Conference Rankings

    
     Pac-12, Big East, all across this country every year we that are apart of the college football world ask ourselves, which conference is the best? Right now most experts and fans think that the SEC is the strongest, I mean having the last 5 BCS national champs would make a strong case for the SEC. But, what about the BIG 12-2 conference or the Big 10+2? They had teams playing the SEC for the title four of the last five seasons! There could be a strong case there! I decided that the best way to rank the conferences is to rank them by how many coaches in each conference has won or played in a national title game. Here is how it goes. Each coach will get 2 points for winning a title and 1 point for getting their teams to the big game. All points will only be counted at the FBS level, so sorry Brian Kelly those titles at Grand Valley State won't be counted.


Southeastern Conference-Total score-11
Steve Spurrier-National Titles won-1. Title games lost 1. Total points 3
Les Miles-National Titles won-1. Title games lost 0. Total points 2
Gene Chizik-National Titles won-1. Title games lost 0. Total points 2
Nick Saban-National Titles won-2. Title games lost 0. Total points 4


Big 10+2 Conference -Total score-8
Joe Paterno-National Titles won-2. Title games lost-4. Total points 8


Big 12-2 Conference-Total score-8
Mack Brown-National Titles won-1. Title games lost-1. Total points 3
Bob Stoops-National Titles won-1. Title games lost-3. Total points 5


Pac 12 Conference-Total score-4
Dennis Erickson-National Titles won-1. Title games lost-1. Total points 3
Chip Kelly-National Titles won-0. Title games lost-1. Total points 1


Sun Belt Conference-Total score-2
Howard Schnellenberger-National Titles won-1. Title games lost 0. Total points 2


Atlantic Coast Conference-Total score-1
Frank Beamer-National Titles won-0. Title games lost 1. Total points 1


Big East Conference-Total points 0


Mountain West Conference-Total points 0


Western Athletic Conference-Total points 0


Conference USA-Total points 0


Independents-Total points 0


     After seeing the results of each league it's easy to see why the SEC is the strongest conference in college football. They not only have a 5 year winning streak in national title games, or the fact that experts claim that the league has the best players, they also have from top to bottom the best coaches in the game. Their collective score would have been 15 had Urban Meyer came back for another season. To be fair the Big 10+2 would be at 12 had the "Vest" still been coaching the Buckeyes, and why I have the Big 10+2 second strongest overall. No matter which league your team plays in, it's hard to win games at the collegiate level, let alone national titles.