re: Current Strengths of Schedules

I have been around Texas fans my whole life. They all act like BigBro.

Make up narratives in their head playing the victim.

Another one I always laugh at is they have to think when they win it’s just bc they are Texas. They hate being told they get favoritism or getting a bad call that helped them win, like the non targeting call last year against Arizona State. It’s really important for them to believe they do everything fair and square. And everybody cheats, but not them.

And they really are going to lose their shite with A&M, OU, Tech and maybe even SMU making the playoff while they sit at home.

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No I think the point is pathetic...... We almost lost to Kentucky & Mississippi State and lost to Florida. Complaining about anything and missing the CFP this year reeks of weak

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Once again, you are missing the point. I’m not saying Texas should or should not be in the playoffs.

I’m making the point that if Oklahoma makes the playoffs, they are in over us because we scheduled and lost to Ohio State.

Likewise, if Michigan hadn’t scheduled Oklahoma, they’d likely be in, even with a loss to Ohio State.

These games will not be scheduled in the future, and that sucks. There shouldn’t be a penalty for playing those games.

UF’s strength of schedule has been high from before the beginning of the season though.

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I’m making the point that if Oklahoma makes the playoffs, they are in over us because we scheduled and lost to Ohio State.

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That’s one way of putting it, which I understand. But allow me to offer some alternative reasons why the Sooners might get in over Texas:

They’ve lost only two games, not three.
Their losses were both to ranked teams; your third loss was to one of the crappiest teams out there.
Both of you played a ranked Big10 team. They won theirs; you lost yours.

Losing a single game to a ranked team didn’t knock Oregon, Georgia, Ole Miss, or Texas Tech out of the top ten. Losing even two games to ranked teams hasn’t done that to OK or ND. But you’ve lost three games one of which was to Florida, a team whose only other wins are over MSU and the Long Island University Sharks. Not exactly an auspicious club for a team you insist should vault into the playoffs over better teams with better records.

Keep arguing your point if you want, but everyone else knows that you’ve lost more games and to a crappier team than any single team ranked above you.

Do SOR. Playing a good team and getting your arse whipped proves nothing.

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I like Lanning, but how many SEC schools played a cupcake yesterday and still have a higher SOS than Oregon?

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All I heard yesterday was people talking shite about SEC cupcakes. Funny enough, a shitload of them were Notre Dame and Nebraska fans. The delusions are crazy. Auburn has more ranked opponents than those two combined.

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Generally the more you lose, the better your strength of schedule gets because you've added a bunch of Ws in your opponents' columns. Conversely, the more you win, the more you hurt your own strength of schedule by added so many Ls for your opponents' records.

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Orrly??

Then explain how Oklahoma, Bama, and UGA are in the top 11?