re: ND schedule, not SEC caliber, but harder than I thought

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i've argued for 9 years that SOS should only take into account the top 4-6 teams on a schedule

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It's a very good point. At least weighted more heavily toward games played against teams on the Top 25 and Top 50.

I'd guess you may at least see this with a selection committee in the future like with basketball?

I don't dislike the human polls as much as many seem to because I think a lot of voters already do consider this.

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not in any meaningful way

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obviously the talent level is more stratified than you are insinuating.

a hierarchy exists and it should be rewarded, its silly to suggest otherwise. hell, might as well just play 5 teams per year according to your logic.

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but both are so close to 0 that it just doesn't matter to me

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but that is not true; poverty AQ players get drafted at much higher rates than nonAQs.

why shouldnt one be rewarded for scheduling *tougher* competition?

ND has better wins then all of the sec except fla

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why shouldnt one be rewarded for scheduling *tougher* competition?

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because i don't think the difference has any real effect on the seasons, and it warps actual comparisons to the aspects of SOS that matter, imho

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Exactly, this year ND is an outlier a throwback to the 80's independents a full schedule,

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ND's schedule that "matters"

Stanford
OU
USC
Michigan

4 < 5

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but it doesn't change the fact that Wake Forest>>>>>>>Western Kentucky and that matter.

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wake forest is a slightly bigger fly to get swatted by an elite team like ND. it's still just a fly

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Wake Forest would beat Western Kentucky by 40

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irrelevant

i'm not saying that wake isn't better

i'm saying that neither are legit threats to an elite team, so they're all in a big mass of teams who pose essentially equal risks to an elite team. any difference in threat level is negligible

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Doesn't Michigan St belong on that list?

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they're 5-6

in the big10

so...no

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You can cherry pick all you want but it doesn't change the fact that Wake Forest>>>>>>>Western Kentucky and that matter.

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If I'm a legit team and you let me pick playing Wake 12 times in a season, or WKU 11 times and Bama once, I'm taking the Wake option every damn time.

Stanford, OU, Michigan, and USC is a solid top 4 games though, and definitely deserving of going to an NC game if the team that has that schedule goes undefeated, regardless of who else they play. I just don't see why any weight should be given to teams 8-12 on the schedule that aren't real threats, just because they've got a better name than the non-threats on everybody else's schedule.