re: Penn state could be a sleeper this year

Which schedule is harder:

Wisconsin (Green Bay)
Rice
Michigan State
@ Purdue
@ UNC
Stanford
@ BYU
Navy (Foxborough)
Miami (FL)
Boston College
SMU
@ Syracuse

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Marshall
@ Temple
Buffalo
Wisconsin
@ Northwestern
USC
@ Michigan
Purdue
@ Washington
Minnesota
Rutgers
@ Maryland

They won’t have as much pressure on them either. Or at least won’t be in the national spotlight until probably that usc game if they are undefeated. You figure they will have a decent defense for those softies they play and also assume they will have a decent run game. By no means am I saying they will be any different than any other Penn st team but all that matters to the committee is W’s and your typical (not counting last year) Ho him average Penn st team is losing a max of three games on that schedule and if they flip one more game and end the year with 2 losses that’s probably post season. And it will benefit them to miss the big 10 championship game cause they would probably lose that. The whole not being penalized for conference title thing could come up but at least they wouldn’t risk a 49-3 trouncing. On schedule alone I’d have to call them the big 10s biggest serious dark horse

At Michigan and at Washington makes the second one harder. That first schedule is a damn joke. Alabama would look like Sabans teams against that schedule except against Miami maybe. If I’m on the committee that top schedule better not have one competitive game or I don’t see how I can put them in. And beating Miami is absolutely necessary or out. That’s the penalty for that schedule

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I forgot who even took that job if I’m honest

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Matt Campbell