TUCFC: 2012 End of the Year

Baylor ends the season with a convincing 49-26 win over UCLA to keep a hold on the UCFC title. They will open 2013 at home against Buffalo. If the title stays within the Big 12 it will be another season of crazy high scoring games. Buffalo, SMU, and Louisiana-Monroe will be the only non Big 12 teams that get a shot at the title before Baylor moves into conference play.

But that is next year this is supposed to be a wrap up to the 2012 college football season. It was capped off in usual fashion with an SEC team, or Alabama embarrassing a wanna be rival, and so we are all left to ponder just how much better the SEC is than everyone else.

I always find it fun to see how the conferences did in bowl games. Here are the conferences ranked by winning percentage.

WAC 2-0
Conference USA 4-1
SEC 6-3
ACC 4-2
Big East 3-2
Pac 12 4-4
Sun Belt 2-2
Big 12 4-5
Big 10 2-5
MAC 2-5
Mountain West 1-4

We all knew the Big 10 was down, but there was a lot of talk about the MAC this year and I think what we learned is that in the Midwest they no longer play competitive football.  Of course I expect Urban Meyer to change that. 

It makes me sad that Louisiana Tech didn't get a shot at a bowl and maybe the WAC could have gone 3-0.  That would have been a great ending for the conference. 

Still people wanted to say the SEC was down.  In the end they had the best bowl record of any of the BCS conferences. 

Of course next year we start with a four team playoff so that should be interesting.  I'll be curious to see how long we go before that expands to eight teams.

Here is the final top 20 in the TUCFC Power Ratings after all the bowl games.  I was happy to see that Alabama made it to the top of the rankings, and Notre Dame deserves to be number two no matter what we saw in the BCS championship game.  They only lost one game and they beat three other teams in this top 20.  The big win for Louisville brings them into the top 20.

Rank	Team	Record	WP	WDiffP	LP	LDiffP	Power
1	Alabama	13-1	1,820.063	1,473.150	15.906	28.875	3,248.431
2	Notre Dame	12-1	1,901.063	1,292.025	8.344	37.563	3,147.181
3	Stanford	12-2	2,164.094	1,393.263	122.000	296.813	3,138.544
4	Oregon	12-1	1,815.656	1,409.225	35.281	78.813	3,110.788
5	Florida	11-2	1,633.438	1,229.900	94.469	177.625	2,591.244
6	Texas A&M	11-2	1,353.125	1,168.938	45.000	73.875	2,403.188
7	Georgia	12-2	1,346.750	1,109.213	23.250	78.938	2,353.775
8	Kansas State	11-2	1,595.594	1,226.013	130.375	377.750	2,313.481
9	Ohio State	12-0	1,370.938	927.200	0.000	0.000	2,298.138
10	Oklahoma	10-3	1,397.313	1,062.138	57.969	184.313	2,217.169
11	South Carolina	11-2	1,297.875	997.363	44.000	100.875	2,150.363
12	Louisiana State	10-3	1,179.625	910.238	53.125	101.188	1,935.550
13	Clemson	11-2	1,073.219	855.613	55.094	145.875	1,727.863
14	Florida State	12-2	1,130.219	1,010.425	156.594	349.125	1,634.925
15	Nebraska	10-4	1,304.125	885.100	204.688	498.625	1,485.913
16	Oregon State	9-4	1,164.469	854.725	240.375	610.875	1,167.944
17	San Jose State	11-2	658.906	639.550	80.313	157.438	1,060.706
18	Michigan	8-5	697.125	586.988	83.813	237.125	963.175
19	Texas	9-4	1,175.813	893.037	287.750	827.688	953.412
20	Louisville	11-2	1,111.031	782.825	326.344	637.438	930.075