Someone asked me how I would rate the non-BCS conferences on quality.
1) Mountain West - 3 top 25-calibre teams (most years), with another solid program in Air Force and only 1 really bad team (San Diego State).
2) Conference USA - has good balance, maybe not the upper echelon teams like the MWC but only 1 or 2 real stinkos. Every team except SMU has been to a bowl game in the last 6 years.
3) WAC - take Boise State out and this league looks more like the Sun Belt. Fresno State and Hawaii are both good programs but couldn't carry the league without Boise State. The bottom 3 teams are capable of losing 10 games every season (Idaho, Utah State, and New Mexico State).
4) MAC - it is a pretty balanced league most years, but the balance is that there are not really any quality teams. Ball State, last year's flagship program won 12 games, but couldn't win the conference, and then got demolished by Tulsa in their bowl game. They played two decent teams and lost BIG both times. What does that say about the rest of the league?
5) Sun Belt - I think Troy is just straight-up a solid football program. Another conference will eventually take them out of their state of purgatory. If you ask me, they'd do better in the SEC than Mississippi State or Vanderbilt do most years. Several of the other programs are much improved but they were so bad to begin with, that it isn't saying much.
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