College Football Thread

[Jackalope]

They key word being rankings. They are decided by humans who naturally have some bias one way or another. IMO, if it's gonna be rankings, you have to increase the field to increase the chance the most deserving teams get a shot

If the human factor in rankings is the problem then why spread the problem and expand the rankings. Keep the 4 and do it all by computer with stats.

1. Don't rank anyone until week 4.
2. Ranking is done purely by stats.
3. Weight the rankings like they do with SOS. E.g. A loss to an unranked hurts 3x a loss to a top 10.

Do that and we'll have a quality top 4

 

["J"]

Fine...I’ll have a beer. Pure pressure...can’t watch college ball without one! Cheers fellas.

I’d like to see LSU win this one.

And KY stomp a mud hole in Penn State. Up by 10 ain’t gonna cut it. Need to stretch that out by another 90 or so points.

3 points actually

 

[giles]

3 points actually

 

["J"]

View attachment 70657

Don’t get your knickers in a wad....

 

[giles]

Don’t get your knickers in a wad....

.....trebek

 

[Redhunter1012]

If the human factor in rankings is the problem then why spread the problem and expand the rankings. Keep the 4 and do it all by computer with stats.

1. Don't rank anyone until week 4.
2. Ranking is done purely by stats.
3. Weight the rankings like they do with SOS. E.g. A loss to an unranked hurts 3x a loss to a top 10.

Do that and we'll have a quality top 4

So then nobody will schedule anybody eith a pulse out of conference. Thats kinda how the sec gets thir SOS up. Schedule shi team out of conference early on. Schedule the wait staff of Bob Evans to a football contest the next to last week of the regular season. That way they all get easy W's and pad that SOS

 

[giles]

Well then LSU...pick yourself back up and let’s go!

 

[giles]

Congrats LSU

Congrats KY

 

[Jackalope]

Fucking Kentucky. Really? I mean really? This is the same penn st that the bucks struggled so bad with and beat by only a point. . Lost to fuckin Kentucky.

 

[Jackalope]

So then nobody will schedule anybody eith a pulse out of conference. Thats kinda how the sec gets thir SOS up. Schedule shi team out of conference early on. Schedule the wait staff of Bob Evans to a football contest the next to last week of the regular season. That way they all get easy W's and pad that SOS

That's not how strength of schedule works. This is a national SOS ranking done via stats.

 

[Redhunter1012]

Not sure i follow then? It's based on your opponents W/L and their opponents W/L, correct? So if the majority of your opponents, the SEC conference, schedule some cupcakes out of conference and beat them, then that by and large helps your SOS tremendously, right? And id said cupcakes wind some games in their intramural leagues, that helps too.

 

[Jackalope]

Not sure i follow then? It's based on your opponents W/L and their opponents W/L, correct? So if the majority of your opponents, the SEC conference, schedule some cupcakes out of conference and beat them, then that by and large helps your SOS tremendously, right? And id said cupcakes wind some games in their intramural leagues, that helps too.

I posted how its calculated earlier in the thread. Far more advanced than that. And scheduling cupcakes hurts your SOS since that would be the opposite of strength of schedule. Lol

 

[Clay Showalter]

Well that will shut up the UCF fans

 

[hickslawns]

Nice win for Iowa. Penn State fought back but didn't quite get it done against the 10 win SEC team. Congrats on a great season UK. LSU looked good. UCF. . . .lol.

 

[Redhunter1012]

Well that will shut up the UCF fans

Why would it? They played damn good with an arm punt for a QB. I think if Makenzie Milton was healthy and was behind center, they probably win by a couple scores. And they beat big, bad Auburn in a bowl game last year. If anything, it shows they should get a chance

 

[Redhunter1012]

No opinions or voting at all. It's all numbers.

SOS is calculated by determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponentsand the cumulative won/loss records of the teams' opponents' opponents. The formula shall be weighted two-third (66 2/3%) for the opponent's record and one-third (33 1/3%) for the opponents' opponents record. The team's schedule strength shall be calculated to determine in which quartile it will rank: 1-25, 26-50; 51-75; 76-100 and shall be further quantified by its ranking within each quartile (divided by 25). For example, if a team's schedule strength rating is 28th in the nation, that team would receive 1.12 points (28/25 = 1.12). Should a team play a Division I-AA opponent, only the losses of the Division I-AA team shall be used in determining the opponent's record or the opponent's opponents' record

"I posted how its calculated earlier in the thread. Far more advanced than that. And scheduling cupcakes hurts your SOS since that would be the opposite of strength of schedule. Lol"


Doesn't seem to advanced. By your explanation above, it's all based on win/loss. To me, it seems if basically the majority of you opponents (the SEC) pad their schedule with easy wins against the local YMCA intramural football squads, then their SOS will be better. It's really ingenius by the whole conference.

 

[Redhunter1012]

If they schedule a middle of the road team like a UT Chattanooga who goes 8-4 in their piddly conference, their schedule gets a helluva boost

 

[Clay Showalter]

Why would it? They played damn good with an arm punt for a QB. I think if Makenzie Milton was healthy and was behind center, they probably win by a couple scores. And they beat big, bad Auburn in a bowl game last year. If anything, it shows they should get a chance

It will shut them up saying they should be the playoffs this year and last year.

 

[OhioWhiteTails]

Ok on to the next game. Predictions on the Georgia matchup?

 

[Redhunter1012]

So them beating almighty Auburn last after going undefeated, the going undefeated this year and nearly beating LSU without their QB, who is one of the best players in the country, proves they shouldn't have made the playoffs?

Imo, it backs up my belief there should be at a minimum of an 8 team playoff