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By BlueBlood
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ballcoach15 wrote: December 11th, 2020, 9:17 am Ohio State is ranked 72nd in strength of schedule. Their resume isn't playoff worthy.
Which places it somewhere between Clemson's and ND's.

SOS is one element to look at, but you can't get carried away with it. The better teams usually have one of the lowest SOS's in their conference - because all the other teams get "SOS points" for playing them and they don't get those (because they can't play themselves).

CCG's should help all the top teams uptick a bit at the end though.
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By VarsityLu
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ballcoach15 wrote: December 11th, 2020, 9:17 am Ohio State is ranked 72nd in strength of schedule. Their resume isn't playoff worthy.
Way to cherry pick a stat. SOS has an inverse relationship with your overall rank. That means the higher a team is ranked, the more difficult it is to get a better SOS. A crappy team has the easiest path to a strong SOS because every single game they play is tough. Get it?

By the way, FL and A&M (both in the mighty mighty SEC) have WEAKER SOS than OSU. If you want to cherry pick, at least pick a stat that you can defend.
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By JK37
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Their resume may not be. But they are one of the best four teams. Both can be true.

That said, every conference seems to have a small contingent - sometimes if just one school - running things:
Big 12 - Texas & Oklahoma
Big Ten - OSU
ACC - the NC B-ball schools
Pac12 - The CA schools
Etc
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By Purple Haize
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ballcoach15 wrote: December 11th, 2020, 9:17 am Ohio State is ranked 72nd in strength of schedule. Their resume isn't playoff worthy.
Well you have ‘coach’ in your screen name so...
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By alabama24
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BlueBlood wrote: December 11th, 2020, 9:53 am
ballcoach15 wrote: December 11th, 2020, 9:17 am Ohio State is ranked 72nd in strength of schedule. Their resume isn't playoff worthy.
Which places it somewhere between Clemson's and ND's.
here is the thing about Ballcoach... He doesn't care. He likes the teams/conferences he likes, he dislikes the teams/conferences he dislikes.

After all, he is one of those saying that they should "abolish the P5/G5 distinction." Isn't the distinction a matter of "strength of schedule?"

I LOVE what Liberty has done this year. I LOVE our record (but wish we were 10-0). But lets be honest: We aint played anybody. Don't get me wrong: Beating VT was HUGE for us, but not because they "were a good team." (Hint: They weren't.)
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By PAmedic
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And if everyone stopped quoting his drivel
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By jinxy
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To be devils advocate. Why play the games if we know who the top 4 are. I think teams that played a full schedule should be rewarded. Recruiting rankings tell you who has a shot to be in the playoff.

Its another subject but the dp show discusses quite a bit the other day and hes right. The g5 will never get a team in no matter what under the current structure. Freeze alluded to it once that only a few teams were playing for a title. The rest had no shot.
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By Purple Haize
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PAmedic wrote: December 11th, 2020, 8:24 pm And if everyone stopped quoting his drivel
For now on I’m going to constantly quote him just to annoy you :)
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By PAmedic
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You’ll be added to the list
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By Purple Haize
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PAmedic wrote: December 11th, 2020, 11:03 pm You’ll be added to the list
I got your list right here sizzle chest!
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By Cider Jim
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Jonathan Carone wrote: December 11th, 2020, 2:08 pm You guys would be a lot better off if you learned to use the Foe feature.
Are you kidding me? Some of us come to ASOR just to be coached up daily by Ballcoach and read his predictions. :oldhag
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By Cider Jim
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TH Spangler wrote: December 12th, 2020, 9:57 am Liberty
BYU
Coastal
ND
In the playoffs. Only 2 losses between them :lol: :lol:
That's what Ballcoach is talking about (except he hates ND).
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By rmiller1959
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Miami, Colorado, and Missouri went down, and USC and BYU are in tough fights right now. How many more teams have to lose before Liberty is considered for the CFP Top 25?
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By FLAMEfromBAMA
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I don’t see how we aren’t in this week with 21 and 25 getting waxed by teams who shouldn’t be close to the Top 25. Our one loss will likely be to #22 NCST.
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By olldflame
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JK37 wrote: December 13th, 2020, 10:42 am Pretty cool seeing full stands for Army/Navy. Most-attended football game this season?
I don't think so. Only 4300 cadets and 4300 midshipman plus a few "insiders". I believe there have been some games where large stadiums operating on a % of capacity have had more.
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By ballcoach15
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I just saw the new CFP poll. I must say that without having time to break down all 25 teams, the crooked committee got 1 of 25 correct. (#1 Alabama)
It's evident those bozos know very little about college football.
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By FlamesHighontheTide
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The fact that San Jose State and Colorado are still in the CFP top 25 and LU is not is highway robbery. For the record, Tulsa should also not be ranked higher than us as well. Rant almost over, Iowa State with 2 losses in 6th?????
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