The SEC

First of all, apologies for the delay on this article. I've been recently hired to be a RA for my University so training for that was pretty extraneous and time consuming, so I hardly had much time to get the data and break it down for the SEC. But finally here it is! Thank you for the patience, and with that being said, the school year is coming pretty quickly so I might be changing up how often/when I will be posting and about what. I'm thinking Fridays will be a preview for Nebraska football (because bias), as well as a tiny outlook for the slate on Saturday (Unless there is an interesting game on that Thursday, then I might post Thursday). Sunday will then be a recap as well as an update on my personal rankings based off of my formula. We'll figure it out, this will be an adventure for all of us, so I appreciate all of the support on this project! The post for the last preview, The Big Ten and the season overview, will be posted at some point, hopefully by next Sunday, but just know that it might not be on a Sunday, like this wasn't on a Sunday.

Pac-12 Preview

In the national scheme, the Pac-12 is a fairly overrated and underrated conference at the same time. I mean this in a slightly gentle way, meaning there are teams that are getting the wrong kind of attention. Which in turn, makes this a very balanced and interesting conference to watch. They have a national contender (Oregon) but a slew of everyone else that can knock out Oregon if the cards are played correctly. But this past week I’ve been sitting here listening to experts call Stanford and UCLA as major contenders for the Pac-12, and even national championship aspirations. What? UCLA first of all lost their already overrated QB (so glad he went to the Packers) so there’s a new guy in town who has seen some looks in games and he’s even worse than Hundley. And he’s in charge of an already mediocre offense. On the other hand, Stanford? Really? Some people are calling last year an off year, but I think that was an accurate representation of this Stanford squad. Really bad offense but they played tight D to keep them in games. The outlook for Stanford this year (which will be detailed later) is roughly the same.

And then here we have some underrated teams that could easily become the dark horse of the conference, much more so than UCLA or Stanford. I’m looking at you California and Utah, both of whom are returning key starters on their forte of the ball (Cali on offense, Utah on defense). Hell, even the Arizonas aren’t getting enough love, they have the power (and the schedule in some regard) to run the table. And let’s not forget, this is USC’s “peak year” as I like to call it. So enough chit-chat and let’s break down the favorites, the overrated, the underrated, and the mediocre.