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Originally Posted by Lee3691
Maybe, maybe not - doesn't change my view on the matter. Our OOC wasn't strong last year, but in fairness, when VTech was scheduled, they were a perennial top 10 team and Cincy had some success. I'm not saying all OOC should be against the Alabamas and the USCs of the world, but only one Central Tennesee Tech type of school should be allowed.
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Cincy is a perfect team for what team's in the power 5 conf should be scheduling. And again VT in my opinion is starting to be that tier 1.5 school. They could be top 10 some years but there's also a chance they could be outta the top 50.
Just think about Minnesota, perfect example of tier 2-3... TCU scheduled them and that's nothing to get overly excited about but Minnesota ended up exceeding expectations so that turned into a good W. It was also a game the committee compared to Ohio State's performance vs Minn.
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Originally Posted by emu513
Agree. This is probably the best formula to get into the playoffs. Shows a non-Baylor-like OOC schedule and mitigates risk in playing a top 10 or so team.
As much as I'd like to see phenomenal OOC games, not every team is going to be able to schedule a tier 1 program OOC every year. There really just aren't as many of those games to go around and many programs do not sustain their tier 1 status every year. This is a solid compromise... just literally schedule games against teams OOC that people have heard of and you won't hear much shit about scheduling patsies.
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For those teams in the #6-15 range of the preseason rankings it makes perfect sense. They keep winning, they keep moving up as long as they are playing quality opponents.
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Originally Posted by recentlyJTR41
What I think a OOC schedule should look like for an SEC team that doesn't have a permanent rival in a power 5 (UGA, Florida, USC, Vanderbilt)....Lets use Ole Miss as an example
- Ball State
- Nevada
- @Virgina Tech
- Jacksonvile State (HC)
That's a decent OOC schedule for an SEC West team that usually has to play at least 2-3 top 10 teams a year. Get a cupcake for HC and two smaller conf. games and then a power 5 team.
For every power 5 it should 2-3 lower conference teams and the 1 power 5 conf teams. Doesn't matter who you can't predict the future but at least try. Home/away obviously. Speaking of the selection committee I do think they should take into consideration if you're playing at a neutral site. Wisconsin beating Bama this year would be impressive but that's like a bowl game there in Dallas. Beating them in Tuscaloosa would be more impressive imo. I may be in the minority but I think CFB would rather see these big schools play at their own stadiums so they can finally have that whole "Well we came down there and whooped yall!" arguments ya know? Reminds me of Bama/Michigan a few years ago when Bama beat the dog shit out of UM. Had it been in Ann Arbor they may have only won by 4 TD's instead of 5.
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SEC is a different beast IMO. You are pretty much guaranteed to play 2-3 highly ranked to pretty highly ranked teams each season. With maybe another top 25 thrown in there. The FCS match ups is fine to me because with the SEC the SOS discussion will usually favor them regardless of the non conf schedule when comparing teams head-to-head. If they at least put a little effort into making their OOC somewhat respectable I'm fine with it. The other Power 5's need to schedule those more difficult OOC games in order to get their schedule as a whole on par with the SEC teams. That's the difference.