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re: Each playoff team's strongest OOC opponent
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:36 am to Wildcat1996
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:36 am to Wildcat1996
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So not a single playoff team has an OOC game vs. a playoff team.
In fairness, you don't know who is going to be a playoff team when these things are scheduled years in advance, but as has been said by many, there is little incentive to schedule a solid OOC P5 opponent in the current system.
You really should have skipped this whole comment
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Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:37 am to theballguy
You felt so strongly, you posted it twice?
We all heard your wrongness the first time.
We all heard your wrongness the first time.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:38 am to TideWarrior
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So those 4 did not play a P4 OOC team.
We had USC and Wake scheduled but they backed out over the offseason.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:40 am to Nitro Express
and we should cancel all tough out of conference opponents.
So no more uf vs fsu or Miami, uga vs gt, Clem usce, Kent Louisville? No data points for big vs sec? This is the absolute stupidest idea. Go round up the teams not in the sec or big that compete at the top level and separate.
So no more uf vs fsu or Miami, uga vs gt, Clem usce, Kent Louisville? No data points for big vs sec? This is the absolute stupidest idea. Go round up the teams not in the sec or big that compete at the top level and separate.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:46 am to skrayper
Just 2 losses? Alabama against 5-7 Florida State, and Tulane against Ole Miss.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:48 am to theballguy
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I don't like seeing rematches in the first round. Such a boring opening slate.
Do you want to see the best football (best teams) you can possibly have?
or is "best" defined as "novelty" to you?
If "novelty" then I bet you would prefer to see the field expanded to 32 or more.
Going to 24 and maybe 32 is inevitable now. Without it the SEC and B1G are going to get screwed and with it they can get 8-10 teams in. Bowl games are also meaningless now. The reality is the Playoff is going to be a lot more like other sports like Basketball and Baseball in terms of larger fields and simply getting in or getting to the Final 16/8/4 being a accomplishment for a lot of teams.
I don't like it per se but it's happening regardless, right now we are caught between systems.
Oh, and they could definitely rework the seedings to have better matchups. They have done it before.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:49 am to Wildcat1996
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So not a single playoff team has an OOC game vs. a playoff team.
Ole Miss did
Posted on 12/8/25 at 11:52 am to Nitro Express
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The SEC is about to go to a 9-game schedule, and we should cancel all tough out of conference opponents. We're the only conference in football playing a real schedule, and there's no need to add to it.
I love big OOC games. I do find the B1G’s schedule laughable. They claim 9 conference games makes it so hard for them but it seems like they each have 2 games against
Purdue
Rutgers
Michigan State
Northwestern
Maryland
Who would be middle of the road G6 teams
Posted on 12/8/25 at 12:31 pm to Wildcat1996
You must be simple.
Posted on 12/8/25 at 12:48 pm to skrayper
Cancelling ooc will not help you …. Losing does not help you ….. winning ooc games do help you … look at OU
Posted on 12/8/25 at 1:14 pm to Gman84
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Therefore, few have OOC wins vs playoff teams.
I'm not even making that point.
One team didn't play a team from a major conference (the #1 seed)
Two teams played a team that went 2-10 (the #4 and #5 seeds)
Right there you have two byes and the highest rated non-bye team (getting the easiest opening game) for teams that had absurdly easy OOC opponents.
The next weakest OOC opponent was Alabama's FSU, and they're playing away against a team that already beat them.
The next weakest OOC P4(5) opponent was against a team that played one of the G5 playoff representatives.
But mostly the emphasis was on the ones that used an incredibly weak slate of OOC games to catapult into the most advantageous positions in the playoff (two byes and the easiest of the non-bye seedings).
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