re: strength of schedule complaints

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no one is calling for that.

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my observation differs.

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Looking back at the last 10 or 15 years, last year was more the rule than the exception

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you yourself stated that the sec as a whole was changing recently in that regard. "SEC teams in general have been ramping up their non-conference scheduling". that statement agrees with mine that lsu is not terribly different than the rest of the conference. not to mention that you're including years from the worst decade of lsu football ever. last year was the exception, not the rule. va tech, oreg st, ariz st, ariz, (when they were scheduled, they looked like they were going to be much better than they were).

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Three times in ten years, we've played a ranked non-conference opponent. Three times in 35 non-conference games is not most of the time.

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rankings are nearly impossible to predict. you should know that. you go with promising bcs opponents