Coming off an awful week 3, the Pathetic-9 once again lived up to being the most overrated conference in college football. See: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/57299-is-the-pac-10-the-most-overrated-conference-in-college-football
Last weekend the Pathetic-9 proved that they just cannot beat teams from the MWC, as they went 0-4 vs. BYU, New Mexico, UNLV and TCU.
Why is it now the Pathetic-9? Well, because USC is in a class of its own.
I believe it is now time for USC to join a new conference. Perhaps, they could form their own conference or join the Independents. Or maybe they should just rename the Pac-10 “USC and the Pathetic 9”
The strength of schedule in conference play for USC is becoming weaker and weaker. If USC was in the MWC or WAC, they would have a tougher SOS.
The Pac-10 also needs to start having a championship game so that the Trojans can get at least one more ranked game on their schedule, that is, if anyone in the Pathetic-9 is even ranked.
This weekend the Pathetic-9’s best team, No. 17 Oregon, lost at home to Boise State. So much for the Ducks being invincible at Autzen Stadium. It was over by halftime when Boise took a 24-6 lead. Boise then went up 37-13 by the end of the third quarter. Oregon did make a comeback attempt, but ultimately fell short 37-32.
The “USC and the Pathetic-9” conference will now have one ranked team, USC. None of the Pathetic-9 will be ranked, nor do they deserve to be ranked.
Arizona State was ranked, and lost to UNLV at home.
Cal was ranked, and lost at Maryland.
And Oregon was ranked, and lost to Boise State at home.
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Hugh Jazz 9 months ago
So what if the Pac 10 sucks this year, USC will win the National Championship, and is already loaded for next year when Sanchez and McKnight come back. Not to mention they already have the best recruiting class for 2009, which means that USC will be the favorite to go to the title game for the next 5 years or so. It's really nothing new to mention the fact that beyond USC, the Pac 10 is weak, weaker than most conferences in the country.
The Pac 10 is not nearly as overrated as the SEC. That's because realistically, people do not except that much out of the Pac 10, because they already know, like the author here so blatantly pointed out, that the Pac 10 is USC and everyone else. However, the SEC is embarrassingly overrated, except for Florida. Every other team does not deserve to be ranked where they are, Georgia included, but Florida should be #2 by now. it will be USC-Florida in the title game this year, USC will win and represent the Pathetic 9, so shut up SEC fanboy.
SEC has 12 teams anyways, so whenever you try to compare the Pac 10 to the Big 12 and SEC it's pointless. Stanford, Oregon State, Washington State and really UCLA and Arizona have not been relevant for almost a decade now, except that one year when Oregon State had Chad Ocho Cinco and TJ Housh and owned Notre Dame in a BCS bowl. That's already half the conference. Most people already know that running down the Pac 10 team by team exposes how shallow the talent really is outside of LA, Berkeley and Eugene. Arguing the strength of a conference does not reflect on a team's ability, it's not like USC sucks because their conference does, so what's the point of this article?
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John Scott 9 months ago
you kinda proved my point, that its USC and everyone else, so thanks!
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Gerald Ball 9 months ago
Hugh:
Did the column above even mention the SEC? No. So why did you bring them up? A better question: why is everyone, especially the PAC 10, so determined to tear the SEC down? Instead of tearing other people down, why doesn't your own conference get better?
And hilarious that you would say "Florida is the only SEC school that deserves to be ranked so high." Don't you even realize that LSU and Auburn have better records than Florida over the past 5 years? 2006 was the only year since 2001 that Florida even won more than 9 games!
Look, I actually believe the Big 12 may be the best conference this year, because no one is playing as well on offense as Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech, Missouri, and Kansas are. (Now some of those programs are having trouble on DEFENSE but the team that scores the most points win. Also the Big 12 incontrovertibly has better QBs, because past Tim Tebow, John Parker Wilson, and MAYBE Matt Stafford the SEC doesn't have much ... this isn't earlier in the decade when Eli Manning, Jason Campbell, JaMarcus Russell, Matt Jones, Chris Leak (bombed in the NFL but a great college player) and David Greene (ditto) were all in the conference. And by the way ... this was back when everyone claimed that the SEC was so overrated!
So even if the SEC is overrated this season, you just cannot ignore what LSU, Auburn, Georgia, and Florida have accomplished this decade: 3 - 0 in BCS title games, a 13 - 0 season, and 10 - 2 in BCS bowl games. No other conference comes close, and that isn't what SEC schools have been given but rather have earned on the field.
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Brett Jones 9 months ago
LOL the Pac-9 is a joke
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Brett Field 9 months ago
Oregon came within 5 points of beating a very good team while playing a quarterback who could not hit the backside of a barn for half the game. Had they put in Darron Thomas (Dennis Dixon 2.0) in the 3rd quarter they would have won the game going away
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Michael Bear 9 months ago
Well John about Mr. Neuheisel, UCLA was predicted to win about 3 games this year. That was until they beat Tennessee which moved it up to 4. He was left with nothing, a completely bare cupboard. Just wait a couple years.
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Gerald Ball 9 months ago
Yep, wait a couple of years, and UCLA will have no defense, no running game, and be on probation for NCAA violations, just like Neuheisel did at Colorado and Washington. Neuheisel would always win with the other guy's players, lose when his own players came in, and cheat because he was too lazy to recruit.
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Alex Harrington 9 months ago
My oh my...how soon we forget the USC's place in the world in the 80s and 90s. Mediocrity...while the other teams in the league (ie Washington, UCLA, Washington State) were carrying the Pac-10 flag. Things will pick up in the PAC-10 eventually.
The Pete Carroll leaves the school will be the day that 80s and 90s version of USC will return...
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Tyler Bishop 9 months ago
SEC fans are so arrogant. Even when they do have the best conference, they spend their time berating everyone else. NEWSFLASH you aren't nearly as amazing as you believe yourself to be. I'll be looking forward to that USC-vs-SEC National Title game, as should you.
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John Scott 9 months ago
I am, and we're not as amazing as we think but the SEC has 6 ranked teams..
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David Torbeck 9 months ago
How is the Pac any worse than the ACC or Big East?
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John Scott 9 months ago
It isn't.
The point of this article is that the Pac-10 is not on the same level as the SEC or Big-12. If you read my other article on the Pac-10 I stated that the Pac-10 is on about the same level as Big East or ACC.
And without USC the Pac-10 shouldn't even be considered a BCS conference.
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Bill McGuffrey 9 months ago
Except for NFL Pre-Combine/SC, the PAC-10 is young and more importantly, is having a major quarterback injury rash the last couple of years. The Oregon situation is shocking/amazing. Cal's starter last year went down and played 6 games (mistakenly) with a broken foot. UCLA, as much as I hate them, it going for the QB injury trophy that Oregon now holds. It wouldn't be an issue if all the other conferences didn't steal kids out of California/West Coast backyards and we'd have some depth.
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Jeff Kneis 9 months ago
The Pac-10 was never supposed to be a great conference this year. There are good players for all teams coming back, but other than USC, no other team had a complete team coming back. Oregon has QB and DT issues, Cal has WR and QB issues, ASU has a terrible o-line, Arizona has a bad D and a good O, and everyone else is bad. The SEC is overrated. Please put a good athlete on offense for once. If I had watched a 3-2 game I could quit watching forever and started watching soccer. SEC has just as many questions, they just have played some poor competition. MWC > TCC (Terrible Coast Conference). You just worry about you conference and we will worry about ours. See you in the National Championship, if you can get a team there.
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