This week's college football picks: First Annual Football Conference Rankings

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This one comes up every autumn, and can be debated weekly.

This week, as a public service to all, Greatest Pro Bowls of all time, and other stuff^TM sets the record straight.

Here are the First Annual Football Conference Rankings:

1. National Football Conference
2. American Football Conference
3. SEC
4. Big 12
5. Big Ten
6. Mountain West
7. Pac-10
6. Big East
7. ACC
8. WAC
9. Conference USA
10. MAC
11. Sun Belt

You may notice that the Mountain West is ranked pretty high. Respect.

Let's pick some college football winners ...

No. 2 Wisconsin-Whitewater over Wisconsin-La Crosse
No. 4 Missouri over Nebraska
No. 9 USC over No. 23 Oregon
No. 19 Vanderbilt over No. 13 Auburn
No. 14 Ohio State over No. 18 Wisconsin

Upset pick of the week: Well, Vandy over Auburn would count as an upset, but let's go with ... North Carolina over No. 24 Connecticut

And our totally random college football pick of the week: MIT over UMass-Dartmouth in a big one in the Northeast Football Conference Boyd Division. This would be an upset of sorts, since the Cosairs have won eight consecutive games in this series. Just a hunch here that the Engineers pull this one off. Just a hunch.

Last week's record: 5-2 (nailed both the upset and totally-random picks of the week! That's huge!)

Overall record: 25-10