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Regarding Pac-10 versus SEC conference strength, well, get your gyroscope ready, as you'll have to start spinning again. You refused to care that the Pac-10 has won 6 of the last 7 head-to-head meetings between the conferences. Well, how about this if the Pac-10 is such a 'wuss' conference:

In a study by the NFLPA of the top 36 college football programs producing NFL players from 1998-2002, EIGHT of the top 36 colleges were Pac-10 schools, and SIX were SEC schools. The Pac-10's EIGHT teams was the MOST of any conference in the top 36. Here are the numbers for you to attempt spinning:

Pac-10: # of players in the NFL, 1998-2002:

USC - 157 players, 73 starters
Washington - 154 players, 70 starters
Cal - 133 players, 59 starters
UCLA - 131 players, 58 starters
Arizona State - 129 players, 53 starters
Stanford - 94 players, 36 starters
Arizona - 93 players, 27 starters
Washington State - 82 players, 31 starters

SEC:

Tennessee - 181 players, 76 starters
Florida - 169 players, 73 starters
Georgia - 144 players, 81 starters
Auburn - 128 players, 55 starters
LSU - 126 players, 42 starters
Alabama - 66 players, 32 starters

Check the drop-off to Alabama, and God knows where the rest of this stud conference registers.

Also, the Big 10 has 7 teams in the top 36, the Big East has 6, the ACC and the Big 12 have four each, and Notre Dame is the one independent. So, AHEM, the Pac-10 had the MOST teams among the top 36 colleges in sending players to the NFL. That would be, THE MOST teams of any conference. As in, MOST. But of course, the NFL just loves to stock their team rosters with players from 'wuss' conferences. You should be paying me for this education. You can win a lot of bets at that Bayou Hooters with this stuff.

I already told you, you just ignore the facts. This isn't conference to conference competition. The NFL isn't a long haul playoff--it's recruiting position players. And damned if the air conference that is the PAC doesn't also happen to have lots of WRs and QBs that end up in the NFL, because the NFL needs to replace them so often. They get hurt playing real football in the NFL.

Of course, it's a cinch that the PAC would end up having more players generally recruited, too, because the NFL doesn't generally recruit players that have poor injury records, and God knows, you have to be a featherweight to get hurt playing in the PAC.

But you wait until the playoffs happen, and they're on the way even sooner now that USC is whining and Gateway is helping. Spew your irrelevant statbook all you want. It'll be settled on the field, and that will be that. After you drown in your sherry for weeks over USC (or Stanford, or whatever great-PAC-hope is anointed that year) losing by the second round, your PAC buddies will sadly lead your dear sobbing Muffy away, saying, "He'll get better, he'll quit the booze, he'll be right back to his old self, when the PAC grows a pair...come to think of it, maybe you SHOULD consider a divorce."