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Old 11-21-2018, 02:32 AM   #342
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Originally Posted by Seph View Post
LOL doesn't matter when an SEC team gets a bye week against whogivesafuckstate? Jesus Christ, UCF plays whogivesafuckstate at least 10 of their 12 games.
Part of that was the whole hay made out of the thing a few years back where most of your 1-A schools would play a slack team or some 1-AA handshake game that acted as the collegic version of a preseason. This somehow hurt that almighty "strength of schedule" factor that was getting more and more weight, so a bunch of schools started having week 1 matchups with other marquee schools (this was also around the time everyone was trying to make dual division conferences with an actual championship game at the end of the season instead of declairing the team with the best schedule the winner.) Meanwhile, the SEC just started frontloading the confrence schedule and playing all the puff teams late season.

You can only play who is in front of you, though, and while UCF isn't regularly going up against teams like Texas or USC or Penn St, it isn't like they haven't earned the right to try.

There is too much "factoring" in trying to guestimate who would make a better matchup/generate more revenue. For all anyone knows, UCF could run the table and shock everyone. We'll never know, because they lack the name brand recognition for us to find out. They could go undefeated next year, too, and unless a lot of the big boys drop three games - a super unlikely scenario - they will never be able to climb into the playoff picture. They, or anyone like them, will always be just outside the threshold.
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