OT: College Football Universe's 2013 NCAAF Strength of Schedule rankings are out.
I thought ND had the toughest schedule every yr?
How about OSU? Do they crack the top 100?
by the fact that they cannot play themselves for a conference game
we cannot play ourselves in conference probably hurts us too.
One of the many benefits of being OSU or UM is that you never need to play both teams. If you did, it would really suck.
They clock in at 46, but if you look at their schedule they really should be more around 80.
True. And we can't properly judge a president's performance until we have at least 50-100 years of perspective and hindsight. Are you okay with people on message boards starting to talk about President Harding's performance, or should we all wait awhile on that?
Turd, you are in rare form tonight! /s
Give Harding a little more time. We can easily discuss the feud between Taft's Interior Secretary, Richard Ballinger, and Forestry Chief, Gifford Pinchot.
I cannot tell you how excited I am to see a reference to Gifford Pinchot on this board.
But I would be VERY excited to see a reference to Bronson Pinchot.
My Great grandfather and Gifford Pinchot were good friends. Gifford Pinchot asked my great grandfather to name his son after him. So my grandfather, dad and myself are named for him. My greatgrand father was the president of one of the largest coal miner unions back in the day for PA and WV and Pinchot was the Gov of PA. That's my cool story bro for the day.
Here's how the Big Ten ranking shape up on this site. I included Maryland and Rutgers for comparison and kicks.
| 8. Purdue 43.25 |
| 14. Illinois 47.5 |
| 18. Iowa 48.92 |
| 22. Michigan 50.58 |
| 29. Indiana 55.33 |
| 30. Penn State 55.5 |
| 33. Minnesota 55.92 |
| 36. Northwestern 57.25 |
| 43. Wisconsin 61.42 |
| 46. Ohio State 61.92 |
| 51. Michigan State 63.50 |
| 52. Nebraska 63.58 |
| 72. Maryland 70.75 |
| 75. Rutgers 71.75 |
Where is that quote from?
Have fun, Darrell Hazell.
But don't you have to see how good teams ACTUALLY ARE before you can calculate a remotely accurate SOS?
How dare you use such logic with College Football rankings.
Maybe, but do you think there will be a lot of surprises? It's not like Florida A&M is going to a BCS bowl.
thier new director starts today, and he admits he was hazed when he was at FAMU - Champion's family is not pleased. 12 have had charged upgraded to manslaughter from the incident; no trial dates set yet.
considering Michigan doesn't play Michigan
No....NO....NO!!!!
Even the sh*ttiest SEC team is better than anyone in the B1G. Pay attention!
/everyone south of the Mason-Dixon line and at ESPN
After venting via my snark-filled post, I decided to actually look at Bama's schedule for 2013. I was pretty shocked at just how weak it is...
Bama's 2013 regular season schedule with opponents' 2012 record in parens:
- Va Tech in Atlanta (7-6)
- @ Texas A&M (11-2)
- Colorado State (4-8)
- Ole Miss (7-6)
- Georgia State (1-10 FCS team)
- @ Kentucky (2-10)
- Arkansas (4-8)
- Tennessee (5-7)
- LSU (10-3)
- @ Mississippi State (8-5)
- Chattanooga (6-5 FCS team)
- @ Auburn (3-9)
For those keeping score at home, that is 2 FCS teams, 5 FBS teams who made it to a bowl game (btw, Va Tech and Ole Miss squeaked into bowl games with 6-6 records) and 5 FBS teams who did not get the 6 measly wins required for a bowl invite.
Additional fun fact: Of Miss State's 8 wins, only 1 was against an FBS opponent who finished with a winning record. That opponent: 8-4 Middle Tennessee State from the Sun Belt.
that if anyone ever brings that up on ESPN, someone will immediately chime in "But all those teams would've been 10 win teams in other conferences!!" Then my head will explode
That is why I was saying they only play two teams this year. Look I am a total UA homer but I think it is ridiculous that they were given a walk this year. They will always play UT in the East but the rotating game was changed to UK. UK that finished at the bottom on the East last year and both of those teams just fired their coaches. In fact, they are playing every team in the SEC that fired their coach last year.
I am just at a loss on why they are rated so high for SOS.
To his credit CNS is pushing for 9 SEC games and 1 out of conference BCS game (like Michigan last year and MSU starting soon) as a conference rule but the vote was 1-13 against the change. Les Miles says it is not fair that UA plays Tennessee when LSU plays Florida as a perm cross division rival.
I think the SEC gave a slow pitch softball to UA and UGA so that they have a good chance of going undefeated in regular play so the SEC champ has the best possible shot at the BCS championship. UGA does have LSU though so they have the edge as far as conference schedule goes (since UGA has Auburn as the perm rival and that game is just as much a give me as the Kentucky game for Alabama).
Any team playing two FCS schools should be banned from the title game. SEC or not, at least put a little effort into OOC scheduling.
PU: Cincy, Indiana St., ND, and NIU.
UM: CMU, ND, Akron, UConn
They're in the same division as Michigan, and they're OOC schedule is: NIU, Missouri State, Iowa State and Western Michigan. ISU seems to be the only credible threat, really, and they're 4 spots ahead of us. Honestly seems like they should be 4 spots behind us...
is probably the fact that Iowa gets a bump for playing Michigan while Michigan doesn't get a similar bump for playing Iowa.
Did you miss the fact that NIU played in a BCS Bowl last year?
Yet still lost to Iowa
October 6th, 2013 at 3:19 AM ^
actually the link u posted is not a respected SOS sight..but the 6 actual respected sights have Cal,Arkansas,Stanford and Kentucky in the top 5 and oesn't even have LSU in the top 10 and most have Kentucky at #1 and Oklahoma at #2 and by those some sights most have Michigan anywhere from #14-#17