People like look at relative strength of schedule of teams to help their argument of which team is better than another. However as far as college football is concerned, that is a bit of a flawed metric. Every power league in Division 1 play 8 league games, leaving 4 non-conference games to schedule according to their desires for a quick paycheck, an easy victory, a regional rivalry or what have you. Because of the goal of bowl eligibility is paramount in today's college football landscape, most teams will try to schedule themselves games in non-conference so that they will be able to win. This gives those leagues a good amount of 8-9 win teams based largely upon favorable scheduling.
Contrast this with the Pac-10 which plays a full league schedule so that if one team is terrible (i.e. Washingon) it impacts the schedule strength of all of the league members, not just some of them. Further, because the 9 game league schedule only gives teams 3 non-league games to chose from, even if the Pac-10 wins their non-league games at exactly the same rate as the other conferences, the other power leagues will have a higher total winning percentage due to their 4 non-conference games accounting for a larger percentage of their total schedule.
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