Reschke, your first sentence summed it up theres no way to "compare" totally different playing styles, maybe if the SEC and PAC12 (next Year) could get more non-confernce games it would give each conference more chances at playing the teams and leaning more of each conferences style's of play, but we know that wont happen , you can call the PAC10 "weak" that's fine it's your opinion, just like i have mine for the SEC , conference teams play each other harder than non-conference teams, they know each others offense and defensive setup's, i don't care what conference it is the ACC, SEC, Big10 ,PAC10.
To drop Alabama or Auburn into the PAC10 and say they would walk away with it is absurd even tho it's just a hypothetical situation,i mean i could say the same thing but i wouldn't you just can't compare conferences, Stanford and USC were Dominated by Oregon, Stanford had Oregon 31 to 24 at halftime, Oregon played hard and put 28 unanswered points up on Stanford and won 52 to 31, Oregon played USC from the middle of the second quarter they were starting to take control and won 53-32, the Cal game was a sloppy game on both side, the only play that worked for Cal in slowing down the Duck offense was the "cramp" plays
The national game will be fun to watch, who ever wins its going to be there first time so hats off to both schools, now for the next 3 weeks we can hear all the sportscasters over analyze all the bowl games