New Rule? Strength of Schedule....

[Colombie]

There is no way we get in with one loss.

The likelihood of all those teams you list only having one loss is very low in my book.
So there is a way. You just don't want to mention the ways.

 

[kryptonite]

....don't whine or worry about it (as some neurotic weirdos already are based on FSU's dumpster fire) and also be against a Playoff expansion that'd guarantee conference winners a place at the postseason table.

And yessss, I know- win out and we control our destiny. I'd just prefer to never actually have to have a real debate about strength of schedule (especially with the SEC cultists/Big Ten dorks and their media apologists) unless it's for one of three at-large spots in an 8 team Playoff.

I get your point, but I don't think you can eliminate SOS completely as long as you've got people making the final decisions. There will always be judgment calls as to who gets in and who you've beaten is a logical way to make those judgements. If we win out and are ranked 4, the committee could give the final spot to a 1 loss team with "better" wins and I'm not sure they'd be wrong. Put it this way, if we had 1 loss but had dominated everybody else, we'd be yelling about SOS if we lost out to an undefeated team who hadn't played anybody.

SOS shouldn't be a thing as far as who did you play and who did your opponents play and blah blah blah, but big wins (or lack of them) will always be a way of differentiating teams who appear similar and haven't had a chance to play each other. We're humans, we compare things even when the comparisons don't make any sense.

 

[canecat]

+1 Agreed. Plus, the Canes aren't helping themselves out by going with this scheduling philosophy of OOC as 1 Power 5, 2 Group of 5, and 1 FCS.

Better then how the used to schedule where they played like 3 really good teams in the same year and killed their chances to do anything big . The key these days to making the playoffs is having a one or 2 really good teams in the top 10-15 on the schedule like we do ( ND and VT) and then some decent teams ( GT , Toledo ect) and then 4-5 sure fire wins . This isn't 1985 when you wanted to play anyone anywhere . Doing that is a death nil in this era. Bama knows how to schedule as they play one good non con game every year then the SEC .

 

[CaneinBroward]

+1 Agreed. Plus, the Canes aren't helping themselves out by going with this scheduling philosophy of OOC as 1 Power 5, 2 Group of 5, and 1 FCS.

Better then how the used to schedule where they played like 3 really good teams in the same year and killed their chances to do anything big . The key these days to making the playoffs is having a one or 2 really good teams in the top 10-15 on the schedule like we do ( ND and VT) and then some decent teams ( GT , Toledo ect) and then 4-5 sure fire wins . This isn't 1985 when you wanted to play anyone anywhere . Doing that is a death nil in this era. Bama knows how to schedule as they play one good non con game every year then the SEC .

I'm not saying play 3 really strong Power 5 teams OOC either. To me, the ideal would be 1 historically good Power 5 team, 1 average to below average Power 5 team (i.e. Vandy, Kentucky, Kansas, etc.), and 2 Group of 5 teams. Unless the ACC finally goes to a 9 game conference schedule. Then, 1 Power 5 and 2 Group of 5 OOC.

 

[Gatorhater]

Win them all, that is all...

True but in the SEC it's "Lose one....we'll still treat it like you lost none!'"

That is an unfair truth. What has been loss is the whole idea of winning. Now a committee decides what teams as the "BEST" instead of which four have "WON" a playoff spot. If that concept was in place and carried to in logical conclusion during our glory years we won somewhere around 20 NCs. I mean we were the best team in all but our first NC game. TN, PSU, AL, OSU might have beaten us but we were the best team. Who was better than the Cotton Bowl team that destroyed UT? Was ND better than us the year they won? What about OU the year we beat them and they won the title? If you don't win your conference you have no business advancing to the playoffs. The field of play must speak the loudest.