Which conferences are the best in college football this year?

Over at SportsBlog, Brian advances the argument that the SEC is the best. As one data point, he points out that the Pac-10 are beating each other up and therefore giving each other losses.

That is not really compelling data. I looked at the interconference records so far, starting from Rich Tellshow’s data, and then eliminating Div I-AA results. Here’s what I see:

	Wins	Losses	%
Big Twelve	28	12	0.700
Big10	28	14	0.667
Pac Ten	21	12	0.636
Big East	18	11	0.621
Conference USA	16	13	0.552
Southeastern	16	13	0.552
Atlantic Coast	11	9	0.550
Mountain West	10	14	0.417
Independents	8	14	0.364
Mid-American	11	22	0.333
Western Athletic	6	20	0.231
Sun Belt	2	21	0.087

The evidence suggests that the Big12, Pac10, Big10 are doing fine this year, while the SEC is just an average performer.