SI.com senior college football writer Stewart Mandel has devised a way to take this whole "which conference is the best" debate to a place with more positive results then we're used to. Essentially, charitable donations to a worthwhile organization will be associated with a college football conference to "keep score".
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Over the next six weeks, you, the readers, have the opportunity to make a donation of $10 or more to specific classroom projects in your favorite conference's region. If you're a Maryland Terrapins fan, you might choose to fight childhood obesity among at-risk children at a classroom in Baltimore. If you're a USC or UCLA fan, you might help an inner-city 10th-grade teacher to afford a set of Greek mythology books for her students. The list goes on and on.
Just go to DonorsChoose.org/sishowdown, click on the link to your favorite conference (all 11 FBS conferences and independents are represented) and you'll see a list of projects from that league's states. Click on any of those links and you'll get a detailed description of the project, straight from that classroom's teacher. As befitting a sports-related audience, DonorsChoose.org has included a healthy dose of physical-education themed projects.
DonorsChoose.org will be keeping a running tally of the donations raised by each conference's fans, and we'll declare a winner in the Sept. 24 Mailbag -- right around the time league play heats up in each conference.
The current rankings?
You can find them here.
The Big Ten is currently leading, followed by the SEC.
Incidentally, the "Big Ten" has chipped in almost $7,000 thus far. The Big XII (a so-called Big Dog), has dropped a whopping $721 and currently sits in 8th place.
Strong. Classy. These are the cornerstones of Great Plains athletics.
Personally, I've already contributed $100 to the "Todd Boeckman Deep-ball Assistance Fund". I suggest you do the same!
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