Pac-10, Bowls, and CFB Live

The Pac-10 has added two games to the butt end of our bowl tie-ins: the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl in Honolulu (#6 Pac-10 vs. WAC) and the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego (#7 Pac-10 vs. MWC). The #6 and #7 Pac-10 spot will alternate in the following year.

While this may barely register as a boost to an already putrid program of runner-up bowls, this is good news. It’s two great bowl locations that will be used in the upcoming seasons. Yesterday, Kirk Herbstreit made the following prediction on ESPN’s inaugural College Football Live show:

Every year it’s the SEC [that] is the best conference in football. I think this year you will see the Pac-10 close the gap on the SEC. I think there may be 7 teams in this conference that will hover right around that top 25, some around up in the the 10 obviously. That is a deep conference this year and they’re going to close the gap on the SEC. [/JY]

This should be an exciting season coming up with a bunch of strong teams in the conference and the championship up in the air.