Umm this is not the last week of OOC games. Some teams play OOC games late in the season.
I don't care about November bye weeks but OOC cupcakes in November are bullshit.
The SEC should be called out on that shit yearly. Florida and Georgia at least play respectable opponents but directional U in November is bush league.
If you believe playing FCS teams in November is a big deal, then complain to your schools for not doing the same.
Just curious, which conference has played the most P5 schools and could you put it as a percentage also? Because the SEC, B1G and ACC have 14 schools their numbers would be skewed over the Big 12.
Something like the SEC has played 10 Power 5 schools and the winning teams are XYZ, and they have won 80% of them.
For all I know the SEC either played five Power 5 and won four games, or they played 25 Power 5 schools and won 20.
Could you list who won? B1G is easy, Rutgers.
If you took a closer look at the fairness of the matchups, almost all the leagues perform exactly as suspected based on fairness of matchup. There is an almost perfect statistical flow. Leagues dominate their own mismatches, lose as heavy dogs, and have uneven results in fair matchups.
This holds true for almost every conference.
The only leagues who don't have the predicted outcomes are the SEC and Big 10.
The overachieving SEC has a very small sample size, so they are incomplete.
The underachieving Big 10 probably just had a flukishly bad season.
SEC - 80%
Pac 12 - 71%
ACC - 66%
Big 12 - 44%
MAC - 20%
AAC - 18%
Mtn West - 13%
Missouri Valley - 13%
B1G - 9%
Sun Belt - 9%
CUSA - 0%
Games of note this week:
Auburn @ Kansas State
Iowa @ Pitt
Maryland @ Syracuse
Indiana @ Missouri
Utah @ Michigan
Miami @ Nebraska
Also the first big week of conference play begins. Looking forward to another great weekend.
Colorado didn't play a P5 ooc
Update:
SEC: 5-1 for a 83% winning percentage
Big 12: 4-6 for a 40% winning percentage
To my knowledge the Big 12 has no more OOC games against P5 competition left.
this is one reason I hate these stats. 3 of the 6 came against top 5 teams. There is no context. People who watched the games were pleasantly surprised by the the play of OSU, WV, and KSU, but that is not reflected in a 0-3 record. If it was Bama v OU, then just look at the record. Conversely, OU pounding Tenn doesnt really speak much about the quality of the SEC vs the Big 12 either. Stats can be telling, but they are meaningless only you get the context
The Big 12 teams did play great in three of losses to top 5 teams. It wasn't meant to disparage the Big 12 it was just what the stat was.