... for being USC and the Nine Dwarfs, as USC dominated the conference for most of the last decade.

This reputation penalized USC, as the Trojans were kept out of the BCS title game for dropping a game in conference to a Stanford or Oregon State.

The conference's poor record versus the neighboring Mountain West Conference over the last few years has only helped to create an image of the Pac-10 as being the West Coast version of the ACC.

Of course, the decisions of the Pac-10 establishment have helped create this image as well by its adherence to the damaging nine-game conference season rule, a rule that all the Pac-10 coaches have repeatedly asked to be removed.

The coaches understand that playing a nine-game conference schedul...

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