There are a few things I’m sure of when it comes to the 2017 college football season.

One is that Baylor will not be playing for a national championship. Another is that Iowa State busted out the ugliest uniforms I’ve ever seen Saturday. I’m also pretty sure Cole Hedlund had more people in his social media mentions than I did Saturday.

But what I’m not sure of is who in the world has the best conference this year.

I mean, I shouldn’t know that yet. You shouldn’t, either. It’s Week 2. It’s a bad thing if there’s a consensus about a superior conference after the second week of the season. Considering the vast majority of first two weeks were non-conference games, season-long opinions could’ve been formed by now.

So instead of arguing why one conference is superior, I decided to break down how crazy this mess is and show why each Power 5 conference can claim it’s college football’s best.

Let the arguing begin:

1. SEC

Because it just means more. Duh.

But really, the SEC has a lot working in its favor early on. Thanks to a late push by Texas A&M on Saturday — unlike last week at UCLA — the SEC has zero embarrassing losses to date in 2017. What constitutes an embarrassing loss, you ask? Well, let’s just call it any loss to a Group of 5 or FCS team.

The B1G (Rutgers) can’t say that, nor can the ACC (Syracuse), the Pac-12 (Arizona) or the Big 12 (Baylor and Baylor again). In terms of breaking down a conference from top to bottom, the SEC has the most depth.

Besides, the SEC still has the best team in the country and the most teams in the Associated Press top 25 (four of those five teams in action won Saturday). That’s definitely worth something.

And after the ACC claimed the conference supremacy title last year, what’s the SEC’s record against it? The SEC is 3-1 vs. the ACC.

Who’s the best conference now?

2. ACC

Not so fast, SEC.

The SEC might have a 3-1 advantage in that department for the time being, but look a little closer at the ACC’s track record. Against Power 5 teams, the ACC has five victories on the year. That’s just as many as the SEC has.

And after Clemson stymied Auburn — wait, Jarrett Stidham just got sacked again — that all but cancels out Alabama’s win against Florida State as it relates to conference supremacy.

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There’s also a decent chance that five ACC teams are ranked inside the top 16 of the AP poll on Sunday. No other conference will be able to make that claim.

The conference supremacy title is the ACC’s until someone takes it away. After all, the ACC was the conference that dominated bowl season and won the national title last year. For now, nobody has done enough to supplant the ACC. Not even the big, bad SEC.

3. B1G

The AP poll numbers speak for themselves. Four B1G teams in the top nine were unmatched by any Power 5 conference when the first in-season AP poll was released on Tuesday. Three of those four teams won by three scores Saturday. Think that the B1G took a major hit with Ohio State losing to Oklahoma?

Consider this. Against other Power 5 teams (including BYU and Notre Dame), no conference has more victories than the B1G so far:

  • Big 12: 2
  • Pac-12: 5
  • ACC: 5
  • SEC: 5
  • B1G: 6

Here’s another thing. A total of 11 B1G teams already faced Power 5 teams in non-conference play. That’s more than the ACC (10), Big 12 (5), Pac-12 (6) and SEC (9). We all know how difficult it is to evaluate conference strength once conference play starts. The B1G is the most proven conference to date, and so far, it proved that could hang with any other conference.

Shoot, even Purdue and Rutgers had impressive showings against the likes of Louisville and Washington, respectively. For all the talk about how bad the bottom part of the B1G is, that argument lost some steam.

Couple that with the B1G’s presence in the top 10 and it’s clear who has the best conference.

4. Pac-12

Take a look at a breakdown of the Pac-12’s record vs. other Power 5 conferences (including BYU) and I bet it’ll surprise you:

  • vs. B1G: 2-1
  • vs. SEC: 1-0
  • vs. Big 12: 0-0
  • vs. ACC: 1-0
  • vs. BYU: 1-0

Who was that lone loss to a Power 5 team? It was Oregon State losing to Minnesota. That, of course, is how the Pac-12 is always measured, right? No, it sure isn’t.

The Pac-12 will be measured on the strength of teams like USC, Washington and Stanford, all of whom have looked solid so far.

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There’s also UCLA, which pulled off the victory of opening weekend when it roared back against Texas A&M. And it was Oregon who lit up Nebraska early and avenged last year’s loss in Lincoln. And let’s not forget about Cal going to UNC and spoiling the Tarheels’ opener.

No conference has better quarterbacks than the Pac-12, so naturally, no conference has better teams than the Pac-12. While the rest of the world was sleeping, the Pac-12 was busy staking its claim as college football’s new power conference.

5. Big 12

Nobody, and I mean nobody, has a more impressive win to date than Oklahoma. The Sooners went into a packed house in Columbus and dominated the No. 2 team in the country. Score a big one for the Big 12.

Yes, Baylor has been awful, but let’s look at the teams that will actually be evaluated come Playoff time. Oklahoma State and Kansas State outscored their first two opponents 103-31 and 110-26, respectively.

And who was it that went into SEC territory and dominated? That’s right. TCU did that to Arkansas on Saturday. Any jokes about Big 12 defenses should’ve disappeared when the Frogs allowed a preseason All-SEC quarterback to complete nine (!) passes.

Call me crazy, but that sounds like a narrative that needs changing.

So does the narrative that the Big 12 will get left out of the Playoff again. Has everyone forgotten that there’s a Big 12 Championship this year? When Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are both ranked in the top five and playing for a national title, many will be wondering why they doubted the Big 12 was the best conference in college football.

They probably just spent too much time watching Baylor.