Pac-10 better than the AFC and NFC West

Everyone had the PAC-10 written off as having a down year with USC only being the only real true power in the West. And even though the Trojans were respected, they were somewhat looked down upon for playing bad competition in the conference.

Well, the PAC-10 pretty much showed all the pollsters, experts, coaches and ESPN analysts that they were dead wrong in determining the toughness of the conference after they went 5-0 in Bowl Games this year.

No other conference can say that, and if you're the Big Ten and your champion just got trounced by the Trojans, you've got to be a little embarrassed. You'd better be hoping that Ohio State doesn't pull their normal Bowl Game choke job against Texas.

The Big East and ACC Champions are currently facing off in the Orange Bowl to a half full stadium, and while I'm watching the game, I really can't say that I blame football fans for not being enthralled at the prospect of Virginia Tech and Cincinnati. Might as well just go to the Winter Classic instead -- which was an awesome spectacle, again.

I think this selling of the PAC-10 short always happens because (a) fans on the west coast aren't as crazy as the SEC and east coast fans, meaning that there's a perceived lack of interest... which is stupid, west coast fans just don't stab one another over football games but it leads to (b) the major media centers, which are located on the east coast, focusing their coverage on other teams.

Obviously USC and UCLA get their fair share of coverage because they're in LA, but the rest of the teams are really out on an island. Unless you're in the state of a respective team, your don't really follow them as closely.

Sure they'll get ranked, sure they'll still get on TV but people don't go as gaga over them as they would over an east coast team.

And with that said, I'm glad people are kind of ignoring Washington and Washington State.