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re: Your school's football point differential over its entire history
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:03 pm to Tuscaloosa
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:03 pm to Tuscaloosa
Kinda neat stat, but not very meaningful IMO.
First, the SEC schedules so many terrible OC games that a huge portion (probably like 90%) of the differential is against terrible opposition in huge blowouts.
Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, Tenn, Florida, and UGA. Bama was something like AU, Tenn, Vandy and MSU or something.
First, the SEC schedules so many terrible OC games that a huge portion (probably like 90%) of the differential is against terrible opposition in huge blowouts.
Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, Tenn, Florida, and UGA. Bama was something like AU, Tenn, Vandy and MSU or something.
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Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:04 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Vandy
Yeah, well let me know when Auburn evens the series with Vandy.
This post was edited on 7/6/15 at 12:05 pm
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:05 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, Tenn, Florida, and UGA. Bama was something like AU, Tenn, Vandy and MSU or something.
Little bro gonna little bro
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:05 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, Tenn, Florida, and UGA. Bama was something like AU, Tenn, Vandy and MSU or something.
Link?
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:09 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
quote:Why compare AU-UA schedules? What about AU vs LSU, or AU vs UGA, or AU vs FLA? All those programs have a higher point differential than AU.
Kinda neat stat, but not very meaningful IMO. First, the SEC schedules so many terrible OC games that a huge portion (probably like 90%) of the differential is against terrible opposition in huge blowouts. Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, Tenn, Florida, and UGA. Bama was something like AU, Tenn, Vandy and MSU or something.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:09 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama.
Good point. Alabama gets to play Auburn, which adds 325 to Alabama's positive point differential. Whereas Auburn has to play Alabama which takes away 325 from Auburn's point differential. It just isn't fair.
Posted on 7/6/15 at 12:26 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
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Second, even comparisons within the SEC against each other are pretty meaningless when you consider the wide historical variance in strength of schedule. Take AU vs Bama. AU has played the toughest SEC schedule of anyone and bama has played the weakest, over the past 23 years (since 1992 expansion). That holds up going way back as AU's yearly rivals before expansions were: Bama, blah, fricking blah, blah, blah...
Meh.
All-time SOS rankings:
1 Michigan
2 Georgia
3 Auburn (AL)
4 Northwestern (IL)
5 Alabama
6 Louisiana St.
7 Illinois
8 Notre Dame (IN)
9 Iowa
10 Purdue (IN)
11 Indiana
12 Texas
13 Georgia Tech
14 Minnesota
15 Wisconsin
16 Vanderbilt (TN)
17 Ohio St.
18 Florida
19 Tennessee
20 Mississippi St.
qwitcherbitchin
Posted on 7/6/15 at 1:08 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Somebody fell out of the #big6.
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