re: After Week 11 SoS rankings.

Indiana has earned that right to be in the playoff with an undefeated campaign so far.

They get Ohio State in 2 weeks

Confused as to why the Big 10 is getting such inflated schedule rankings. Penn State has exactly one team on their entire schedule that's currently in the top 25 and they lost to them.

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Yep so maybe I’m wrong but I think that the way moving forward. An easier schedule may mean you more than likely make playoffs but you will likely have less room for error. If they lose another game it could mean they done make playoffs.

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Depends on when we lose it. If we win out then lose the sec champ game I think we're in. If we lose another reg season game and miss the conf. championship game then we probably will, and should, be left out.

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Indiana has earned that right to be in the playoff with an undefeated campaign

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Fair enough, I just disagree, and think it's unfortunate that they could knock out a one-loss SEC team, for example.

How can you fix this without further causing distress or major realignment? I don't know.

I realize they've done all they can given their schedule.

To me the problem is that there are too many teams without a system to weight them accordingly. In CBB with the NET for example, a team ranked at 125 would never make the NCAAT simply because they're undefeated — it takes more than that into account, including the quality of their opponents (Q1, Q2...).

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I've been dropping this concept here for a little while — Indiana is a fun story, but the idea that they "deserve" to be up there is ludicrous.

And maybe they do, but there's nothing to indicate that yet. (And I'm also rooting for Curt Cignetti since he was under Saban at Alabama.)

Same with Army. I caught some prognosticators this weekend saying it was shameful that they weren't included. By this metric, their SOS is 129.

This is another glaring reason why I believe we'll eventually move to the superconference model. There's no way to guarantee schedule parity unless you have divisions, champions, wildcards, etc. like in the NFL. And you can only do that with fewer teams under consideration.

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I don't think it's a coincidence that we constantly see teams like this doing great while having a weak schedule. It's over and over again.

While it's completely possible that they are a great team and haven't been able to show it, it's pretty much a safe bet that it's not the case. Just like it wasn't the case with many others that suddenly seemed great out of no where on weak schedules.

The upside here is that they are in the Big10 so eventually they'll have to play someone. Unlike a G5 team where it's most common.

They didn't have such a great time against an average Michigan team. They have bye next week before playing Ohio St, so if they can't win that, then shouldn't be in the top15.

One thing I like about this metric's SoS is they jump up a bit after playing Ohio St. It's not an average, so it recognizes the more difficult game. It's not going to be huge in terms of overall rankings, but it should be a bump and their expected losses should increase.

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Confused as to why the Big 10 is getting such inflated schedule rankings. Penn State has exactly one team on their entire schedule that's currently in the top 25 and they lost to them.

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They aren't really.

There are 10 SEC teams with a higher SoS than Penn St, and they are just barely ahead of A&M. So take a look at A&M's schedule and it's comparable.

However, considering the remainder of the Penn St schedule, more SEC teams including A&M are going to pass them. So in terms of Penn St they'll end up with what's considered a very weak SEC schedule.

We have one loss. If we lose to Georgia, then it's an argument, and the SoS will jump. And that's if Ole Miss makes it by Miss State and @Florida with Lagway.

Ole Miss should've forfeited that Georgia game for being so collectively dumb they stormed the field 30 seconds early.

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I would wager UT has one more loss left in them.

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You don't feel like we can beat whoever lands in the natty against us?

I find your lack of faith disturbing.

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LSU defense just sucks even worse than Milroe’s passing game, reading defenses, and other qb things. Hopefully Alabama can win the rest of the games because, though OU and Auburn have better defenses than LSU , they struggle on offense, plus Milroe is off and on, boom or bust. The Auburn game is at home

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Looked to me like Milroe stopped trying to be Joe Montana and used his legs.