It is obvious as I watch PSU destroy SMU and listen to those questioning IU's schedule strength,that something must be done to measure everyone's strength of schedule . Part of that might be just rewarding teams for whom they play out of conference and then track the number of wins those teams have and use that number as a reward or detriment to your team's overall strength. Yes, if everyone played 3 tough non conference teams, the 12 best teams might all have 3 losses. I would love to hear other possible ways to pick the 12 best teams in an era of giant conferences and unbalanced schedules. And before anyone complains, IU certainly deserved to be in thus year. SMU did not.
Strength of schedule
- Thread starter Rotonda Jim
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Nothing will be perfect. there’s gonna be debate every year, but I think anyone who loses 3 games, including at least 1 to an unranked team, shouldn’t be in the playoffs.
I don’t think SMU can argue they deserved it, but nobody else has a resume deserving either.
You can say that that there’s wide separation between an IU or SMU and the top of the college football, but you also have to acknowledge that SOS is not what lead to Alabama and Ole Miss getting left out. It was losses to the type of teams that IU regularly torched.
Couple of things, IU’s schedule at the beginning of the year looked daunting. They had the 2 teams that played for the natty on their schedule plus OSU and the regular Big Ten crew like Maryland and Nebraska. Not their fault those teams did not have a good year.
Second, the way they figure the strength of schedule has some inherent problems as it is still somewhat predicated on how the teams were expected do before the season begins. The SEC gets a big bump because everyone thinks they are all good teams from the start but if they have an off year like many of them did this year, they still get a lot of credit for just playing those bad teams.
Second, the way they figure the strength of schedule has some inherent problems as it is still somewhat predicated on how the teams were expected do before the season begins. The SEC gets a big bump because everyone thinks they are all good teams from the start but if they have an off year like many of them did this year, they still get a lot of credit for just playing those bad teams.
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