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Will CU leaving hurt Texass 10 sos?

rodrigo

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Here's an interesting thought: given that CU annually plays one of the toughest - if not the toughest - OOC sked among the Big 12, AND (here I quote Stewart Mandel) CU leaving for the PAC 10 "eliminates one of the few teams that could strengthen the league's BCS-to-cupcake ratio in nonconference games," maybe we've found a new way to f*** the 'Horns...
 
I'm sure Kansas State will pick up the slack and schedule a school with an actual football team.
 
Anyway you can photoshop all the Big Tex conference teams with Cupcakes on their logos?
 
Now that you mention it, i'm not sure how strenght of schedule works. If we play a challenging OOC schedule, but still go 3-9, can we actually affect someone's SOS positively? The tough part isn't scheduling--anybody can do that--it's actually showing up.

This feels desperate? Is this desperate? Can we please just have a good ****ing team again?
 
Now that you mention it, i'm not sure how strenght of schedule works. If we play a challenging OOC schedule, but still go 3-9, can we actually affect someone's SOS positively? The tough part isn't scheduling--anybody can do that--it's actually showing up.

This feels desperate? Is this desperate? Can we please just have a good ****ing team again?

Doesn't necessarily matter how CU finishes. If Cal and UGA have 7, 8, 9 win seasons it'll help the Big XII SOS.
 
Doesn't necessarily matter how CU finishes. If Cal and UGA have 7, 8, 9 win seasons it'll help the Big XII SOS.

Take that Texas! We made 'em our bitches didn't we? Who's laughing now, mother****ers?
 
Except SOS doesn't even factor into the BCS rankings anymore. Well, indirectly maybe through some of the computer rankings, but each ranking system is different and no one really knows what the net effect is. Billingsley only takes into account a team's opponents, and not opponents' opponents, so the years we don't play Texas it wouldn't even matter. Sagarin doesn't even divulge his formula.

The only reason they announce the team/conference SOS's is for smack talk purposes, AFAICT.

I think Walrus is right, you're grasping at straws.
 
Actually, in the grander scheme of things you're probably right. The only way it might come into play would be if there was no clear-cut pairing in the title game and you had a debate, say between a one-loss Texas (that in lieu of a win or two over Nebraska or CU rolled all over another OOC cupcake) and an undefeated Boise to play opposite a hypothetical undefeated Ohio State.

Instead of grasping at straws, however, I prefer to think of just another reason to feel good about leaving for the PAC 10.
 
Does our leaving hurt their SOS? Questionable, even doubtful.

Does it hurt their BCS standings? As of next year, oh yeah, it sure as hell does, unless they can get some more teams to join.

From the BCS's website:

Conference membership | Adjustment
12 or more member | no adjustment
10 or 11 members | points increased by 12.5 percent
9 or fewer members | points increased by 25 percent
* The computations will be made according to the conference's membership on Dec. 4, 2011.
 
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