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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5559741, member: 1969"]
After the first week of games the argument can be made that the ACC had the top week when we look at performance, and mostly margin at this point because everybody mostly starts soft.

[B]My rankings would be #1 ACC, #2.  SEC, #3 Big Ten, although the three are all tight in the margin game... I'll give the tie-break to ACC because of doing well in a small sample of head to head, and SEC struggling in those.    There is a gap then,  B12 is in 4th and BE is 5th.  Tables will be posted tomorrow.[/B]

- From a margin perspective and impact on NET, right now the ACC has the best margin at 25.9 per game.  (SEC is at 23.7 and Big 10 is at 23.5).   That being said the SEC and BIG played tougher schedules so far, so when you consider that they are all about equal.  I use a ratio of margin to difficulty to try to equate sched's and have SEC at 10.2%, ACC at 10.1%, and BIG at 9.8%... then there is a gap with B12 coming in at 8.0% and BE at 6.6%.

ACC has played the softest schedule to date.

- In a very small sample. ACC is also doing well in head to head between the 5 conferences (I also add Q1+Q2 games against other conferences.

ACC is 3-1
B12 4-2, B10 2-2, SEC 2-5, BE 1-4.

Its very early, but SEC won over 75% of head to head matchups last year, so 2-5 is indicative that they will not have that same level of historic year again in OOC.   To be fair the SEC has played a lot of head to head road games, which most others have avoided.

I'd say after this week (and 3-4 games per team) trends are going to form that may well hold.
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