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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1017293; said:
This came up today with a friend.. we were both astonished to find that SC beat 2 teams with winning records this year. TWO... What was Cowherd saying about SC last week?
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Yea this actually came up in a conversation with me and PSU buddy over the weekend and I couldn't believe it...I actually had to look it up. I just can't believe you still hear the media praising them saying they are "the best team in the country right now and they are playing perfectly". Well when your playing against teams with losing schedules, it's hard not to.
 
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The Big Ten needs every team to rethink its scheduling and performance against OOC opponents next year. Scheduling FCS teams and bottom dwellers in the FBS and, worse yet, losing to them, has hurt Big Ten teams badly this year.

If you think about this as a modeling exercise, by the time teams enter conference play, SOS has largely determined the power rating of a team. Teams that have played weak SOS OOC schedules are going to have lower SOS, because margin of victory has much less weighting in models.

All of this means that, a victory over a team that has established a low SOS in OOC play, does little to help Big Ten teams improve their own power ratings in the BCS. Outside the computers, this affects pollsters as well. The result longer term is that great recruits will choose to play elsewhere.

Big Ten coaches need to make sure that they discuss this candidly in their conference meetings after the season. Conference teams must be ready for their bowl games this year and their OOC schedule next year.
 
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I don't know what formula medic's post is based on, but here is the SOS formula that the BCS used to include:

Ohio State: 50
LSU: 10
VaTech: 9
Oklahoma: 34
Georgia: 33
Missouri: 12
USC: 64
Kansas: 79
West Virginia: 40
Hawaii: 120
 
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Even so, the point was that we get absolutely railed for our SOS, but the fact that the team that most people would choose to replace us in the NCG has a worse SOS than we do is completely ignored by the media.
 
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methomps;1017505; said:
I thought you wanted to be disrespected.
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I want our guys to come out hungry and motivated. If disrespect from the media is the easiest/best way to accomplish this, then by all means. But mentioning that USC's SOS sucked worse than ours doesn't mean people aren't disrespecting us. It just means that people are actually looking objectively at the situation.
 
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