re: Why do SEC fans think the Pac 10 is weak?

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In all seriousness though, as you probably already know, Mark Twain wrote one time something about lies, damned lies , and statistics. The point being of course that you can 'gerrymander' statistics to justify just about any position in a debate.

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I don't think that's true. I think statistical "lying" can be detected and exposed.

But the perception is why I listed all the results including the record of each team within its own conference. It's objectively true that the record is 10-7 Pac 10. It's objectively true that the series involved more SEC teams with winning conference records (11) than Pac 10 teams of that type (7). It's objectively true that there were 9 games such that the SEC team had a better record in its own conference than the Pac 10 team did vs. 5 games where the reverse is true. It's objectively true that there were three games where the teams had identical conference records and the Pac 10 won all three of those games. So on and so forth.

Can you see any possible way to interpret the results, while taking how well each team did within its own conference into account, as suggesting SEC superiority?