Thanks everyone for the info. I consider myself pretty well-versed in other sports (especially baseball, and to a somewhat lesser degree pro football, college basketball and pro basketball), but I've just really started getting more into college football the past few years. KSigRC (who is very knowledgeable about college football) has been able to explain quite a bit of the deeper stuff to me, but I'm still very much in the learning process, so to speak.
For what it's worth, I was looking at Football Outsiders (a football site similar to Baseball Prospectus), and they had an interesting conference breakdown:
http://footballoutsiders.com/varsity...nce-breakdowns.
ETA: It's funny seeing UConn have one of the top two pass defenses in that story, and then watching them give up two long pass plays yesterday where the receiver was essentially by himself.