Listen to the pundits and the SEC is clearly the best conference in America. Yet the bottom 6 teams in the SEC have a TOTAL of 6 conference wins...almost half of the conference has an average of ONE win. Yet they are considered the strongest because the top of the conference is so highly ranked ([partly because they're records are padded by playing the puds in the bottom of their conference). The top 9 teams in the Big 12 have TWO loses out of conference....TWO. Everyone clamors to add Florida State or Clemson or ND...the reality is that we would be much better off to add 4 "Schools of the Blind" to the conference and play only 8 conference games. Much like the SEC, we'd routinely have 4-6 top ranked teams each year giving us a much better chance at landing multiple schools in the new "playoff"...which is clearly the holy grail. Unlike basketball where you want to play the best to prepare your team for the tourney, the goal in football is simply to land 2 teams in the playoff ($$$$$$)....after that who really cares? I love the round robin, but it's not conducive to landing multiple teams in the new playoff. It's just too demanding week in and week out.
