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strength of schedule for top 10 BCS teams
strength of schedule starting at #1 ending at #10
OSU T-48th
LSU 24th
Va Tech 3rd
Oklahmoa 39th
Georgia T-25th
Missouri 13th
USC 80th
Kansas T-81st
WV 47th
Hawaii 117th
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12-04-2007, 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by medic914
strength of schedule starting at #1 ending at #10
OSU T-48th
LSU 24th
Va Tech 3rd
Oklahmoa 39th
Georgia T-25th
Missouri 13th
USC 80th
Kansas T-81st
WV 47th
Hawaii 117th
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But of course no one would ever bring that up.
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12-04-2007, 12:33 AM
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But of course no one would ever bring that up.
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This came up today with a friend.. we were both astonished to find that SC beat 2 teams with winning records this year. TWO... What was Cowherd saying about SC last week?
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12-04-2007, 12:52 AM
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This came up today with a friend.. we were both astonished to find that SC beat 2 teams with winning records this year. TWO... What was Cowherd saying about SC last week?
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Yea this actually came up in a conversation with me and PSU buddy over the weekend and I couldn't believe it...I actually had to look it up. I just can't believe you still hear the media praising them saying they are "the best team in the country right now and they are playing perfectly". Well when your playing against teams with losing schedules, it's hard not to.
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12-04-2007, 01:02 AM
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"Just playing the schedule in front of us" 
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12-04-2007, 01:09 AM
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ehh...Can't really argue with that 
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12-04-2007, 03:12 AM
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The Big Ten needs every team to rethink its scheduling and performance against OOC opponents next year. Scheduling FCS teams and bottom dwellers in the FBS and, worse yet, losing to them, has hurt Big Ten teams badly this year.
If you think about this as a modeling exercise, by the time teams enter conference play, SOS has largely determined the power rating of a team. Teams that have played weak SOS OOC schedules are going to have lower SOS, because margin of victory has much less weighting in models.
All of this means that, a victory over a team that has established a low SOS in OOC play, does little to help Big Ten teams improve their own power ratings in the BCS. Outside the computers, this affects pollsters as well. The result longer term is that great recruits will choose to play elsewhere.
Big Ten coaches need to make sure that they discuss this candidly in their conference meetings after the season. Conference teams must be ready for their bowl games this year and their OOC schedule next year.
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12-04-2007, 04:50 AM
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