re: LSU schedule ranked 5th toughest by both NCAA and Phil Steele

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Ones that probably dont have Northwestern State and Western Kentucky dragging it down

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His #2 and #3 schedule have two open dates. Their OOC games are TCU, Stephen F Austin, Rice and Northern Iowa, UConn, and Iowa. So they both play a D1AA team as well. I guess it would've been better for LSU to just have an open date instead of playing WKU or NSU.

Only thing that makes Colorado's tough is no open date.

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Laughable. Show me 4 tougher schedules.

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Oregon St. and Colorado have tougher schedules. Rado has ZERO Bye weeks and 8 road games. LSU has the toughest schd out of theams that have a shot at the NC easy.

For the sake of comparison, here are CU's and LSU's top games per the Sporting News Poll. Obviously it's not an exact science but...come on?


5 Oregon* or 5 Oregon -Neutral > Home
3. @Alabama or 4. @Stanford
11. Arkansas or 17. @Ohio State
18. Auburn or 21. @Utah
20. @Mississippi State or 23. Arizona State
22. @West Virginia or 25. USC
30. Florida or 49. Arizona
37. @Tennessee or 57. @Washington
52. Kentucky or 61. @Hawaii
@73. Ole Miss or 66. Cal
118. Western Kentucky or 82. Colorado State
Northwestern State or 84. @UCLA

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Easily #1. They just factored in opponents W/L's last year. Not the fact that we have to play Oregon in Dallas, Bama in Tuscaloosa, State at State, at Tennessee, West Virginia at Morgantown. We also have to play Arkansas, UF and AU (though we do play them in Baton Rouge). I hate to sound like a homer but our SOS has to be #1.

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They just factored in opponents W/L's last year.

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No...no he didn't...Read the link again.

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No...no he didn't...Read the link again.

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Dropped the ball, my bad. I still don't think there's anyway we easily don't have the toughest schedule. Maybe its just IMO but I thought it was pretty obvious.

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Finally, I grow weary of excuses for failing to appear in Atlanta

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LSU has appeared in Atlanta as many times as any school in the SEC west and has many SEC titles as any school in the SEC West since 2005.

When you have done as well as any school in the SEC west and as good as any school in the SEC, but for Flor, why would LSU have to excuse anything???

Perhaps you should be thankful for what LSU has has done since 05...such as...the 2 west titles, the SEC title, having the most SEC wins of schools in the west, having a Top 5 ranking in winning percentage among BCS schools, a 28-1 OOC record, a 5-1 bowl record, and a NC since 05.

Just my opinion.

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For the sake of comparison, here are CU's and LSU's top games per the Sporting News Poll. Obviously it's not an exact science but...come on?


5 Oregon* or 5 Oregon -Neutral > Home
3. @Alabama or 4. @Stanford
11. Arkansas or 17. @Ohio State
18. Auburn or 21. @Utah
20. @Mississippi State or 23. Arizona State
22. @West Virginia or 25. USC
30. Florida or 49. Arizona
37. @Tennessee or 57. @Washington
52. Kentucky or 61. @Hawaii
@73. Ole Miss or 66. Cal
118. Western Kentucky or 82. Colorado State
Northwestern State or 84. @UCLA

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colorado's is harder for them because they are a mediocre to bad team and will struggle against middling competition

for a top ten school LSU's schedule is harder because there are a few more probable highly ranked teams

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yes, much better to rate it based on ranter rankings instead?

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I think W/L percentage is the dumb part. That logic would say that a team who faces 5 teams who were 10-0 and 5 teams who were 0-10 has just as tough a schedule as a team who faces 10 teams who were 5-5. Both would have a schedule with a 50% winning percentage, although one is certainly "tougher".

If you are going to use last year's information, which is all that is available in the preaseason, you should weight the extremes properly.