go to law school.
As far as my so-called fluffy concerns, I used a thing called math, you know, statistical modeling. Unfortunately they don't teach that in law school though.
You addressing fluffy concerns is simply saying, "throw out USC, they don't count for some reason that I won't even address. So that is the best counter-argument I can come up with. I won't counter with any other well reasoned statistics because I can't find anything to back up my claim that the PAC 12 is awful in football, so I will just start throwing out ad hominems and strawmen. That's my go to move anyway."
OK, I promise this time, this is my last post on the subject. Have a great one brother.