Strength of Schedule

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After all, Arky has to play LSU every year.

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Yeah, and we have to play Arky every year which holds us back from locking in the top spot

Definitely. I thought another interesting note was that Texas' SOS in those seven years was 50. That was much lower than I expected, playing in the Big 12.

Texas' OOC is usually embarrasingly poor.

Cool link.

I'll repost it there - I'd like to hear some other teams' prospectives.

The SEC has 8 of the top 10.

Here's the NCAA schedule stats:

NCAA Toughest schedule

I think "Sorted on Cumulative Opposition" makes the most sense.

To be completely accurate, you'd need to measure not only the level of competition of each team's opponents, but the opponent's level as well.

For example, shutting out the top offense in the country doesn't mean squat if those numbers were put up against the likes of Shoo Fly U, Little Sister of the Poor, and Rent A Win State.

Had this same argument with the Tacklebox U fans prior to the Cotton Bowl. They were posting fancy graphs about how their defense had shut down better offenses than ours, and how we'd never seen the likes of their offense.

Remind me again how that turned out?