2010 WASEAN Conference Ratings – Week 4

The cream is starting to rise to the top, and this year it looks like the Pac-10 and the SEC.

UCLA, probably the 8th best team in the Pac-10, 35-0 losers to Stanford - went out and destroyed Texas, 34-12. Stanford, one of the best teams in the country - pummeled a decent Notre Dame team. The league’s 6th best team, Oregon State hung in with Boise State, one of the best teams in the country. All three of these games were on the road.

The SEC is down a bit from the last few years, but is still a force to be reckoned with. Florida is finally starting to flex their muscles after a slow start, they moved up from #25 to #12 this week. The worst team in the league, Mississippi, blew out Fresno State (55-38), who had looked pretty strong before that game.

The ACC showed itself to be pretenders for the top spot this week. Which is strange, with Miami blowing out Pitt and UNC beating Rutgers, both on the road.

The bigger problem for the ACC was that several of the teams they played in earlier weeks showed themselves to be not as good as advertised, especially Fresno State. Right now I would say that Miami is the class of the league, with NC State and Virginia Tech as the only other viable contenders.

2010 looks it will be the year the Big East really became as bad as everyone has been saying it was for the last few years. There are some signs of live, as Cincinnati nearly knocked off Oklahoma and West Virginia played LSU tough before losing 20-14 on the road.

That being said, this league is still better than the WAC or the MWC, and if there are going to be six leagues with BCS automatic bids, WASEAN doesn’t see any reason to change that just yet.

If you are fan of FCS, the Colonial has 3 of the top 4, 4 of the top 8 and 5 of the top 13 teams right now.

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Division	Conference	WASEAN
I-A-BCS	Pac10	0.727
I-A-BCS	SEC	0.715
I-A-BCS	Big10	0.686
I-A-BCS	Big12	0.674
I-A-BCS	ACC	0.662
I-A	I-A-Ind	0.640
I-A-BCS	BigEast	0.626
I-A	WAC	0.544
I-A	CUSA	0.509
I-A	MWC	0.506
I-AA	Colonial*	0.501
I-A	MAC	0.498
I-AA	MVC*	0.446
I-AA	Southern*	0.411
I-A	SunBelt	0.405
I-AA	BigSky*	0.398
I-AA	NEC*	0.353
I-AA	GreatWest	0.345
I-AA	Ivy	0.338
I-AA	OVC*	0.311
I-AA	Southland*	0.302
I-AA	BigSouth*	0.273
I-AA	Pioneer	0.265
I-AA	Patriot*	0.264
I-AA	MEAC*	0.244
I-AA	SWAC	0.242
I-AA	I-AA-Ind	0.241