If CFP was based entirely on SOS

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Brave Volunteer said:
Kind of mind-blowing where in a season Tennessee plays Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Florida they are only ranked 29th in SOS.
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That’s why opponents opponents record matters. I posted that last month. And demonstrates the weakness of Indiana and Penn States records.
 
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I like that the system we are using adds a March Madness aspect to it.

Who knows...some wannabe like Boise St, SMU, Clemson....may shock the world for one game.
 
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VolsFan-TX said:
Wasn’t that ranking presented as Strength of Record instead of Strength of Schedule?
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I’m presuming there’s some other factor applied? I was guessing something like (for example) a 9 conference game schedule adding a factor that increases one’s strength of record; possibly some factor to balance/prop/increase if a team didn’t play a game against an FCS opponent.

I would have to research more though.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
I like that the system we are using adds a March Madness aspect to it.

Who knows...some wannabe like Boise St, SMU, Clemson....may shock the world for one game.
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No they won't. SMU has a prayer only because Penn State is a joke, but this idea of March Madness type Cinderella runs happening in the CFP will be debunked very quickly. One win every few years? Maybe, as long as they keep letting in pretenders like Penn State and Indiana, but CFB is a completely different animal than CBB. Depth and talent wins in CFB, while a hot shooter or a unique scheme can steal a couple of games in March Madness.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Not really. Bama took a step back and OU, Ark, UF were definition of mediocre.....

1 elite, 1 very good, and 3 mediocre
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Sigh. Yes I'm aware of how those teams played this year. I'm saying to look at our schedule on paper, who would've ever thought it would be considered on the weak side.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Sigh. Yes I'm aware of how those teams played this year. I'm saying to look at our schedule on paper, who would've ever thought it would be considered on the weak side.
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Yeah, I know. The reason why we will be freezing our asses off next weekend is IU was good and UK, OU, UF, and NCSU ranged from sucky to meh....
 
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TrueOrange said:
They also played and beat Penn State as the away team.
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They did have that feather in their cap (lost at home to mediocre team too). We had a bit of bad luck with how the middle of our schedule performed while they benefited from IU being good...
 
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sami said:
No they won't. SMU has a prayer only because Penn State is a joke, but this idea of March Madness type Cinderella runs happening in the CFP will be debunked very quickly. One win every few years? Maybe, as long as they keep letting in pretenders like Penn State and Indiana, but CFB is a completely different animal than CBB. Depth and talent wins in CFB, while a hot shooter or a unique scheme can steal a couple of games in March Madness.
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I'm going to go ahead and predict that Clemson takes down Texas.

But, you aren't wrong. Larry Bird led a tiny team to finals in basketball. Vince Young somewhat one-man ganged a NC win over USC.

But, you are right; it would be rare. We gonna find out.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
I'm going to go ahead and predict that Clemson takes down Texas.

But, you aren't wrong. Larry Bird led a tiny team to finals in basketball. Vince Young somewhat one-man ganged a NC win over USC.

But, you are right; it would be rare. We gonna find out.
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Yeah, you've had the George Masons and FAU's that pop up from time to time, and get at least a couple of big upsets annually in MM, but that kind of tun will never happen in CFB, and even one big upset will be uber rare at this level unless it's an Indiana being taken out.

That Texas game was way more about the utter incompetence of USC's coaching than it was Vince Young. That, and Guy Lewis literally handing Valvano the national championship are maybe the two most egregious coaching jobs I've ever seen in title games.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
They did have that feather in their cap (lost at home to mediocre team too). We had a bit of bad luck with how the middle of our schedule performed while they benefited from IU being good...
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And lost by a point on the road to #1 team in the country…does that matter or nahh? I guess we’d have won in Eugene no problem, right?
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
Sigh. Yes I'm aware of how those teams played this year. I'm saying to look at our schedule on paper, who would've ever thought it would be considered on the weak side.
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Not weak in comparison to ND, Indiana, PSU, SMU, Boise, and even Oregon. The only top 20 team Oregon played in the regular season was tOSU at home and that was only a 3-pt. win. Their next best win was against Illinois, who beat the worst team in the weak B1G, Purdue (arguably the worst P5 team in the country), 50-49.
 
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Jax_Vol said:
But, you aren't wrong. Larry Bird led a tiny team to finals in basketball.
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I played in a church basketball league in the late 80's and one of my teammates was Steve Reed who was a starter on the Indiana State team with Larry Bird. I think we had two players as good, if not better than Reed, on our team. Neither played college ball. That's how good Larry Bird was.
 
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BigOrangeMojo said:
Not really. Bama took a step back and OU, Ark, UF were definition of mediocre.....

1 elite, 1 very good, and 3 mediocre
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A team that took us to OT, was on their way to beating UGA before losing their qb, and that beat LSU and Ole Miss in consecutive weeks to finish the season is not mediocre.
 
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