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    http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/1775385


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    Didn't get the link formatted on the mobile. Help? It's an interesting read.


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    Math says the SEC was the second-best conference in 2012

    by Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports

    Published: 12/17/2012 05:38pm

    1. Big 12 (82.27)
    2. SEC (81.16)
    3. Pac-12 (79.07)
    4. Big Ten (75.79)
    5. Independents (73.55)
    6. Big East (70.02)
    7. Atlantic Coast Conference (68.92)
    8. Western Athletic Conference (64.72)
    9. Mountain WestConference(63.95)
    10. Sun Belt (63.78)
    11. Mid-American Conference (61.33)
    13. Conference USA (59.54)

    How did the Big 12 sneak past the SEC to take home Sagarin's crown during the regular season? Because unlike the SEC, the Big 12 had no soft middle -- nine of the league's 10 teams won at least six games in 2012.

    The Big 12 also topped the SEC in Sagarin's "simple average," which adds up the combined ranking of each team in a conference and divides by the league's number of teams.

    You might notice that the above list jumps from No. 11 MAC to No. 13 Conference USA. Where's No. 12? According to Sagarin, the 12th-best football conference in the NCAA was the Missouri Valley Conference, an FCS league whose members include North Dakota State, South Dakota State and Illinois State, among others. It wasn't a banner year for Conference USA, to put it mildly.

    Copyright 2012 USATODAY.com


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    Quote Originally Posted by levetsj View Post
    Math says the SEC was the second-best conference in 2012

    by Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports

    Published: 12/17/2012 05:38pm

    1. Big 12 (82.27)
    2. SEC (81.16)
    3. Pac-12 (79.07)
    4. Big Ten (75.79)
    5. Independents (73.55)
    6. Big East (70.02)
    7. Atlantic Coast Conference (68.92)
    8. Western Athletic Conference (64.72)
    9. Mountain WestConference(63.95)
    10. Sun Belt (63.78)
    11. Mid-American Conference (61.33)
    13. Conference USA (59.54)

    How did the Big 12 sneak past the SEC to take home Sagarin's crown during the regular season? Because unlike the SEC, the Big 12 had no soft middle -- nine of the league's 10 teams won at least six games in 2012.

    The Big 12 also topped the SEC in Sagarin's "simple average," which adds up the combined ranking of each team in a conference and divides by the league's number of teams.

    You might notice that the above list jumps from No. 11 MAC to No. 13 Conference USA. Where's No. 12? According to Sagarin, the 12th-best football conference in the NCAA was the Missouri Valley Conference, an FCS league whose members include North Dakota State, South Dakota State and Illinois State, among others. It wasn't a banner year for Conference USA, to put it mildly.

    Copyright 2012 USATODAY.com
    Sure wasn't a banner year, but they'll rebound and it's where UL needs to be..

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    I hope that the coaches have hundreds of copies of this to distribute to the recruits!!!


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