I love the MWC and CUSA fans on here attacking the AAC (just like when it was the Big East) with numbers from computers. The Big East supporters used to show you guys that it was typically 3rd through 5th in the computer rankings for BCS conferences and you attacked it anyway. Now you attempt to defend your own conferences with those same numbers. So what is it? Was the Big East a very underrated football conference or does your conference suck and doesn't deserve any accolades? Inquiring minds want to know!

If the Big East was 3-5 in the BCS Computer rankings then it was well earned (and I am sure there were years when they were ranked that high). If someone was bashing it then I don't think they had much of a leg to stand on.

I was using Colley's site to compare the G5 teams in the running for the access bid. Here is a link to the comparison. I don't necessarily agree with Colley's ratings 100%, but his site does let you look at multiple teams side-by-side.

http://www.colleyrankings.com/scgi-bin/t...&i5=28&s=2

A couple of things to note here.

I think it is between Colorado St. and Boise St. right now, with a small advantage to Boise St.. I don't think that Memphis or Northern Illinois have a shot (too many loses against a weak SOS). Marhshall's SOS is pretty bad too, and could very well keep them out of the access bowl even if they go undefeated. A win against WKU this weekend would help some (WKU was 3-1 OOC and had wins against BGSU, Army, and Navy). What they really need is for LaTech to win vs. Rice. LaTech would be Top 50 in the computer rankings with a win and would be seen as a more quality opponent (vs. playing Rice again).

In the end, I think the MWC is rewarded for being the strongest G5 conference this season and gets the access bowl bid. I think that Marshall is the best G5 team this year, but their schedule (which was a result of UofL moving to the ACC and dropping their game) is going to hurt them in the end.

Boise sos-75. Memphis sos-92. Csu sos-102...........marshall's sos-126. There aren't 126 fbs schools are there?

If Boise losses and csu goes to the ccg and loses memphis or ucf very well could get the nyd6 bowl. Ucf sos is head and shoulders above all the above list teams. Remember sos is far more important than empty wins against teams that can't get your sos above some fcs teams.

Realtime rpi sos-marshall 235. Csu 211. Boise 68. Memphis 165. Ucf 169. So you see outside of an over inflated record that the cfp commitee has already seen mashall's crap sos that the committee has promised to rely by the way has basically put marshall as a longer shot than any of the other teams that are really being looked at. Sorry marshall but these are facts not baseless rantings like you guys shout about allday everyday.

(11-25-2014 12:02 PM)freshtop Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 06:03 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 10:38 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 10:22 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(11-24-2014 08:44 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  Does anyone knows CUSA record against the other G-5 conferences this year since they are our "peers"?

What's thier record against G5 teams with winning records? The beat a schistzo Houston team. Anyone else?

Answer my question first instead of answering a question with a question. And stop trying to make this about Houston. There are many more teams in the AAC besides Houston.

Selective statistics much?

This is one of the most useless statistics CUSA fans have thumped their chest about all year.

What if one conference literally played the 3 worst teams in every conference and won them all. Does that make that conference the best conference in the country?

You guys beat a bunch of terrible G5 teams congratulations. How did you do against P5 teams as a conference?

The G5 as a whole are just very weak this year.

I will agree that it wasn't a great year for G5 vs. P5.

C-USA vs. G5 is skewed a bit because many of the games were against bad G5 teams. There were several that were against pretty decent teams as well.

For example:
Louisiana Tech 48, LA Lafayette 20 (7-4)
Southern Miss 21, Appalachian St 20 (6-5)
UTSA 27, Houston 7 (6-4)
WKU 36, Navy 27 (5-5)
WKU 59, Bowling Green 31 (7-4)

Again, there aren't a ton of "quality" wins in there, but it isn't like this was all done by 2-3 teams either. The entire conference did decent against G5 opponents. 17-4 vs. the G5 (+ Army, Navy, BYU) is not too bad a season.

Yeah, I mean winning is always a great thing and yes I know it was not against a bunch of 2-3 win teams. But again, every single one of those teams with winning records are not very good.

Example ULL was blown out by every non Sun Belt team in FBS they played this year. Houston who was breaking in a lot of new players earlier in the year. You put any of those teams against a decent P5 team and it would likely result in a blow out.

That's why it's silly to say we did this against g5 teams but did not win a single game against P5 is very silly. It's a selective statistic with no real value.