Pac-10 Football Is Better Than SEC Football: Part One

Samford @ Ole Miss

Wofford @ South Carolina

Tennessee-Martin @ Auburn

The Citadel @ Florida

Pac-10 (2)

Northern Arizona @ Arizona State

Portland State @ Washington State

The Pac-10 takes pride in their non-conference scheduling.  They don't mar their schedule with the Samfords and the Woffords of the world.  The SEC plays NINE games this year that make no difference to anybody in the world except for the FCS team they're playing.

This is not even to mention all the lower-tier FBS schools the SEC schedules that the Pac-10 doesn't.  I won't go into that because it is more subjective.

The SEC Doesn't Play Big Games

All I'm saying is that we would never see an SEC team playing an early-season thriller.  The SEC will never play a big non-conference game during the season.

The biggest SEC non-conference matchup we'll ever see is Arizona State-Georgia—and even that is not that exciting, considering Georgia is coming in as the top-ranked team in the country.

We'll never see No. 2 Ohio State versus No. 4 Texas.  We'll never see Notre Dame versus USC.  We'll never see this year's Ohio State-USC matchup.

That will never happen in the SEC because they're too worried about protecting themselves early in the season so they can have their shot at winning the national championship. 

Unfortunately, under the current system, playing a weak non-conference schedule and winning all your games will usually get you to the national championship game.

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