SEC Late Season Cupcake Scheduling

[flips]

Indiana's resume is the weakest of all. They played two sub .500 G6 teams and a sub .500 FCS team out of conference. Their conference schedule has six of the bottom seven Big Ten teams, and eight of the bottom ten.

The only teams they faced with a winning conference record (and a winning record overall) were Ohio State, who spanked them, and Michigan who played them close. Five of their conference opponents finished sub .500 overall. Two finished 6-6.

So that's 8 games vs sub .500 teams
2 games vs .500 teams
2 games vs teams with winning records.

PSU's resume weak as well. 3 1-score wins against teams with combined 20-16 record (best is 2 7-5 teams). Best win was against Illinois at home. A bit ludicrous that they're ranked 3rd.

 

[mcnaire2004]

‘25-ND/uF
‘26-ND/USCe
‘27-USCe/Utah

As you probably know already, we’re doing that.
The problem? Those games are played in Sept (ND ‘26 will probably be later).
The narrative @ selection time is/will be how teams are playing late in the year.

Did anyone @ ESPN bring up our game against the gator??
Or the fact that they finished 1 game behind Bama in the SEC?

Well some people in life don't have equal access. To get the same quality they have to work harder and do the job better to get the same level of respect. That's us. Whining that it's not fair is it going to get us anywhere. ESPN as a contract with the SEC. No matter what argument you want to make or anyone wants to make, at the end today, that money will matter more. If we have to schedule four quality OOC games then so-be-it. That would be better for the fans anyway.

 

[Damiencane86]

Our "bad losses" are a combined 9 points over two games. Bama not only lost 3 games, two were to bad teams as bad or worse than the teams we lost to, and one was an absolute ***-kicking by a .500, unranked team where Bama only managed 3 points and lost by 21. At no point in our losses were we ever utterly non-competitive like Bama. The CFP Committee themselves stated that number of losses is of primary importance, yet they ignored that in exactly one instance in their last poll, us

I don't understand how losing to 8-4 GT & 9-3 Syracuse are bad losses. I guess neither having the cache of a traditional football power or the SEC patch is why.

 

[NJshoreCane]

Well some people in life don't have equal access. To get the same quality they have to work harder and do the job better to get the same level of respect. That's us. Whining that it's not fair is it going to get us anywhere. ESPN as a contract with the SEC. No matter what argument you want to make or anyone wants to make, at the end today, that money will matter more. If we have to schedule four quality OOC games then so-be-it. That would be better for the fans anyway.

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I agree.
BTW, I haven’t whined about us not getting in.
I’ve posted about Bama not deserving as well, although I had them slotted in the 11 spot before Tuesdays rankings for reasons you stated above.