In light of the Pac-10 finally getting two more teams in the top 25 of the BCS standings, I asked Pete Carroll whether he thinks the conference gets the credit it deserves on a national basis.

He claimed to have no clue about conference power rankings, but he did say this:

“It seems like the SEC gets a lot of credit for stuff. All I know is when we play them, we do pretty well against those guys. That’s the only way I can compare.”

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