re: A&M's schedule

It's too bad that you're self esteem is tied to the results of your failing college football team and that you choose to make up "your truth" to assuage your hurt feelings.
Your salty vagina is weeping heavily.

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Check again. Currently higher than OU, Tenn, Vandy and Ole Miss

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I'm still waiting for this weeks updates for SoS, should be out later today.

Going into the weekend, you were dead last in the SEC. You might have passed Ole Miss this weekend since you played Missouri and they played FCS, we'll see.

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Just have to call BS on the whole SOS whining. Coming out of South Bend with a win is legit. Coming out of Baton Rouge at night with a win is legit. And they took care of business when they were supposed to.

Horns took the same crap last year for winning in the Big House and Kyle Field at night.

All you can do is play who's in front of you. Haters still gonna hate.

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But it's not a vacuum, other teams are also playing those games and more of them.

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They are way overrated but Texas last year was similar and lost to the only team they played with a pulse

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And we laughed at the constant threads crying about it the same way aggies are now.

Every fanbase in the SEC proclaims that it is head-and-shoulders tougher and different from every other conference... until a team people don't approve of start winning.

I'm with aggie fans on this one: the rest of you like OP are being hypocritical crybabies

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Sorry, I didn't realize you were the sole arbiter of statistics credibility.

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Or maybe there is a valid reason for it because I've got decent experience in this area and understand the flaws. As I said they use averages.

I'll demonstrate for you. 2 teams with a 2 game schedule.

Team A plays #49 and #50
Team B played #1 and #120

Who has the toughest schedule? If you use the shitty metrics I say do not have credibility, they would tell you Team A does. However, in reality team B's schedule is not only more difficult, it's significantly more difficult.

Why? Because a decent team who plays on Team A's schedule will likely be 2-0. While even a great team who plays on Team B's schedule will likely be 1-1. So the best way to measure SoS is not by any average rank, power or whatever of the teams played, but the expected losses a good or elite team would have on their schedule.

And using that kind of metric, Texas A&M was last among the SEC going into the weekend. And again, it's possible they have passed Ole Miss because Ole Miss played a FCS while A&M played what will be seen as probably your 2nd toughest game of the season in Missouri as computers don't know you played a 3rd string QB.

So unless you can show me a better way to calculate SoS, I'll be sticking the metrics I currently use. I hope other metrics like the ones you are citing wake up to the fact their metrics suck.

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But it's not a vacuum, other teams are also playing those games and more of them.

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I'm not saying there aren't differences in SOS. But OOC schedules are made years in advance. Not a program's fault if the year they play ND, Michigan, Clemson they happen to suck.

There's also really no control over conference schedules. When LSU is on your schedule it's a circle-the-date type of game. And honestly can say that about 75%+ of the teams in SEC which is why I'm glad to be here.

Now scheduling the likes of UTEP, Samford, etc. is open to criticism. But all SEC schools do the same.

Absolutely LOVE this crying and gnashing of teeth. Hope it continues through Jan!

Yes, A&M is absolutely one weak team. Anyone who watches them should know it.

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So unless you can show me a better way to calculate SoS, I'll be sticking the metrics I currently use. I hope other metrics like the ones you are citing wake up to the fact their metrics suck.

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I believe what you are describing is strength of record, not strength of schedule. Amd i believe A&m has the #1 SOR in the country.

This thread is exhausting.

Fact: Mizzou has been very good the past few years.

Fact: Mizzou barely lost to Bama and Vandy this year.

Fact: Mizzou had our arses handed to us Saturday.

Fact: We belong in the SEC.

Fiction: We should expect 10-2 every year. Do I want that? Yes. Is it realistic? No. That doesn’t make me “self-deprecating.” It means I’m rational.

Fiction: Drink is a crappy coach. Um, his record proves otherwise. The big wins WILL come.

Fiction: A&M should be embarrassed about their schedule. What the hell? They just beat us and we’re dissing them? Ridiculous! They’re a good team. They outperformed Bama against us.