West Virginia
USC
LSU/Ohio State

If Ohio State wins they're national champs, with only 1 loss.

All the other teams will have bowl wins and 2 losses.  The team with the most quality losses is LSU.  USC, and West Virginia have Stanford and Pitt to explain.  LSU has Kentucky and Arkansas.  Maybe the teams that they lost to are better than the teams we lost to, but it still doesn't mean a darn thing if the teams don't play on the field.

The title only is really going to mean something to the team that wins it.  There are just too many good teams this year that can play with anyone.  I don't think USC deserves to be the national champ this year.  But for an LSU fan to think that they deserve it, is just as ludicrous.  Its all meaningless anyway without a playoff, which probably won't happen in my lifetime.

Due to the fact that I have researched this issue for four years and followed the same themes all four years I might add, this smear campaign against the PAC-10 runs far deeper than just the BCS era, as it extended well into the CFA era as well.

The SEC has always taken itself too seriously, and due to the fact that the Rose Bowl has been the second highest BCS bowl, next to the championship game (in terms of ratings), the SEC, Big-12 and ACC can't wait to get their hands on the Rose Bowl.  

If we eliminated the poll system, which is run largely by ex players and administrators who were party to Chuck Neinas and the CFA, I would support this.  If the bowls were actually determined head-to-head, without the manipulative influences of television and the elite bowl structure, then it would be good for the game.

I disagree with Dawg Sports.  You can ask any SEC fan, and I have friends in high places all over the country, and they will tell you flat out every time they think the PAC-10 is soft.  They don't think we can play at all out here, other than USC.

I like USC, I really do, but other than USC, the PAC-10 doesn't hold a lot of credibility within the coaches poll or the Harris Poll, and since every team in the South wants the notoriety and television exposure that the Rose Bowl can bring, other than USC, no other PAC-10 team would stand a chance of getting voted high enough in the polls.

If you question this, consider Oregon, in both 2002 and 2005 and California in 2004.  Even Washington in 2001, without the automatic tie in, wouldn't be given an opportunity if the coaches and harris poll were the determining factors.

This really is why the PAC-10 will not budge.  With the way the harris poll and the coaches poll, as well as the networks, who are always on the SEC/Big-12 bandwagon, the primary breeding ground of the CFA, which is really the BCS at work...with the way this all fits together, what else is the PAC-10 supposed to do.

Consider this:  All year long we have heard how the SEC is the best.  Who in their right mind would consider a conference who went a mere 12-9 against the other BCS Conferences, and more importantly, went 2-5 against other teams ranked in the Top-35...who in their right mind would consider that conference to be the best?

This constant SEC hype machine and the media's insistence that the Rose Bowl is the culprit responsible for the problems preventing a plus one is a bunch of hogwash.  If you think the SEC hype machine is out of hand now, just wait until the Rose Bowl jumps into the alliance.  It would quickly spiral out of hand, as if it already isn't.

NCAA Abandons BCS, Implements New Argument-Based System For Determining College Football Rankings

INDIANAPOLIS--The NCAA Board of Governors announced Monday that it would be abandoning the complicated BCS formula, with its interdependent network of media and coaches polls and computer rankings, in favor of a more streamlined and manageable system consisting of millions of arguments among fans. "We feel that by monitoring opinions expressed during football-related arguments held in the nation's bars, restaurants, lunchrooms, Internet message boards, and dinner tables, we can amass all the data we need to rank the nation's college football teams throughout the season," NCAA president Myles Brand said in a press release detailing the argument-monitoring system already in place at most Division I colleges. "The best thing about this system is that arguments about the accuracy of the previous week's arguments are automatically factored in to each week's rankings. We feel we've finally found the solution fans have been demanding for years." Detractors of the new system claim it will reward larger schools with more vocal, more strident, and simply louder fans, as a recent test of the system had Texas, Michigan, Ohio State, Tennessee, Florida State, USC, Boston College, and Alabama all tied for first place.

People like Chuck Neinas was never voted as one of the 25 most powerful men in sports of the previous century.  And he currently really doesn't make an absurd amount money hiring all the key administrators and coaches at the elite schools who make up this unionized alliance.

And people like Bobby Bowden, Joe Paterno, Barry Switzer, Vince Dooley, Frank Broyles and  the like have never really worked on the television contracts and are not really involved in the Harris Poll.

And the SEC really is the best conference, even though they went 2-5 against the opponents who ranked in the Top-35 this year.

And at the end of the day, within this season of parity, the same schools who invented, controlled and developed not only the CFA, but the Harris Poll, are all voted in the top-10 this year.

But you are absolutely right, I have written this book as part of a life long goal and dream and I just wanted to throw a bunch of loose facts together and call myself a conspiracy theorist so no one would take it seriously.

Not only are you misinformed, I would be embarrassed to call myself a prudent and knowledgeable fan of college football.  That statement, given everything that is going on right now and in the past decade as far as this smear campaign against the PAC-10, is simply moronic.  

Here is another tip...go back to Bruins Nation where you arrogant assholes, like your founder Nestor, can all back-stab your current coaching staff and tell us how Pete Carroll is worried about Neu-weasel.  It is one reason why I don't EVER visit Bruins Nation - there isn't any intelligent communication going on.