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Who were Miami & Wisconsin playing while Georgia & Alabama took the day to pick on the little guys.I give AL credit for scheduling a tough game first on the schedule before going to their easy peasy games. Most schools do schedule patsies the first game or two. Gives teams a chance to iron out some problems.Exactly! But RealDave doesn't care about accuracy. He just wants to slam the best.
But this time in the season? They should be penalized as other closely ranked teams played real opponents. Sometimes you can't help a conference gme against an easy team but yto go outside for this? AL should be bumped to at least 3 or 4th.
*sigh* Okay, apparently this is not penetrating to your gray matter for some reason... Every Power 5 Conference team in America schedules by the exact same template. For many years, this was not the case and people could legitimately argue as you are, that some teams played cupcakes, etc. Since we've moved toward the playoff system, the structure of scheduling has been established so as to put everyone on a somewhat equal ground.
If you pay attention, every P5 school plays 8 conference games and 4 non-conference games with one bye week. The 8 conference games are preset, there is nothing the school can do to change that. The only area the school has any control over is the non-conference opponents. Of those 4 games, one is usually an FCS (Div I-A) team. Go look at ANY schedule of a team in a Power 5 Conference and you will find this is true. You may have a rare exception due to the fact that scheduling conflicts happen sometimes.
Because the playoffs are now being decided by committee, teams who seriously hope to compete for a spot are aware of strength of scheduling criteria and they generally attempt to schedule some quality non-conference opponents.
You can stop the biullshit. AL & GA should be reduced while teams that played ranked opponents won should move ahead.
Miami's 4 non-cons were: Notre Dame, Bethune-Cookman (FCS), Toledo and Arkansas State (which was cancelled due to weather.)
Wisconsin had 3 non-cons and an extra bye week. Utah State, Florida Atlantic, BYU.
Georgia's non-cons were: Notre Dame, Ga. Tech, App. St. and Samford (FCS).
Alabama's non-cons: Florida St., Fresno St., Colorado St. and Mercer (FCS).
Now... the BULLSHIT that needs to stop is YOURS! It's not possible for all the "good" teams to play only other "good" teams the same weekend throughout the year for what should be blatantly obvious reasons, if you're not an absolute moron.
When did Miami & Wisconsin play those teanms.
Most not-chickenshit schools play non conference teams early & then go into conference play. Most non chickenshit teams, if they play a non conference school late, will try for a traditionally tough school to beef up their standings. If beating quality teams up your standing, then playing cupcakes should detract. That simple.
Well, both Wisconsin and Miami have only played 2 teams each that were ranked when they played them. They also have the same number of cupcakes Alabama has played.
But Alabama has played 3 teams that were ranked when they played them.
So if tougher schedules is what you want, Bama has played it.