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You ever watch football before?! You must have a kicker! If not, you're forced to go for it on 4th down almost every possession that is not in chip-shot range. If not you're punting where you may try a 40-50 yarder. Look at the margin of victory in the SEC this year, under 10 pts. per game I believe & tell me a good kicker is not important.

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Did Missouri not have a kicker or something? What is this about? Missouri only had one drive where they got into field goal range without scoring a touchdown and in that drive they kicked a fricking 49 yard field goal. They made all their extra points? Their kicker had virtually zero impact on the game except a small positive one.

I gotta think that the school that really screwed this up, in that they might be farther down the pecking order than they think and the fact that "one more bad year" wasnt likely to even be that bad for them is Penn State, but they were the ones that jumped off the high dive first.

If my count is correct, there have been 33 games so far between the Power 4 leagues, including Notre Dame as a power conference team.

The breakdown of these games is as follows.

The SEC is 10-4
The Big 12 is 8-6
Notre Dame is 5-2
The Big Ten is 5-7
The ACC is 5-14

SEC
4-2 vs ACC
3-0 vs Big 12
2-1 vs Big Ten
1-1 vs Notre Dame

Big Ten
2-1 vs ACC
2-2 vs Big 12
1-2 vs SEC
0-2 vs Notre Dame

The following Big Ten teams do not have a Power 4 opponent on their schedule outside their conference.

Indiana
Washington
Northwestern
Maryland
Rutgers
Penn State

In the SEC the only team that will not play a team from a power 4 conference in the regular season is Ole Miss.

The Big Ten's performance this year in out of conference games is very weak, and there are a significant number of teams unconnected from direct comparisons to teams in other conferences. IMO, the one Ohio State win over Texas is doing a significant amount of heavy lifting in the annual "SEC is overrated!" screeching from the northern part of the country this year.

By the end of this carousel somebody who doesn’t want to right now is going to end up having hired Jimbo Fisher…

Bobby still has timeouts he can use today. Advantage Hogs

Hmm, I hadn't considered the rivalry week thing limiting the scheduling options. Missouri and Oklahoma should be paired then, because they are the two teams have their traditional games that could be resumed. The conference may do LSU-Oklahoma like I think is happening this year, but Bedlam could easily return.

That means that LSU by default should go back to being paired with Arkansas.

That leaves something like this:
Alabama: Auburn, Tennessee, Miss State
Arkansas: Texas, LSU, Missouri
Auburn: Alabama, Georgia, Florida
Florida: Georgia, Auburn, South Carolina
Georgia: Florida, Auburn, South Carolina
Kentucky: Tennessee, Vanderbilt, South Carolina
LSU: Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Arkansas
Ole Miss: Miss State, LSU, Oklahoma
Miss State: Ole Miss, Alabama, Texas A&M
Missouri: Oklahoma, Arkansas, Vanderbilt
Oklahoma: Texas, Missouri, Ole Miss
South Carolina: Georgia, Florida, Kentucky
Tennessee: Alabama, Vanderbilt, Kentucky
Texas: Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Arkansas
Texas A&M: Texas, LSU, Miss State
Vanderbilt: Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri

Obvious games
Alabama-Auburn
Alabama-Tennessee
Auburn-Georgia
Florida-Georgia
LSU-Texas A&M
Ole Miss-Miss State
Oklahoma-Texas
Texas-Texas A&M

Other rivalry games
Arkansas-Texas
Auburn-Florida
Kentucky-Tennessee
LSU-Ole Miss
Missouri-Oklahoma
Vanderbilt-Tennessee

Geographical proximity games
Alabama-Miss State
Arkansas-Missouri
Arkansas-Oklahoma
Florida-South Carolina
Georgia-South Carolina
Kentucky-Vanderbilt
LSU-Miss State
Ole Miss-Vanderbilt


Close enough
Missouri-Kentucky

What the hell, but theres always gonna be one of these that dont make no sense and at least these two have already been playing each other
Texas A&M-South Carolina

NET is a predictive efficiency ranking with a super-secret fudge factor built in to give teams a bit of extra credit for certain wins. Therefore it is almost the same exact thing that KenPom is and that is why they are pretty much the same.

As such NET is no more influential in determining who deserves to be in the NCAA Tournament than any other efficiency metric. It just tells you which teams have scored the most points per possession and allowed the fewest adjusted for location and opponent. They are "predictive" in the sense that they tell you who can be expected to win a future game based on each teams past efficiency.

The biggest factor in whether a team deserves to make the NCAA Tournament is the results or "Resume." This is "who did you actually beat and who did you lose to, and what was the location of those games."

You can't really just use an efficiency ranking like NET alone, because an efficiency ranking relegates the most important stat, wins and losses, to a secondary status. An SEC team in a weird year like this year could go 0-16 and if they lost every game by one single point, their efficiency or NET rankings would actually look good because they would seem like they are just as good as Auburn, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, A&M, Kentucky, etc etc. The reality though, would be that they beat nobody.

The main purpose of the NET ranking is to judge the quality of those wins and losses and therefore have a greater understanding of the Resume. Knowing that Team A went 1-0 and Team B went 1-0 tells you nothing. But combined with a predictive rating like NET, you can judge the results and see that Team A beat the team expected to be the 5th best in the country on the road, while Team B beat #117 at home.

Thats where all the dividing up wins into Quads comes in which helps them judge resumes that consist of 30+ games for each team.

You better shoot an ungodly percentage if your opponents takes 33% more shot attempts than you do. A&M had 15 more shots, and also five extra free throw attempts. OU got blown out on the glass and in turnover margin. That one dude being unconscious almost won it for them.

Florida did get called for holding against us, so its not "none of A&M's SEC opponents"

Opposing linemen havent been called for holding since the second quarter of our game against Bowling Green in week 4.