Since everyone knows that the media never engages in stereotypes of the conferences and actually tells it like it is, I thought I’d provide a round up of all the stories extolling the Pac-10 for its toughness as two of its teams out-slugged  and out-physicaled teams from the Big Ten and SEC. 

You see, when the Pac-10 loses one of these type of games, it is always pigeon-holed as being ’soft’.  Conversely, when the SEC wins, it is because it is tough and, of course, fast.  The Big Ten is (naturally) slow, but it also gets to be labeled ‘physical’ when it wins an interconference game.  Also, when the Pac-10 loses an interconference game, it is because the conference has issues.  When the SEC loses one of these games, well, there’s really nothing to say.

Here are all the links to those stories about how UCLA beat Tennessee because it was tougher and faster and how USC beat Ohio State because it was more physical and how the both wins were a sign of the Pac-10’s strength as a conference:

 Hope you enjoyed them.