re: BCS: If you had to pick either polls or computers...?

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Your suggestion would give LSU (1 FCS team, 6 2-10 teams, 6 9-3 teams) a higher SOS, but I'd say that USC's schedule (4 5-7 teams, 9 8-4 teams) is definitely tougher.

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Let's take the words LSU and USC out of this as much as we can... so we argue about the theory instead of LSU/USC or their conferences

For different types of teams different schedules pose different challenges.

For a bad BCS team (say Vanderbilt) the second schedule would be much harder because there are very few teams there of equal talent. But for a higher quality team (say OSU, Bama, Texas) the first schedule would be more difficult - because the more highly talented teams you face... the more teams with a puncher's chance you have to get past