re: Do we have an argument to get in a regional…

SOS is flawed in the sense of how many more wins would LSU have if they had the same schedule of some of the lower end top 25 teams. There is nothing about ULL, Utah, or Indiana States schedules that scream out “difficult”. Each team only has what 54 games, and for LSU more than half come against the best teams in the nation. When they understandably lose those games they are at a significant disadvantage.

I don’t understand RPI and haven’t put the effort in to understanding it, but is it supposed to be a better metric than overall SOS?

Does the committee give more weight to sos or rpi when looking at this group of 34 or so teams and trying to make a decision? I appreciate your input as you seem very knowledgeable on all this.

Also just to clarify, I’ve never meant to suggest that LSU deserves to be in over teams like ULL, or Utah. I was simply asking once we got to the point of looking at the human element, what all factors were taken into consideration. From where I’m sitting there is evidence that LSU is better than ULL when you factor in wins vs top 25 teams, common opponents, and head to head matchup so when discussing the last teams in, that seems like a valid argument.