re: Scheduling Tough OOC games

YOU COULDN'T PLAY RICE. How do not still know the rules. One power 4 ooc opponent. Good lord dude.

Woah. I earned a response thread from someone?

So basically in your analysis when comparing 3 sec teams that are 6-2 where Texas beat BOTH teams you are saying the worse loss would keep Texas out and Vandy over? Don’t agree with that logic but ok

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Vandy, Chokelahoma and UTrans all went 6-2 in SEC games. Vandy lost to a ranked UTrans and a ranked Bama. Chokelahoma lost to a ranked UTrans and a ranked Ole Piss. UTrans lost to a ranked Georgia and an unranked Florida.

Chokelahoma got the game because they beat Bama and Vandy lost to Bama.

Both of Vandy's and Chokelahoma's losses were to ranked teams. UTrans had a bad loss to an unranked team. Chokelahoma and Vandy would have got the game before UTrans.

The CFP committee was not going to let 6 SEC teams into the playoffs. That would be half of the available spots going to the SEC and they were not going to do that. If they did, Vandy likely would have gotten in before UTrans
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Just so you're aware, here is the comittees ranking criteria. Nowhere does it say "worst loss" or "record" anywhere.

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PRINCIPLES The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering: Strength of schedule,
Head-to-head competition,
Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory),
Other relevant factors such as unavailability of key players and coaches that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.

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The CFP Website

Cool. Enjoy the Cheeze it Bowl. If you had beat Florida it could be different.

35-10

Jesus, how long are Texans gonna whine and make this ridiculous assertion that they’d have made playoffs if only they hadn’t scheduled OSU?

If only there were actual data points on the effect of losing to a top 10 team. Like if OSU had lost to Indiana. Or UGA to Bama. Or Oregon to Indiana. Or Ole Miss to UGA. Or aTm to UT. Or Oklahoma to Ole Miss. Those losses really hurt their rankings and knocked them out, right? Oh wait, those teams all lost to a top 10 team but handled the rest of their business. But ignore the facts.

And here’s the really stupid thing about assuming they would have gotten in with a 10-2 record but for OSU on their schedule: a team that LOST TO FLORIDA can’t exactly assume any win.

Can we just stop this tiresome whining?

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Crawled back up to 14. Lost bad to UGa but stayed at 14.

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Texas was top 10 before UGA, and dropped to 17 after UGA.

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Florida is the game that sunk you, not tOSU.

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Point's moot. If Texas scheduled the Sisters of the Poor instead of tOSU, and then lose to Florida, they're still a top 10 team after that loss. Texas is ranked 8th at 10-2 with losses to Florida and Georgia.

Point being you have nothing to gain from playing these OOC games, it even sounds like Elko agrees with this. At the end of the day, us Texas fans are preaching to the choir as Sark already said tOSU in '26 and Michigan in '27 are not going to change (unless our opponents decide to cancel them).

Poor horns...

Rodo

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You are correct, but you fail to understand the point.

Why schedule a 50/50 game when you can schedule a 99.9% win and receive the same benefit?

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Just ask Indiana if not scheduling a decent OOC opponent had any impact on them? They didn't play a single P4 opponent OOC.

They essentially played a two game season, won both, and are now the #1 seed in the country with - presumably - the easiest road to the title.

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I will say it 1000 times as it bodes 100% true. A 10-2 Texas team with the exact same schedule and outcome while swapping a 7 point loss to OSU in September with a W (regardless of how it happened) to a cupcake P4 like 95% of the other country schedules puts that 10-2 Texas team in the playoff.

Prove me wrong.

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I don't need to prove you wrong, because you aren't wrong about this season. You're arguing the wrong point, though.

The point that is being argued is whether or not it is worth it to schedule P4 teams for non-conference games vs. only scheduling cupcakes. The answer to this is that it depends on the team and the rest of the season that team has, as well as how other teams are playing that season.

This season, Texas would have benefited from not having the additional loss (or rather, having an additional win), but next season could be different.

What we did see this season, and what we see most seasons, are bubble teams competing for placement, either for a playoff spot, or a bye or home field playoff spot, and that position could be given to one team or another based on their SOS. If you have five 10-2 teams vying for a spot, including a couple of SEC teams, a win over a P4 team may look better than wins over cupcakes only.

You might think having a 9-game SEC schedule should suffice going forward, but some seasons you might wind up playing the bottom half of the league and get passed over by a team who played more of the top half of the league. It's just going to depend on the context, and saying that it's never good to schedule a better OOC game is just silly given the nature of the playoff selection committee.