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re: Honest Answer, LSU Fans...Cross-Div. Games
Posted on 7/28/14 at 1:16 pm to Monticello
Posted on 7/28/14 at 1:16 pm to Monticello
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A tougher schedule should be an advantage in the context of a playoff, especially since the SEC is staying at 8 conference games. You want those 8 games to boost your SOS. I want Bama to have a very tough schedule every year. If UT continues to suck (and I don't think they will) that will come back to bite Bama eventually when we miss out on a playoff spot due to SOS.
I think SOS will be the #1 criteria for the selection committee
That would be a perfect world. Where you get rewarded for beating a great team, penalized for losing to a great team, and heavily downgraded when losing to a bad team.
SOS hasn't been a factor in college football (inside the BCS conferences) that I'm aware of. If it had been Bama definitely wouldn't have had a rematch in 2011 (and just so I'm not perceived as being biased - LSU may have not gotten a shot in 2007).
And if you were actually rewarded for strength of schedule and not just penalized should you lose a game, then no one would ever complain about it. Well except bama fans because they'd be continually left out of the playoffs due to weak SOS.
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