The latest college footballSagarin ratings are posted. Some interesting tidbits:

1. The Pac 10 is rated the best conference in the country and at the very least is on par with the SEC. Not really too surprising. The conference always grades out well with Sagarin simply because the SOS Pac10 teams play are meaningfully tougher than any other conference. 7 teams in the conference have a top 16 SOS versus 2 from the SEC. There is no doubt this is helped by the additional in conference game played by the Pac 10 versus anyone else and the fact that this necessitates less home games as well, no matter how debilitating that may be to them in the national championship picture (and it is a severe penalty).

2. The Big 10 is the worst BCS conference, even more so than the Big East. Anyone who has had the pleasure of watching the 11am CT Big 10 game because they need a football fix knows how painful it is watching this type of football.

3. The Big 12 is 0-10 vs Top 30 Sagarin teams. That they have only played 10 games vs the top 30 (Pac 10 has played 21 with 2 less teams) is embarrassment enough, but 5 teams have a SOS greater than 100 (Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, and Texas A&M). There are 119 Div-1A teams. Baylor, Iowa State, and Kansas State all have SOS's ranked 87+.

4. Which leads us to this question: Why is Texas even involved in the National Championship debate right now? They have the 100th toughest SOS to date in D-1A football and they have yet to even PLAY, let alone beat, a team in the top 30.

All of this statistical analysis begs for a playoff. It is obvious that there is no continuity in SOS and it is equally clear that voters all but ignore the inherent schedule inequities between conferences (BCS opponents, home games, conference games). It also proves that the Pac 10 conference needs to abolish their 9th in conference game as it does nothing but hurt the perception of the conference in the biased polls.