SEC Media Poll Team Rankings

To be fair, we play #1 twice.

No lamenting from us. 11th seems right. This is a tough conference.

LSU at 5 seems a little high to me.

LSU has a ton of question marks on paper

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Did TEX draw the easiest schedule in the league this season .... their first?

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In life being shitty usually doesn’t pay off. However, the SEC in making up initial schedules used the past 11 years worth of records to determine strength of schedule. Since tx has sucked all but one or two of those years they got an easy draw. And since OU dod so well they got the harder one.

At the same time, some SEC teams are risers who haven’t fared so well in those 11 years so it just happens to be OU is playing them (Mizzou, Ole Miss for example). Using their method those teams weren’t listed as high, kinda like tx.

I can see their initial logic with schedules but they likely should have put some adjustments in place based on recency. My understanding is they ranked all 16 teams this way and sorted them. Then used that list to make schedule. Some of our opponents were sorted much lower but happen to have good teams right now. And they will play the same teams in 25 just reversing home/away.

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However, the SEC in making up initial schedules used the past 11 years worth of records to determine strength of schedule.

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No they didn't. Explain Florida's or Vandys schedules.

I have no idea how we’ll be this year. And I’m not falling for the preseason hype this year put out by the program. Show me.