Power 5 OOC scheduling

Understand what you are saying . It is frustrating.

LSU not getting credit beating Texas ; but Baylor gets credit for beating Texas.

UGA beating Notre Dame carries a lot of weight.

Bama beating Duke ended up hurting

Will Wade is the scheduling king. Take a page out of his book. Schedule a lot of projected 8-4 and 9-3 types from the AAC and Conference USA. Ohio State is getting more credit for crushing Cincinatti than we’re getting for crushing Texas AM or beating Texas. Both of whom would be handily favored over Cincinatti

The Texas game was a blast and I can assure you that getting ready for that game and winning that game on the road in that environment (biggest UT home game in a long long time) paid massive dividends during the season. I’d much rather play our ooc or Auburn’s than bamas. Too short of a season to not have a fun big time ooc matchup

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The way Texas has fallin apart, it basically made that game on the road in 100 degrees useless unless you lose it. Oregon lost to Az. St. that’s true. But had they won that game, if they would’ve just played some nobody school, they’d be in the playoff. So in LSU’s case, a loss to a pretty good Texas team at the time would be detrimental now because UT isn’t as good as they were in Week 2. I love watching those type of games, but they very rarely are beneficial. Just my thoughts.

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Completely understand that it didn't help us this year, but it was the reason we played for a NC in 2007. We boat raced VTech who was #3 which is why we got in.

it's even worse...

comparing SEC to Big Ten head to head for Power 5 non-conference wins...
both conferences have 14 teams
4 Big Ten schools didn't play Power 5 non-conference games (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana & Illinois)
2 SEC schools didn't play Power 5 non-conference games (Tennessee & Arkansas)
SEC was 9-6 or 60.0% win % vs. Power 5 non-conference
Big Ten was only 6-5 or 54.5% vs. Power 5 non-conference
and the CFP committee elevated the playoff ranking for 4 Big Ten schools (all of whom played tOSU)

and with Bama's poor schedule... prior to the Iron Bowl, the CFP committee had Bama right on the doorstep of the playoff, even with their awful schedule.

This is the real shitty thing about scheduling a power 5 Texas. You get no credit for scheduling them if they don't have a great season. Essentially, it's held against us.

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The way Texas has fallin apart, it basically made that game on the road in 100 degrees useless unless you lose it.

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I disagree. I think winning that game was very beneficial for the team. When we got to the meat of our SEC schedule, we had already played a big time game in a hostile environment, gotten into a shootout, and won. I’m glad we had that experience rather than another cupcake win when we played Florida, for example.

Wins like that are great for the team, regardless of whether they help us in the committee’s eyes. With all of the rent-a-wins and SECw bottom feeders nowadays, you only get 3-4 opportunities to really see what the team is made of.

Also, most if not all season ticket holders would rather have a home game against Texas next year than Western Kentucky.

Just win,

We literally have destiny in our hands. They will make Movies of this

The committee a couple of years in a row has ignored strength of schedule. Bama and Clemson got ranked all year based on reputation instead of competition on the field.

We still do not know what Clemson has relative to the top ten/fifteen teams.

Bama feel apart, albeit in close games to LSU and Auburn. Had Bama played a more difficult schedule who knows what would have happened.

On the other hand LSU played at Texas, Auburn andFlorida. Took some big punches.. responded.. so the magnitude of playing at Bama was something LSU knew they could overcome.

Georgia has played a solid schedule

To be fair to Ohio State, generally they have a big time power 5 matchup every year out of conference. Luckily this year Cincinnati turned out to be a decent team. Next year Ohio State is @ Oregon. In a few years Ohio State has Washington AND Texas.