Are those players from 4-5 years ago gonna be allowed to come back and play? All I know is Utah was a very average team last year, and so was Purdue. I also know Utah's win total has declined the last 2 seasons while Purdue has momentum.
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As they should be. With their schedule, Utah has a way better shot of being ranked than Purdue does. However, if you put the two teams on a neutral field, you're looking at a very tight game one way or another.
This is hilarious. Utah's got a tougher conference schedule despite playing in an exponentially weaker conference, gotcha.
This is hilarious. Utah's got a tougher conference schedule despite playing in an exponentially weaker conference, gotcha.
That's really cool that they play 5 road games against bowl teams. How did those teams do? Oh yeah, 4 of them got their shit pushed in and Stanford pulled off the biggest choke job in years. Wow, what a real murderers' row
And we all know that preseason projections of the SOS are really all that matters for how tough a schedule is going to be with 3 LIKELY top 10 teams and 2-3 OTHER possible ranked teams.
This isn't the NFL where that kind of logic entirely holds true. All of the major conferences have overall strength/weakness vs other conferences, but each does their own thing team to team. There isn't one pro style offense and 3-4 types of defenses that are mostly similar. It's entirely wide open and varied. The teams see each other year to year. Purdue rising is a good sign for that program. If they are beating some of the top teams in the conference that too is awesome. It's still not something you can compare directly.
Other than Illinois, those teams could've made bowl teams if they got to face the garbage that plays in the Pac 12 instead of facing the B1G every year.
Are you saying there's a good chance those 3 teams won't be top 10 or that any of the other teams won't be ranked?
Not a single person has said that
Nothing you've said supports any argument. I've never once said Purdue stands up to Utah over the last 4-5 years. I said if Utah won the Pac 12 when they're coming off a 7-6 campaign, it'd be like Purdue winning the B1G coming off a 7-6 campaign. Neither situation would be a good thing at all for these respective conferences, but then again the difference between the top team in the B1G and Purdue and the top team in the Pac 12 and Utah is significant, so fair enough.
The original point was started when I said Utah was a legit test for UW this year. In fact, I personally worry more about that game than Stanford and I'll breath a sigh of relief if they come out of there with a win. They have a top flight defense that gives pretty much everyone fits, their HC has been playing against Petersen for over a decade going back to their G5 days, and it's a very early season road game for UW when Utah is still likely to be at full strength so the advantage that UW has with depth is likely not in play. Add in that Utah plays no one before that game and UW plays Auburn and Utah also has the edge on being able to keep more of their playbook on ice coming into it.
I think you have me confused with someone else. I don't remember talking about Washington's schedule.
No, I'm saying that was the point I originally was making before it went off on this side tangent.
