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With the New Year brings clarity. Not only has the excruciating bowl season come to an end, allowing us to focus solely on college hoops, with the occasional Patriots hatefest NFL football game mixed in here or there, but with the start of ’08 comes conference play for the BCS leagues. This means no more North Floridas or Sacramento States or Prairie View A & Ms on the schedule. No, this means we will be treated to a bevy of decent matchups on a nightly basis, providing a meaningful way to discern between squads, rather than wild guessing, or even

Some talk that Oregon State is the worst BCS team ever.. we'll see below in my monthly 73-team BCS Power Ranking. This follows u

 

1. UNC 14-0 (ACC)(1)

Following last week's High-Major & Mid-Major rankings, here is the complete 73 team BCS Power Ranking. Obviously a lot of potential NCAA Tournament teams in here, perhaps everyone in the Top 50 has a chance. The SEC is off to a very odd start, no one playing Top 10 basketball, yet its worst teams seem substantially better than the worst of the other leagues.

ACC (72-19, 1st RPI)

Atlantic 10 (67-40, 5th RPI)

Big East (83-24, 4th RPI)

Big 12 (63-25, 3rd RPI

Pac-10 (56-15, 2nd RPI)

Other (Big Ten, Horizon, MVC, SEC)

CHN is doing BCS all-conference teams in December?  Perhaps it is a tad early, but it should be interesting comparing the names on the All-November to the names that ultimately make the grade come March.  As all fans know, not all non-conference schedules are made the same, so these lists are weighted more heavily towards the top players on the top teams in the nation who have played the top competition - the top of the tops.  We’ll start things off with the Atlantic Coast Conference:

Yes - The ACC needs better competition

No - The ACC is better, but there's still good games

ACC

Big Ten

CHN staffers predict the BCS conference champions.  Kansas is the lone unanimous pick amongst the 8 writers represented here. Other consensus picks (at least 6 votes) include UNC, UCLA, and Tennessee.

Clemson

Duke

Georgia Tech

Maryland

North Carolina

NC State

Virginia

Other (BC, FSU, Miami, VT, Wake)

This is the first of a new series ranking the Top 25 players from the Major Conferences. After the BCS conferences are through, I'll be moving on to the Top 10 from the 2nd tier leagues.

Up first is the ACC, which is loaded with talent. I've already finished the Big Ten ranking and the disparity between these two leagues is pretty amazing.

Feel free to disagree with my selections.. there's certainly many different ways this ranking could go.

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