I thought I’d take aim at Bruce Feldman’s column on ESPN.com that he publishes weekly, where he ranks the power conferences. Basically what Feldman does is evaluate the performance of a conference’s teams in any given weekend and then assign point values, plus or minus, and then tally those points to assess how a conference fared in that weekend.

What I can’t help but notice is the means he is going to to justify keeping the SEC on top for yet another week. While, I don’t disagree that the SEC is one of the tougher conferences in the country, I felt like this was an especially dull weekend in the SEC. What with Auburn playing Buffalo, Florida playing Kentucky and Georgia playing Colorado. However, Feldman still finds a way to give the SEC 1 point because LSU destroyed Arizona, a team that gave USC a little bit of a tough time this past weekend. So the SEC gets a point for a game it didn’t even play? Meanwhile, he gives Ohio State 1 point for beating Penn State in the slop. But what he actually writes is even more ludicrous: “Ohio State shuts down a ranked team, staying unbeaten (+1)”. Yeah no big deal.

I think it’s time that the Big Ten finally got whats due them. By season’s end, they will have 2 teams in the BCS bowl contention and probably a team in the national championship game. Forget that Wisconsin is as tough as unranked draw as there is, especially at Camp Randall, and Michigan State is one complete and utter fold job from being the conferences’ 4th undefeated team.

Stay tuned to next week’s column when Feldman the SEC receives two points for looking snazzy in their uniforms.

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