AlaskaGuy
Throbbing Member
The PAC teams averaged 10.25 regular season games vs P5 opponents last season. The SEC averaged 9 regular season games vs P5 opponents last season. USC and Stanford play ND home & away every year get SC managed to play Bama last season and they will play Texas this year. Stanford played at Kansas State last year while playing ND like they alway do. These are teams that play a 9 game conference schedule.PAC12 and Big12 teams have 9 conference games and the overwhelming majority have no problem scheduling FCS teams so why would the SEC have trouble with it? 30% of the conference already scheduled two quality OOC games against P5 teams. We would be losing Georgia vs Notre Dame not Georgia vs Samford. For the other 70% of the teams we would be losing games against Sunbelt or MACtion games. Those conference games may give a slightly better view of who is better IN conference, but I highly doubt that given the SEC East is runny, hot garbage but we lose valuable data when it comes to who is better when it comes to comparing teams out of conference. If you want to know who is the top four teams for the playoffs we need more out of conference games against P5 opponents, not less, so we have a much better chance because we can compare like opponents. (Yes the transitive property isn't exact but at least it gives us some vision).