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In college sports, is it easier to see how good a conference is in basketball rather than in football?
In basketball, to make the tournament your conference needs to be strong.
In football, the top teams play to make the five BCS bowls and after that, bowls are just for die hards.
So in basketball, coaches play up how good the conference is. In football they play up how well their own team is.
Even in the argument about best conferences you hear football fans talking about how many championships they've won, not how many teams play in the post season. They only focus on the top teams.
In basketball, out of conference scheduling makes a big difference. And because they play so many conference games, you don't want a weak conference to pull down your RPI.
Is it easier to recognize better basketball conferences than football conferences?
4 Answers
- droid327Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yeah I think its easier in B-ball, just because you play so many more games. There's only 14 games in college football, which means one or two fluke games can really skew a team's standings all year. Look at USC, top ranked defense and an offense that piles it on, but one fluke game and they're down to 5-6th place....
Plus basketball recruiting is a lot less competitive. Rosters for basketball teams are only like 1/4 those of football teams, so there's more talent to spread around to different schools, making conferences a little less imbalanced between the big recruiters and the weaker schools like they are in FBS football, which makes the conferences as a whole a little more easier to judge.
And of course you have a playoff in NCAA basketball, so you dont get the griping about rankings and stuff, you have nothing to complain about when your teams decide it on the court.
- MaestroLv 51 decade ago
I don´t really think so. In a way, it should actually be easier to see how good a college football conference is because individual teams compete nationally. I´m from the Big 12 myself, and this year the Big 12 is amazing. On the national level, several teams within the conference are among the very best. Obviously then, the Big 12 Conference is quite strong (this year) in relation to other conferences.
- 1 decade ago
I think is easier to recognize basketball because they have tournaments and football only has bowl games.
