Favorite College Football Team By Conference

[RINO Tom]

Obviously most people just have one (maybe two?) favorite team(s), but what team from each BCS conference do you like the most in college football?  It's a very slow day at the bank...

ACC
Boston College
Clemson
Duke
Florida State
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Miami (FL)
North Carolina
NC State
Pitt
Syracuse
Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest

Big Ten
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Maryland
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue
Rutgers
Wisconsin

Big XII
Baylor
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
TCU
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia

Pac-12
Arizona
Arizona State
Cal
Colorado
Oregon
Oregon State
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Utah
Washington
Washington State

SEC
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
LSU
Missouri
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas A&M
Texas Tech

My picks:

ACC: Clemson (always liked the sound of the campus and its association with "Upstate")
Big Ten: Illinois, obviously
Big XII: Kansas (LOVED their campus)
Pac-12: Colorado (as an Illinois fan, I can empathize with CU fans feeling like a bunch of transplants who cheer for other NCAA teams dilute their market share in Denver and the surrounding area)
SEC: Tennessee (always liked how they somewhat quietly have one of the best traditions in college football)

[RINO Tom]

PAC 12: This conference is just so meh. I guess Colorado maybe. I don't hate these schools, but I just have no reason to like them either.

You're seriously missing out. The PAC12 has such a rich history of CFB and the current dynamics of the conference are fascinating, with USC still recovering from sanctions and multiple self-imposed hiring miscues; Washington is finally returning to national prominence after two decades in the wilderness; Wazzu with certifiable crazyman Mike Leach, the rising and unpredictable Arizona schools, Oregon's fight to stay relevant in a recruiting wasteland, Cal and UCLA perpetually underperforming, plus newcomers Utah and Colorado, one of which is a 90s powerhouse with an excellent coach, while the other is a perpetual overperforming minor conference team.

Oh and Oregon State exists too, I suppose.

I think if you live in the Midwest or east, it's just so hard to get interested ... from our perspective, the games are on at such strange times, we rarely play those teams and we don't really know that much about the conference.  I'm sure it is just as exciting to people in the West as the Big Ten is in the Midwest or the SEC is in the South, but it almost seems like a separate universe sometimes, LOL.  Plus, whether academically or in football/basketball, the Pac-12 always seems SO top heavy with such a pathetic bottom.

[RINO Tom]

PAC 12: This conference is just so meh. I guess Colorado maybe. I don't hate these schools, but I just have no reason to like them either.

You're seriously missing out. The PAC12 has such a rich history of CFB and the current dynamics of the conference are fascinating, with USC still recovering from sanctions and multiple self-imposed hiring miscues; Washington is finally returning to national prominence after two decades in the wilderness; Wazzu with certifiable crazyman Mike Leach, the rising and unpredictable Arizona schools, Oregon's fight to stay relevant in a recruiting wasteland, Cal and UCLA perpetually underperforming, plus newcomers Utah and Colorado, one of which is a 90s powerhouse with an excellent coach, while the other is a perpetual overperforming minor conference team.

Oh and Oregon State exists too, I suppose.

I think if you live in the Midwest or east, it's just so hard to get interested ... from our perspective, the games are on at such strange times, we rarely play those teams and we don't really know that much about the conference.  I'm sure it is just as exciting to people in the West as the Big Ten is in the Midwest or the SEC is in the South, but it almost seems like a separate universe sometimes, LOL.  Plus, whether academically or in football/basketball, the Pac-12 always seems SO top heavy with such a pathetic bottom.

It's much much easier to argue the opposite. PAC-12 football has too much parity, not too little. Especially when you compare to the SEC (Bama, one or two good-ish teams, everyone else is a garbage fire with no hope in sight). And as for a "pathetic bottom," the gulf between best and worst teams in the PAC12 is nowhere near as bad as difference between the OSU/Penn States and the Illinois/Rutgers tier in the Big 10; only one team in the PAC-12 right now has a losing record and no team looks unbeatable. While that parity wasn't really there last year, that was the exception and not the norm; look at the 2013-15 PAC standings. Plus, the worst teams in the PAC-12 right now (the Arizonas, Oregon, UCLA) were among the best ones four years ago and vice versa (hi Wazzu and Utah) and nothing about the current crop of best teams makes me think that this group will still be on top four years from now.

The only real problem with the PAC-12 is the time their games air. This is seen by their coaches as a problem, its just not one the networks care about.

I was thinking more historically.  Even schools like Illinois and Minnesota actually have fairly rich football traditions, even if they have sucked forever.  Additionally, basketball (with UCLA, Arizona and Utah really being the only schools with any respectable tradition compared to Indiana, Illinois, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Michigan, Maryland, etc. in the Big Ten) and academics (along with heavyweights USC, UCLA, Cal and Stanford, you have some of the lowest ranked BCS schools in the country) are more lopsided.  I have nothing against the Pac-12 and actually kind of like a few of the teams, I'm just saying there is a perception that most people out there don't care as much as fans in the Midwest and South, so it doesn't seem very ... intense.  Lots of smaller fan bases (Stanford, Oregon State, Utah, etc.) and teams in areas where the interest is perceived to be lower (Los Angeles, Bay Area, Colorado).

[RINO Tom]

Have you ever watched a game from the conference of champions? Have you ever stood atop a mountain And shouted out to the millions of animals that accomplished the feat before you? Have you spent a night sleeping in the desert? Have you ever seen an iguana build up enough courage to fend off a rattlesnake?

You clearly know nothing about the best conference in the world if you don't take the time to watch. 1 AM end time inconvenient? Bahaha

I don't even know where I am by this point on Saturday night.