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Grumpy Old Fart
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![]() Going into the season we have the #13 most difficult: http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/201...h-of-schedule/
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Soup Spoon
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: North Augusta
Posts: 167
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![]() And Bama at 95th...
Saban's good at three things: recruiting, coaching...and playing a sissy schedule EVERY season. |
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Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Lexington
Posts: 1,695
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Blue Chip
Male Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: blahtown
Posts: 668
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![]() How is that possible? They have LSU, Auburn, and A&M guaranteed on the schedule. That is at least 3 top 20 teams, and two have a very good chance of being top ten when Alabama plays them.
So how exactly can their schedule be 95th? The past decade or so the West has been tougher year in and out than the east. |
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Soup Spoon
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: North Augusta
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That's why it's at 95th. We play more than twice that many. |
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Diehard
Male Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: greenville,SC
Posts: 7,049
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![]() a&m is not guaranteed to even be a ranked team next year. they lose a lot plus their D is absolute garbage. Plus, the article clearly shows how the rankings are figured out. Only by winning % of the previous year.
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BIGGER. STRONGER.LONGER
Male Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Club Fields
Posts: 7,281
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![]() I can knock Saban's scheduling stuff, they constantly play a good out of conference team like Michigan, VT, top 10 Clemson, sometimes at neutral sites or away.
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Banned
Male Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Appalachian Trail
Posts: 3,260
CockyCash: 500 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 4,936
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Does that mean they aren't that good? no Does it mean they aren't the best team in the land? no Does this hinder their chance at the final 4 playoff? probably so. They have to be perfect and dominate the 4 OOC teams. That is what this playoff system if for. So at the end of the year if the Tide is 1 of the 4 teams in the playoff they will get to prove just how good they are. |
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2nd Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,432
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![]() Pre-season SOS means about as much as pre-season rankings. They are always based off last years teams. They don't take into account that they are completely different teams.
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Soup Spoon
Male Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: North Augusta
Posts: 167
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![]() Bama has been GREAT. Not knocking that or the results that have come from it.
But their showing in the end of year SOS is bolstered dramatically over the last five years based on the SEC Championship Game and their opponents in bowl games. Their regular season schedule is not in the Top 20 in the regular seasons during these years. Now, I understand they do not control their SEC schedule s and it's not their fault they're drawing East teams during their down years...nor is it their fault some of their OOC games were signed when those teams were good, yet somehow those teams may be down once game day rolls around. They, however, do not schedule difficult, IMO. |
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2nd Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Anywhere USC is playing.
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![]() This shows how tough our conference schedule is.
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Blue Chip
Male Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Columbia
Posts: 988
CockyCash: 244 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
![]() This article is somewhat flawed because it weighs W/L of FCS opponents the same as conference opponent. Let's be honest, a 6-6 SEC team is superior in talent than a 11-1 or 10-2 FCS team.
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Charleston, SC
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![]() yay for #3!
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Household Name
Male Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Greenville, SC
Posts: 5,536
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![]() Bring on the playoff system. That will equalize any weak schedules of perceived "great"teams.
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Game MVP
Male Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Lake City, SC
Posts: 1,540
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![]() take away FSU and USC from Clemson's sos and you'll see theirs drop dramatically.
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1st Team All-SEC
Male Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Sumter
Posts: 4,168
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![]() The method used to develop this ranking is so flawed it begs to be ignored. We should get tough schedule credit for having Coastal Carolina (a 12-3) team on our schedule even though we overwhelmed them few first teamers playing? Or Furman at 8-6 over Tennessee at 5-7? Or SC State at 9-4 over a 4-8 Florida?
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