LSu Strengh of Schedule

1-3 and 5 are all Pac-10 teams. does that have anything to do with them being bad teams playing up? because it's oregon st., washington, UCLA, and washington st. while oregon's is 72.

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1-3 and 5 are all Pac-10 teams

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Computers like to see teams play BCS schools. The Pac-10, due to its round robin, plays a 9 game in conference schedule. In contrast, the SEC and most other major conferences, play an 8 game conference schedule.

If a Pac-10 team schedules 1 non-conference game against a BCS school, it will have an advantage, SOS wise, over an SEC team that schedules 1 non-conference game against a BCS conference school by virtue of the extra conference game.

Is this really fair? Depends on how good the Pac-10 is conference-wise. This year, Oregon and Stanford are pretty good. Every else is competitive and only Wash State sucks.

And if you're wondering why Mississippi State and Alabama are ranked above us in strength of schedule, it's because they have to play LSU and we don't!

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Oregon played cream puff teams in their non-league match ups.

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Tennesse is a cream puff???? LSU disagrees.

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1-3 and 5 are all Pac-10 teams. does that have anything to do with them being bad teams playing up? because it's oregon st., washington, UCLA, and washington st. while oregon's is 72.

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Yes, a top heavy conference, like the Pac-10, will skew their bottom dwellers SOS over those from a more balanced conference like the SEC.

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JPLSU1981

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Just to update your post. Here is how currently ranked teams breaks down:

Oregon (1)

#6 Stanford

Auburn (4)

#5 LSU
#12 Arkansas
#18 South Carolina
#25 Mississippi State

Boise State (1)

#16 Virginia Tech

TCU (1)

#20 Utah

LSU (3)

#2 Auburn
#11 Alabama
#25 Mississippi State

Wisconsin (3)

#8 Ohio State
#10 Michigan State
#24 Iowa

Stanford (2)

#1 Oregon
#21 Arizona

Ohio State (2)

#7 Wisconsin
#24 Iowa

Oklahoma State (2)

#15 Nebraska
#17 Texas A&M

Michigan State (2)

#7 Wisconsin
#24 Iowa


You can add two more ranked teams to Auburn's schedule by the end of the year. Although, if Auburn beats South Carolina pretty badly in the SEC Championship, they could knock them out of the top 25. You can also add two more ranked teams to Oklahoma State's schedule (assuming they make the Big 12 championship)

You can add one more ranked team to LSU, Oregon, and Boise's schedule by the end of the year.

So by the end of the season, it will be:

Auburn - 6

LSU - 4

Oklahoma State - 4

Wisconsin - 3

Oregon - 2

Boise State - 2

Stanford - 2

Ohio State - 2

Michigan State - 2

TCU - 1

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Why doesn’t it count if we beat a ranked team if they were ranked when we beat them?

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Who said it doesn't count?

I was just showing a break down of how it works when you use currently ranked teams (as most of the CPU polls do in evaluating SOS).

Unfortunately for college football, I don't get an actual say in the BCS.

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College football is built on emotions.

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Irrelevant.

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When we played them they were ranked as if they were ranked and the media ranked them.

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And now, based on their body of work, some teams are not. This works both ways. We get credit for beating a ranked Mississippi State team now even though they weren't ranked when we played them.

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That makes 5 ranked teams and more than anyone else this year.

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By your criteria, we drop Mississippi State and only have four on the schedule.