Measuring Conference Strength - Overall

So, given the conference offense and defense strengths, I have ranked the conferences (as of October 30, 2010) by taking the average conference offensive productivity and subtracted the average conference defense productivity and come up with the average conference overall productivity. Since the percentage differences do not make sense to add together, I have just ranked them from highest to lowest.

The biggest surprise (to me) is that the Big East is actually better overall than the SEC, Pac 10 or Big 12. This is mainly due to the Big East's lead in defense relative to all the other conferences. I suspect that this will decline as the season progresses, but it may not.

		Overall
1		Big 10
2		Independent
3		Big East
4		SEC
5		Pac 10
6		Big 12
7		ACC
8		WAC
9		Mountain West
10		CUSA
11		Sun Belt
12		Mid American