College Football This Year

Let's get this out in the clear: The landscape of college football has changed drastically in even the last three or four years. Heck, the landscape of football has changed in the last five years. We are in a transitional phase where the game has become less and less physical, and more so based on speed.

We are also seeing more and more teams with smaller recruiting bases becoming bigger threats on a weekly basis. The big boys, outside of a few, are slowly becoming less and less scary. I think this is important when debating this issue. Who of those teams is here to stay? I look at the Big Ten, and see that teams like Minnesota and Northwestern are again sitting at the bottom of the conference. However, if you look back five years ago, these teams were more towards the middle and top of the conference. My point is that it takes a lot more than to look at this season and claim conference supremacy.

My travels through the annals of the internet have led me to believe that a lot of people feel this way. You have the SEC fans who think that Florida's victory over Ohio State in the NC game has given them the title of the best conference. You have the Pac-10 fans who see Oregon, USC, Arizona St. and Cal (not so much now) and think they're looking strong. These conferences have the media pull, especially the SEC. That's why everywhere you read, the SEC would seem to have the upper hand. But do they? Is there any evidence to back this up?