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CLDuck
As the season draws closer and closer, Oregon fans get crazier and crazier
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At the time I did the research and had this same debate the SEC played about 60% more games against ranked opponents than the PAC1.

It's amazing how playing 4 creampuffs can bump up your win-loss record. Thus you become ranked. So your conference plays each other and gets credit as being ranked teams for beating Creampuff State? So your teams are ranked because they beat creampuff state? Oh, how awesome they all must be. Take out the creampuff victories and then it is just all in conference losses and it will look different. LSU normally only schedules 3 creampuffs, congrats for that. The PAC12/10 has a 9 game conference schedule, how about you? Oh, you don't? So you don't have an extra game to brag about or to lose with a really tough team, like an in conference team?

CLDuck,
As I have stated elsewhere in this thread, a majority of SEC teams have played BSC caliber OOC opponents every year since the BCS era started.

Not sure where in the world you got 4 creampuffs.
That is incorrect. I have listed most of the BCS caliber teams that the SEC has played since 2000 in another reply in this thread. You may want to read them. Most, if not all SEC teams have played at least 1 name BCS caliber OOC opponent, and some SEC teams have played two in one year.
(LSU in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011 for example.)

Now, as I have also stated in this thread, yes, the SEC has scheduled some creampuffs as well.
Why do you think that is?
Again:
1. The SEC plays 8 conference games, as opposed to 9 by the Pac 10. That means that the SEC has to schedule an ADDITIONAL 24 OOC games a year.
It is very difficult for 12 ADs to find dates to play each year when we are are scrambling years ahead to fill them.
2. Some SEC teams are contractually obligatged to play an in-state OOC opponent.
3. Sometimes, a name OOC opponent cancels or reneges on a date, thus causing the jilted host a lot of trouble trying to find a last minute replacement.
EX. 2003 Va.Tech canceled their return trip to Baton Rouge (LSU played at Blacksburg in '02), and there was NO ONE available to play on that particular date. Western Illinois agreed to make a change in THEIR schedule to come fill in.

[quote] "LSU normally only schedules 3 creampuffs" [quote]

REALLY ???????????????????????????????????????

So, since 2002: Virginia Tech (twice), Oregon State, Washington, Arizona (twice), Arizona State
North Carolina, West Virgina (twice) and OREGON, are creampuffs ??????????????????????????

Sorry if I offended you or was being mean-spirited in ANY way, I just felt I needed to set the record straight and let you know the facts.
Nothing personal my webbed friend