CBS Sports: Breaking Down the Big Ten Schedules

NUinID said:
NUpolo8 said:
QMany said:
NUpolo8 said:
QMany said:
I thought we were supposed to have a cupcake schedule this year according to some HB experts.
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Do you think it's a particularly tough schedule?
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I do think it is challenging, and it is certainly more challenging than some wish to believe.
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Possibly.

Florida Atlantic

McNeese st

Illinois

Purdue

Rutgers

Fresno St (this could be tougher than expected but several here have been awfully dismissive of them)

So there is all but a guaranteed bowl eligibility section right there.

Minnesota, Northwestern and Iowa.

-all games I would say 98% of the people here expect to win (and rightly so, IMO.). So let's just say they beat Minnesota and Iowa. There's 8 wins.

Wisconsin, Michigan St, and the potential CCG or bowl game.

--and there's why Bo is paid three plus mil a year. And how 2014 should be judged. Does he beat those two teams? Does the team get to the CCG? Are they in good bowl or are we trumpeting another gator bowl trophy?
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You act like this schedule is way easier than Wisconsin's or say Alabama's. All good to great schools schedules look like this.
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I don't harbor any illusion that those two schools have insanely tough schedules.

This thread is about how toughs Nebraska's may be according to a preseason poll. I don't particularly agree for the reasons I listed.

 
QMany said:
NUpolo8 said:
This thread is about how toughs Nebraska's may be according to a preseason poll.
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QMany said:
Note: Based on the old BCS SOS formula using last year's data for current year opponents. The SOS ranking is overall for all 128 FBS schools.
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Right. In the preseason. I would assume this is all fluid and subject to move either up or down based on 2014 performance.

Take for example, the record of Fresno at last year and what they're projected to be this year.

 
NUpolo8 said:
QMany said:
NUpolo8 said:
QMany said:
I thought we were supposed to have a cupcake schedule this year according to some HB experts.
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Do you think it's a particularly tough schedule?
Click to expand...
I do think it is challenging, and it is certainly more challenging than some wish to believe.
Click to expand...
Possibly.
Florida Atlantic

McNeese st

Illinois

Purdue

Rutgers

Fresno St (this could be tougher than expected but several here have been awfully dismissive of them)

So there is all but a guaranteed bowl eligibility section right there.

Minnesota, Northwestern and Iowa.

-all games I would say 98% of the people here expect to win (and rightly so, IMO.). So let's just say they beat Minnesota and Iowa. There's 8 wins.

Wisconsin, Michigan St, and the potential CCG or bowl game.

--and there's why Bo is paid three plus mil a year. And how 2014 should be judged. Does he beat those two teams? Does the team get to the CCG? Are they in good bowl or are we trumpeting another gator bowl trophy?

EDIT:

my bad, I left Miami off. You should probably lump that one with MSU and Wisconsin. Marquee OOC game and it would be a very good thing if NU won that game.
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Add in Miami to our non-con schedule as a game to watch.

Looking at our schedule without comparing it to other teams' will not result in a very fruitful debate about SOS. We definitely have a harder conference (and overall) schedule than most of the other teams in the B1G (and the other 128 FBS teams), which is what the SOS allows us to compare.

 
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It is not "according to a preseason poll." Preseason polls have nothing to do with the 18th ranked SOS mentioned in the article.

 
sd'sker said:
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Polo, what would be an example of a tough schedule by your metric?
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i am guessing a schedule where it would be unlikely to get 8 wins. maybe a schedule where you would likely be favored in less than 7 games?
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I asked for an example not an ideology that is flawed because it is more likely to get more wins the better your team is
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QMany said:
It is not "according to a preseason poll." Preseason polls have nothing to do with the 18th ranked SOS mentioned in the article.
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It's an assessment of a schedules difficulty based on the records of the teams on said schedule the previous year. Before the season starts. What I'm getting at is it's not a fixed rating. It will move based on performance of the current season. Once it starts. Because we are in the preseason, you see.

 
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
sd'sker said:
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Polo, what would be an example of a tough schedule by your metric?
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i am guessing a schedule where it would be unlikely to get 8 wins. maybe a schedule where you would likely be favored in less than 7 games?
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I asked for an example not an ideology that is flawed because it is more likely to get more wins the better your team is
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the relative toughness of a schedule is contingent upon how good a team you are.

 
sd'sker said:
QMany said:
Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
Polo, what would be an example of a tough schedule by your metric?
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Tough SOS = every one but Nebraska. Easy SOS = Nebraska.

Math, its that objective.
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i think polo's point is who cares about other teams' schedules. what should we think about our schedule. he demonstrated that we should pretty easily get 8 wins. do you disagree?
talk about false dichotomies.
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The definition of false dichotomy is going to take up 21 pages in the dictionary if this continues.

 
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