This being the night of the NCAA basketball championship, it makes complete sense to me to post my recurring NCAA football bowl season standings. Actually, there is a very good reason to pair these two events. The underlying theme of all of my bowl season posts is that the little guy is being unfairly kept down by they man. The "experts" that heavily influence popular sentiment insist on repeating the same nonsense year after year that only serves to prop up the status quo and ignore the facts. Yet once again the Mountain West Conference showed they were just as much a power conference as the SEC and Pac-10 and absolutely shamed the ACC and Big 12. Despite the best efforts of the talking heads to marginalize these teams and the power brokers to lock them out of the big money games, the mid-major football conferences produced a that rightly deserved to be called national champion. Numbers don't lie. Kurt Herbstreet does.
Then of course this years NCAA basketball tournament did more to make the Sportscenter yakkers look bad than Boise State ever did. First, the major conference backers were apoplectic at just the thought of the 8th best team in the ACC or Big 12 didn't make the tournament and that the lowly VCU Rams did. How could the tournament not reward a mediocre team with a vast recruiting advantage in favor of a team tried to get in by winning basketball games? Shame on VCU. But it didn't matter, because the tournament organizers banished VCU to the hinterlands of the play-in game. Unfortunately for Dick Vitale, VCU won that game and then 2 more. All against the talking heads preferred talking heads. Their was nothing better than seeing Vitale eating crow after VCU made the Sweet Sixteen. But even then he wouldn't admit he was wrong. He claimed that many teams in the ugly step sister NIT tournament could have done what VCU did and predicted they would soon loss. Only problem is they didn't. They kept winning. Virgina Tech and Colorado couldn't make the Final Four of the NIT, let alone the NCAA tournament. So much for all the insider knowledge Vitale possesses.
The real question I have is why anyone ever listens to these guys? They are never right. They don't even seem to be pay attention to what is happening on the field/court (See Joe Morgan). Why does ESPN pay these guys millions of dollars when I guy off the street would do the same talking head job for $10 and be just as right in predicting games as "The Swami".
Final College Football Bowl Standings
| Conference | W | L | GB |
| MWC | 4 | 1 | - |
| Big East | 4 | 2 | 0.5 |
| Ind | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Sun Belt | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| SEC | 5 | 5 | 1.5 |
| MAC | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| Pac10 | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| WAC | 2 | 2 | 1.5 |
| ACC | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| Big Ten | 3 | 5 | 2.5 |
| Big12 | 3 | 5 | 2.5 |
| C-USA | 2 | 4 | 2.5 |
Bowl Season Performance - 2007-2010
| Conference | W | L | GB |
| SEC | 24 | 13 | - |
| MWC | 16 | 5 | - |
| Big 12 | 16 | 12 | 3.5 |
| Pac-10 | 13 | 9 | 3.5 |
| Sun Belt | 5 | 3 | 4.5 |
| Ind. | 4 | 3 | 5 |
| Big East | 12 | 13 | 6 |
| Big Ten | 14 | 17 | 7 |
| C-USA | 10 | 14 | 7.5 |
| WAC | 5 | 11 | 8.5 |
| ACC | 13 | 21 | 9.5 |
| MAC | 3 | 14 | 11 |
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