Best Conference

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From the collegefootballnews.com 3 year program rankings, they used the same criteria to Rank the conferences.

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/2005/Preview/Program_Rankings_ConferenceCategories.htm

What's interesting is that the Top 3 conferences are bunched together, and then there is a pretty good drop off after that.  I'm sure the dog teams (MSU, Vandy, KY) are costing us the top spot, although you got to believe Vandy is at least helping the Graduation Rate Rankings.  The mediocre seasons last year by Ole Miss, Ark, and SC didn't help much either.

Conference Ranks (Overall)
1 ACC 52.06
2 Big Ten 51.29
3 SEC 51.10
4 Big 12 48.08
5 Pac 10 47.66
6 Big East 41.14
7 Mwest 37.24
8 WAC 30.88
9 Ind 28.59
10 CUSA 27.89
11 MAC 27.78
12 Sun Belt 19.16

Attendance
1 SEC 7.37
2 Big Ten 6.87
3 Big 12 5.64
4 ACC 5.32
5 Pac 10 5.21
6 Ind 4.05
7 Big East 3.61
8 Mwest 3.38
9 CUSA 2.44
10 WAC 2.26
11 MAC 1.65
12 Sun Belt 1.51

Graduation
1 Ind 7.05
2 ACC 6.13
3 Big Ten 5.92
4 MAC 5.66
5 Pac 10 5.65
6 CUSA 5.65
7 Big East 5.14
8 Big 12 5.11
9 SEC 4.90
10 Mwest 4.63
11 WAC 4.60
12 Sun Belt 4.23

Draft Score
1 Big Ten 5.23
2 SEC 5.08
3 Pac 10 4.65
4 ACC 4.46
5 Big 12 3.83
6 Big East 2.94
7 Ind 2.13
8 Mwest 1.78
9 CUSA 1.38
10 WAC 1.28
11 Sun Belt 0.92
12 MAC 0.71

Total D-I Wins
1 ACC 20.92
2 Big Ten 20.27
3 Big 12 20.08
4 SEC 19.83
5 Pac 10 19.60
6 Big East 19.00
7 Mwest 17.67
8 WAC 16.89
9 MAC 13.83
10 CUSA 13.50
11 Sun Belt 11.83
12 Ind 11.50

Quality Wins
1 ACC 9.33
2 SEC 7.83
3 Big Ten 7.82
4 Pac 10 7.50
5 Big 12 7.42
6 Big East 5.75
7 Mwest 5.11
8 Ind 3.75
9 CUSA 2.92
10 WAC 2.89
11 MAC 2.67
12 Sun Belt 0.67

Elite Wins
1 SEC 1.67
2 Big 12 1.25
3 ACC 1.04
4 Pac 10 0.80
5 Big Ten 0.73
6 Ind 0.63
7 MAC 0.50
8 Big East 0.38
9 CUSA 0.25
10 Mwest 0.11
11 WAC 0.11
12 Sun Belt 0.00

Bad Losses
1 Ind 0.04
2 Big 12 0.25
3 ACC 0.38
4 Big Ten 0.55
5 Mwest 0.56
6 SEC 0.63
7 Pac 10 0.75
8 Big East 1.31
9 MAC 2.13
10 WAC 2.44
11 CUSA 2.79
12 Sun Belt 4.83

Improvement from 2004 The lower the number, the better
1 Big East -8.88
2 Mwest -4.11
3 Ind -2.25
4 Big 12 -2.00
5 MAC -0.08
6 ACC 0.00
7 Sun Belt 0.17
8 Big Ten 0.64
9 CUSA 0.67
10 Pac 10 1.80
11 SEC 3.58
12 WAC 4.33