ELO Rankings are generally almost as accurate as any Top 25 poll can be at this point in the season. In fact, the ELO rankings are super similar to the current Top 25 polls.

It’s not like RPI where the #1 team is a 7-8 Northern Idaho team for the first 4 weeks.

At this point in the season, no rankings should be give a ton of weight, and that includes the Baseball America and D1Baseball polls as well, not just computer rankings.

But they do mean something. ELO is by far the best indicator of how good teams 26-302 are. It’s not much different from KenPom in basketball. People use those rankings year round. So at this point, I do believe that Ole Miss has played a tougher schedule. I could be wrong, but that data does mean something and it does point towards Ole Miss having a tougher SOS.

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Posted by lsufball19

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Member since Sep 2008

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Posted on 3/3/21 at 1:35 pm to diddlydawg7

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I could be wrong, but that data does mean something and it does point towards Ole Miss having a tougher SOS.

Here are the current SOS rankings from WarrenNolan
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Arkansas 15
South Carolina 46
Florida 50
State 59
Georgia 64
Ole Miss 69
Alabama 88
Tennessee 119
Vanderbilt 122
LSU 132
Texas A&M 136
Kentucky 150
Auburn 179
Missouri 196

So like I said, it's negligible, with a slight edge to State