College Football's FBS Conferences: Ranking Them All Heading into Week 10

The season is approaching the finish line, and teams are desperately trying to keep their footing for the last few weeks.

Most notably is the showdown between LSU and Alabama for national supremacy, and official bragging rights to carry them to the end of the season.

What is happening this week could very well decide the BCS Championship matchup.  

1. Big 12

The Cowboys blew out the decent Baylor squad, and look like they sure do belong in the No. 3 spot in the BCS rankings.

While their passing attack gets most of the headlines, they bulldozed the Bears with 327 yards rushing.

Oklahoma State

Oklahoma

Kansas State

Texas

Texas A&M

Missouri

Texas Tech

Baylor

Iowa State

Kansas

2. SEC

The controversy over who is No.1 in the SEC (and in the nation) will be decided this coming Saturday in this year’s game of the century.

While the defenses look to be similarly awesome, I believe the Crimson Tide’s offense is a little bit better and should make the difference.

Although with the “Mad Hatter” Les Miles, you never know…

Alabama

LSU

Arkansas

South Carolina

Georgia

Auburn

Florida

Vanderbilt

Mississippi State

Tennessee

Kentucky

Ole Miss 

3. Pac-12

The Cardinal prevailed over USC in an epic three-overtime thriller 56-48.

Their QB Andrew Luck reminded Heisman voters why he is the front-runner with his courageous performance in the 4th quarter and overtimes.

Stanford

Oregon

USC

Arizona State

Washington

UCLA

Oregon State

Cal

Washington State

Arizona

Utah

Colorado

4. Big 10

In a crapshoot for the No. 1 spot I went with Nebraska—the Cornhuskers defeated another contending team and looked to be rounding into shape defensively…are the Blackshirts really back?

Nebraska

Michigan

Penn State

Michigan State

Wisconsin

Ohio State

Illinois

Purdue

Iowa

Northwestern

Minnesota

Indiana 

5. ACC

Clemson’s National Title hopes are gone after their 31-17 loss at Georgia Tech, but they still look like the BCS team out of the ACC.

They need to bounce back quickly however against Wake Forest.

Clemson

Virginia Tech

Georgia Tech

Florida State

North Carolina

Wake Forest

Virginia

Miami

Duke

North Carolina State

Boston College Maryland

6. Big East

QB Zach Collaros is a dangerous playmaker, and the Big East BCS spot is within the Bearcats' grasp—let’s see if they can snag it.

Cincinnati

West Virginia

Pitt

Louisville

Rutgers

Syracuse

UConn

South Florida

7. Mountain West

The Broncos are looking more and more like an undefeated team that won’t make the BCS Title Game, no matter what brilliant QB Kellen Moore has to say about that.

Boise State

TCU

Wyoming

San Diego State

Colorado State

Air Force

UNLV

New Mexico

8. Conference USA

Houston is looking like yet another undefeated squad who definitely won’t make the BCS Title Game, but could they sneak into any BCS game? QB Case Keenum would be worth the price of admission.

Houston

Southern Miss

Tulsa

East Carolina

Central Florida

SMU

UTEP

Marshall

Memphis

Rice

Tulane

UAB

9. Independents

The Fighting Irish rebounded from their loss to USC by annihilating Navy—Notre Dame must now look to play spoiler in their final game against Stanford.

Notre Dame

BYU

Navy

Army

10. MAC

The Rockets have been going off lately, winning four straight.

With a favorable last part of their schedule coming up, look for Toledo to play in the MAC Championship Game.

Toledo

Temple

Eastern Michigan

Northern Illinois

Western Michigan

Ohio

Ball State

Bowling Green

Miami OH

Central Michigan

Buffalo

Kent State

Akron

11. WAC

The Wolf Pack have been playing better recently, and they control their own destiny in the wacky WAC.

Nevada

Hawaii

Louisiana Tech

San Jose State

Fresno State

Utah State

New Mexico State

Idaho

12. Sun Belt

The Red Wolves are off to their best start in school history and are in the Sun Belt driver’s seat.

Their late season showdown with Louisiana-Lafayette should decide the title.

Arkansas State

Louisiana-Lafayette

Western Kentucky

Florida International

North Texas

Middle Tennessee State

Troy

Louisiana Monroe

Florida Atlantic