Baylor 2015 non conference schedule

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Not any better Lamar, Rice and SMU. Saves on Travel I guess. Time for an upgrade

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Hes got a point Baylor

Even the Aggies are trying to boost their schedule.

It's just as bad in 2016 and 2019. They at least have Duke in 17 and 18. Pretty inexcusable for a power 5 conference team IMO.

Hard to say now since the playoff committee just finished its rookie season, but the Big12 may have suffered the same fate of the Pac-10 when they began playing 9. That is, it backfired. The more conf games you play, the more everyone's SOS approaches the mean, meaning that the top SOS's are hurt by the extra game against a team in the same incestuous pool. If a math formula is used, it is harder for a Big 12 team to get in the playoff than it is for an SEC team to get in even without the benefit of an SECCG. This may or may not be a factor at all since the selections are done by committee rather than by math exclusively.

Think about it. If the Big 12 and SEC somehow won all their OOC games, the SEC combine for a .665 winning percentage as opposed to the Big 12's .625. That's a pretty big gap.

#onetruechampion

Baylor got left out for two reasons:

1. Their non-conf strength of schedule was awful

2. The Big 12 doesn't have a championship game.

#2 is the biggest reason they're not in the playoff IMO. The conf. championship game is a risk/reward game.

On the one hand a very good team has to risk a possible loss (usually to a really good opponent) in an extra game that another team does not. Ex. 1 loss OSU this year; FSU this year who was the only undefeated team in the reg season; LSU in 2011 who finished undefeated. A loss in the championship game for any of those teams likely would have bumped them out of the National Championship picture in favor of a team that did not have to "lay it all on the line" one more time.

On the other hand, it is an opportunity for a team to boost it resume that a team in conf. without a championship game doesn't get. OSU did EXACTLY that this weekend. If not for the championship game performance, Baylor is in and OSU is out. Florida did the same thing in 2006 while Michigan sat at home. It's what allowed LSU to jump a 10-2 UGA team that was ranked higher than them going into the SECCG