SEC Scheduling

[Bishop2b5]

Recruiting and signing talent is one thing. Developing and keeping it is another. Butch sucked at developing and keeping the talent he signed. Pruitt inherited a hot mess on so many different levels and doesn't have a lot to work with yet. I think they'll start to be competitive next year and actually be pretty good by 2020. As Irishog mentioned, he does have a rep for being a difficult asshole, though. We'll see how it works out.

 

[ACamp1900]

Recruiting and signing talent is one thing. Developing and keeping it is another.

Top 25 talent year after year though??? It's crazy to wrap my mind around how many things had to have gone wrong for it to get to this...

 

[Legacy]

Updated Conference records vs. non-conference P5 teams (SEC w-l numbers revised). SEC is still dominant.

SEC - 6-3 - 1 loss to ND (Vandy); no further games against ND
Big 10 - 7-6 - 1 loss to ND (Mich); 1 more game (NW) against ND
Big 12 - 4-6 (did not play any games against ND)
Pac 12 - 3-5 - 1 loss to ND (Stanford); 1 more game (USC) against ND
ACC 3-8 - 2 losses to ND (Wake Forest, Va Tech); 3 (Pitt, Syr, Florida St) more games against ND
Notre Dame - 5-0

Total 28-28

If ND were a conference, we would be winning the non-conference P5 scheduling.

 

[Legacy]

With the last week of the regular season upcoming, here are the updated P5 interconference records.

SEC - 6-3
Big 10 - 7-7
Big 12 - 4-6
Pac 12 - 3-5
ACC - 3-11 (5 losses to ND)
ND - 9-0

Remaining P5 teams' interconference games:
Florida - Florida State
Georgia - Georgia Tech
Kentucky - Louisville
South Carolina - Clemson
Notre Dame - USC

 

[irishtrain]

The point remains, that outside of them doing a home-and-home against shitty pedo state teams, saban does not travel for games, and does not play away games out of conference.

You're correct in that the actual difficulty of opponents varies from year to year, but saban is purposefully controlling variables of difficulty by specifically not traveling far and specifically not going to a campus to play away games, ooc.

I don't like it and agree with you the fact remains that their on the field product allows this ---once again try Notre Dames schedule on for size and see how tough it is. They allow this because its a championship team double standard and it stinks. My question this year is this-everyone says this is his pinnacle team and will win it all--if they don't did he choke our blow it-no one ever asks that question of the greatest coach of all time -not sure if he's even the best coach in college ball today. Try Kelly's schedule/weather challenges/varied offenses one game super bowl season for the opposition and get back to me.

 

[Legacy]

Happy for SE La, Lamar, Tenn-Chat, NW St, SE Mo St for cashing in and non-P5s Kent State, Ark St, Colo St who have one win between them against another non-P5.

But that leaves just three SEC games - Ala-SC, Ms St-K St, Florida-Kty.

 

[Legacy]

2020 Schedule

SEC teams have three away games outside of the South including Texas.
- Arkansas at ND on Sept 12
- Tennessee at Okla on Sept 12
- Vanderbilt at K State on Sept 19
- Missouri at BYU on Oct 10

Florida does not leave the state for any out of conference games.

South Carolina plays three games within the state - Coastal Carollna, Wofford, and Clemson with the fourth OOC game with East Carolina (in NC).

The fourteen SEC teams play fifteen Power Five teams. Only Ga plays two. Each play a FCS team.

 

[NDRock]

2020 Schedule

SEC teams have three away games outside of the South including Texas.
- Arkansas at ND on Sept 12
- Tennessee at Okla on Sept 12
- Vanderbilt at K State on Sept 19
- Missouri at BYU on Oct 10

Florida does not leave the state for any out of conference games.

South Carolina plays three games within the state - Coastal Carollna, Wofford, and Clemson with the fourth OOC game with East Carolina (in NC).

The fourteen SEC teams play fifteen Power Five teams. Only Ga plays two. Each play a FCS team.

I think Florida has left the state once in the last 25 years or so. It’s amazing how regional college football is today.

 

[Circa]

2020 Schedule

SEC teams have three away games outside of the South including Texas.
- Arkansas at ND on Sept 12
- Tennessee at Okla on Sept 12
- Vanderbilt at K State on Sept 19
- Missouri at BYU on Oct 10

Florida does not leave the state for any out of conference games.

South Carolina plays three games within the state - Coastal Carollna, Wofford, and Clemson with the fourth OOC game with East Carolina (in NC).

The fourteen SEC teams play fifteen Power Five teams. Only Ga plays two. Each play a FCS team.

How can anyone including ESPN, rate teams that never leave the south? How can any player think they are the best when you've never experienced cold weather.
LSU has a dome so they can pump air conditioning in. WEAK ASS Scheduling and It shows In the NFL.
Ohio State does some similar stuff with their out of conference BS schedule. It's something that an 8-12 team playoff would alleviate.
South comes north, North goes south. Let's single out the real weaknesses of each team.
I guarantee those boys In Baton Rouge/ Tuscaloosa/ Mississippi/ Florida don't know why Under Armor became popular, let alone why they need to wear it in cold weather.

 

[ACamp1900]

I think Florida has left the state once in the last 25 years or so. It’s amazing how regional college football is today.

It’s less regional than ever,... and then there’s SEC

 

[Legacy]

SEC teams FBS out of conference 2020 schedule

SEC teams FBS out of conference 2020 schedule

Opponents ranked by F/+ (updated 1/6/20). Ranking within the 130 FBS teams in parentheses.

Every SEC team plays one Power Five team except Georgia who plays two (Virginia and Ga Tech). Eliminating the P5 and FCS opponents:

East
Ga - U. Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) (96)
Mo - Louisiana (Lafayette) (27), E. Mich (94)
Vandy - La Tech (60), Colo St (95)
Tenn - Charlotte (91), Troy (92)
Kentucky - E.Mich (94), Kent State (107)
Fla - S. Ala (118), NM St (125)
S. Carolina - Coastal Carolina (110), E. Carolina (117)

West
Miss St - Tulane (48), New Mexico (122)
Aub - S. Miss (78), UMass (130)
A&M - Fresno St (82), N.Texas (102)
Alabama - Ga Southern (87), Kent State (107)
Ole Miss - Ga S. (87), UConn (126)
Ark - ULM (96), Kent State (107)
LSU - Rice (120), UTSA (124)

Using the Efficiency rankings and for 2019 teams can be criticized. Some may prefer another ranking measure like Sagarin's Predictive. Scheduling may have been done more than a year in advance.

That said, out of the twenty-seven SEC out of conference opponents, who are not P5 or FCS schools, only four are better than 82nd. Thirteen opponents - almost half - are ranked in the bottom thirty FBS teams (100-130). All twenty-seven games are at home.