Phil Steele - Conference Rankings

[jdennis82]

The article was part of ESPN insider

http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9380987/sec-no-1-ranking-nation-top-conferences-college-football

Detroitnews.com felt it OK to post the list, so here it is:

1. SEC

2. Big 12

3. Pac-12

T4. Big Ten

T4. ACC

6. American Athletic (former Big East)

7. Mountain West

8. Independents (While not a conference, Steele reasons that Notre Dame, BYU and Navy warrant recognition.)

9. Conference USA

10. MAC

11. Sun Belt

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130617/SPORTS0203/306170087#ixzz2WZ2S9oet

Perception or reality, who cares? It feels good not to be at the bottom.

[wardly]

The article was part of ESPN insider

http://insider.espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9380987/sec-no-1-ranking-nation-top-conferences-college-football

Detroitnews.com felt it OK to post the list, so here it is:

1. SEC

2. Big 12

3. Pac-12

T4. Big Ten

T4. ACC

6. American Athletic (former Big East)

7. Mountain West

8. Independents (While not a conference, Steele reasons that Notre Dame, BYU and Navy warrant recognition.)

9. Conference USA

10. MAC

11. Sun Belt

From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130617/SPORTS0203/306170087#ixzz2WZ2S9oet

Perception or reality, who cares? It feels good not to be at the bottom.

I assume you are refering to our new conference,not our team.

[Travis]

How is it that independents are on a ranking of the conferences when, in its very essense, implies they are not a conference?

Why on earth would they be grouped together in some unwritten alliance?

[Eastwood Eagle]

How is it that independents are on a ranking of the conferences when, in its very essense, implies they are not a conference?

Same way non-denominational churches are referred to as a denomination.