an easier road to the BCSNCG than the old PAC 10...

I apologize to LSU fans who unfortunately had to educate my fellow PAC brothers on the landscape of CFB and of our own PAC-12 Conference. You Trojan and Duck need to learn our Conference and CFB better.

The PAC-12 has not changed from playing 9 Conference games. All that was changed for the new PAC-12 was adding 2 teams, dropping Round Robin, and adding a Conference title game. 2 teams also now play 10 PAC games a year by having such a title game.

This season the Big 12 copied the old PAC-10's RR formula which also equaled 9 Conference games/year. The Big Ten also is on record of saying they will also change to 9 Conference games/year but not for several more years down the road.

It is true that if a Conference drops a rent-a-win, such as the SEC always gets at end of season, and replaces it with a Conference game, it makes the Conference weaker automatically because that gives 6 Auto loses, or 5 Auto ones, depending on said Conference. It also hurts in sending many teams to bowls, ie like how the PAC only sent 4 teams bowling last year. Thus the more Conference games you play, the harder it gets for any team.

To the OP, it is both easier and harder to go to a BCSNCG in the new PAC-12. Easier because it helps with computers and human votes if they play an extra game. Hurts because one may have to beat a great team twice. Much risk to lose by playing that extra game. That is why all the Big-12 coaches hated playing it.