Overrated Conferences

[10HtownRebs]

ACC is garbage. Smu has beaten nobody and yet is ranked 8th in the nation? Clemson is garbage this year as well. Why these two are so overrated is beyond me.

Clemson bout to get clobbered.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

There is no logical reason to need to schedule OOC games 10 years out. Take it from the schools and have an independent body schedule them at year end. Force all conferences to have a 9 game schedule. Problem solved.

 

[Ron G]

Re-read what you have written! So your team schedules ONE historically strong team every 5 to 8 years? Why not every year?

From 1990 through 2024 (THAT'S 35 YEARS) Wisconsin has played 120 OOC games. Of those 120 games, 4 were against top 5 teams, 7 were against top 10 teams, and 14 were against top 25 teams (final polls). If Wisconsin had scheduled ONE "historically strong team" every year and one of them fell every 5 to 8 years then Wisconsin would have played ranked OOC teams either 4 out of 5 seasons or 7 out of 8 years. That would mean that over 35 years Wisconsin would have played 4/5x35 = 28 ranked teams or 7/8*35= 30.6 or 31 ranked teams.

Including this year (1990-2024, 35 years) Florida has played 121 OOC games. Of those 121 opponents 15 were ranked in the top 5, 20 were ranked in the top 10, and 32 were against top 25 teams. There are 6 teams that have played more top 25 teams OOC than Florida!

ND did not only schedule a historically strong team every 5 to 8 years. They had had at least 3 every year and those were scheduled 5 to 8 years earlier. Frist and foremost, no FCS teams (except in 2023 to their everlasting embarrassment) every year they had two or three Big 10 teams (Michigan and Michigan State often, Ohio State, Wisconsin) Florida State and Miami, Georgia Tech (prior to the truncated ACC schedule now in effect) and recently an SEC team (LSU, Texas A& M and others). In addition, Southern Cal and Standford (Standford down the last 4 years but better than competitive for the 20 years before 2020).
Added is a MAC team and Navy. Except for the MAC team these have all been home and home agreements.
So stop with the one tough team every 5 to8 years.

 

[PIBuckeye]

ND did not only schedule a historically strong team every 5 to 8 years. They had had at least 3 every year and those were scheduled 5 to 8 years earlier. Frist and foremost, no FCS teams (except in 2023 to their everlasting embarrassment) every year they had two or three Big 10 teams (Michigan and Michigan State often, Ohio State, Wisconsin) Florida State and Miami, Georgia Tech (prior to the truncated ACC schedule now in effect) and recently an SEC team (LSU, Texas A& M and others). In addition, Southern Cal and Standford (Standford down the last 4 years but better than competitive for the 20 years before 2020).
Added is a MAC team and Navy. Except for the MAC team these have all been home and home agreements.
So stop with the one tough team every 5 to8 years.

I don’t consider MAC teams cupcakes.
They’ve beaten much bigger programs many times. It’s respectable ooc game.

 

[Ron G]

I don’t consider MAC teams cupcakes.
They’ve beaten much bigger programs many times. It’s respectable ooc game.

I don't consider them cupcakes either. I do however, put FCS teams into that category. Which is always my position (with an ND bias) that SEC team with one loss (and no championship) is not better with an 11 -1 should be rated higher be higher. One of those victories is always against an FCS (Mercer, Charleston Southern, Citadel, etc.).
But head-to-head always trumps SOS when teams have the same won loss records. Except in the Playoffs where head-to-head trumps everything.
If Clemson wins the CPF they are the legitimate champion.

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

No shit? Who has smu beaten btw? They played two ranked teams all year. Lost both.

Shocker shocker. Smu getting bitch slapped again. 0-3 against ranked teams now. Tell me I was wrong about them now.

 

[Picklerick 2.0]

ACC is garbage. Smu has beaten nobody and yet is ranked 8th in the nation? Clemson is garbage this year as well. Why these two are so overrated is beyond me.

Not looking good Awful Crap Conference.