Don't we hear endlessly that it's entirely normal and ok for SEC teams to schedule 3 or more entire pieces of garbage because of how difficult their conf schedule is? And they only play 8 of those. And they end up missing far more of the meat in those slates with how few of their own they really play every year.
I wasn't fully equating the two. I was simply pointing out that FPI and other such lists might also give Oregon less of a bashing for their overall perceived schedule because they do play at least 3 expected high ranked teams.
Again, I'm really not defending their schedule. They get both Stanford and UW at home. They really do have the easiest schedule they could have even imagined. Their toughest road game for the entire season might be Utah?
Maybe Arizona? 
Neither are murderers row. Again, I'm really not defending their schedule. They get both Stanford and UW at home. They really do have the easiest schedule they could have even imagined. Their toughest road game for the entire season might be Utah?
As I said, even if they somehow went undefeated they would have no business even being considered for the top 10, more or less a playoff berth.
I just get why raw number metrics might not have them lower than they should be. That was the only real point.
They are playing a pure garbage schedule.
I'd have to really look at it. There are teams that fall through the cracks every year. The Pac rotation does leave every team missing two from the other division every year, but some miss nearly 40% of their own conference every year which leaves some really hard and some really soft schedules from just that rotation. It just isn't a slam dunk to believe every P5 team plays 4 or more high ranked (or forecasted high ranked teams) every year.
Isn't much of a difference from playing the 100th worse team in FBS from playing the 80th from any real decent team.
That's called setting them up tee ball style. It doesn't get any easier than that. Anywhere. Ever. They have 5 road games: Cal, WSU, Zona, Utah, and the beavs. Cal doesn't scare legit teams right now and that's not a tough place to play a road game. WSU will be breaking in a new QB that's a new transfer student after their presumptive starter for this year committed suicide in the off season. That's a team with issues. Zona has a legit threat QB, but never does put it all together and is now in year one of a new staff. Sumlin might make something happen, but... Utah is tough on the road and that's about it. 
And Ok State and Boise State are not bottom dweller programs.
Again, I'm really not defending their schedule. They get both Stanford and UW at home. They really do have the easiest schedule they could have even imagined. Their toughest road game for the entire season might be Utah?
As I said, even if they somehow went undefeated they would have no business even being considered for the top 10, more or less a playoff berth.
I just get why raw number metrics might not have them lower than they should be. That was the only real point.
They are playing a pure garbage schedule.
Isn't much of a difference from playing the 100th worse team in FBS from playing the 80th from any real decent team.
That said, again there's reasons outside of FPI why Oregon has the largest piece of shit schedule in the P5's.
They get Stanford at home in week 4 very early in the season and get UW at home after their bye week.
It's a complete garbage schedule and I still don't expect them to finish better than 9-3 given their own staff turnover (second straight year) and recent short comings.
There are only 3-4 teams in the Pac that have a chance even at being highly ranked at year end and that's if everything goes well for all of them. Should be better than last year (not hard to beat that mark), but this conference is all kinds of rebuilding all over the place.
Zero chance of that.
