Quote:Also, Todd did you really say WMU has a good SOS?
Yeah, but in comparison to the other MAC teams who are theoretically capable of winning the MAC for Access Bowl consideration.
Quote:They played Idaho, VT, Murray state, and Purdue in out of conference. Yes, VT beat Ohio state, but has been abysmal since then.
VT was better earlier on, and we played them then. Just like ECU was really great early on, and now they're hobbling. There'll be a few teams that start out not good, but then do well, and vice versa.
Purdue's not a laughing stock -- they played ND close as well as MSU close, and will play teams relatively tough -- they only have 3 wins like NW and Indiana -- they're thought of as a lock to beat for any B1G winning team, but they still have to knock on wood. With their new QB after their first 2 games, they have an O. But at the same token, WMU played THEM when they were worse. :)
NIU's OOC was roughly the same as WMU's (NW/Purdue + Arkansas/VaTech + UNLV/Idaho) -- all 3 teams in the same "class" generally speaking. I shouldn't say NIU's is "poor" and WMU's is "good" though.
In my hasty writing, I was mainly referring to WMU had to play @BGSU in their Mac East which "bumps" it up. Places rank NIU's SoS worse than WMU's by a bit, but I should correct myself -- it's Not a difference of "poor" vs "good" at all for overall schedule. The only thing I see worth a real difference is the @BGSU game having to play, where NIU instead plays Kent. That IS key for conference SoS to predict who's going to win the West, but overall schedule? Not, it's not to make one's whole schedule shift in categories, no.