I have no issue with playing in state FCS schools. We get a win and a tune up (most of the time lol) and they get almost their entire yearly athletic spending taken care of. It's a win/win. I am against playing out of state FCS programs though. It's one game a year.

I do wish as a whole the P5 had to schedule like this.

4 OOC Games:
1. In state FCS opponent.
2. G-5 Program (Doesn't matter who)
3. P-5
4. P-5

3 OOC Games:

1. In State FCS
2. G-5
3. P-5

That way everyone is playing the same amount of P5 opponents. The same amount of G-5 opponents and the same about of FCS opponents. I know it could be argued that some conferences won't have schedule that say the SEC or B1G have in that situation.

I don't care how anyone tries to spin it. Playing an SEC conference schedule if a lot harder than playing an ACC or PAC12 conference schedule. We don't need to make it any easier on them either.

FSU and Clemson are 2 national title contenders and the ACC's best programs. They got to play Auburn (Predicted 4 or 5 in the WEST) and Ole Miss in Florida (Predicted 3rd in the West). LSU the predicted #2 team in the West had to play Wisconsin in Wisconsin lol. Anyone judging the SEC on this 1st week in ridiculous.

Now on to the polls/rankings situation:

Louisville moves up 6 spots by beating the hell out of Charlotte who lost by almost the exact same score to MTSU last season. Wisconsin moves up to #10 from UR by beating LSU, but LSU drops to #21 from #5 by losing by 2 points to Wisconsin in Wisconsin?

Texas wins an overtime game against Notre Dame in Texas and goes from UR to #11.

TCU who struggled with an FCS team for most of their game only drops 2 spots but Tennessee who struggled with a G5 team that was 11-2 last season and predicted to win their conference drops 8 spots?

Here's what I am thinking.

The networks are battling right now.

The writers are all submitting their votes and they are pumping up the teams that are part of their network. Once again, like anything else this is all about money. Fox Sports wants more ranked teams for their games, ESPN wants ranked teams and so on. It is what it is.

Houston looked very dominant against Oklahoma. They moved up to #6. They are the darling of college football right now and G5 fans everywhere will unite to support them. They want to see that (Possible) Undefeated G5 conference champ get into the playoff.

These networks will spin drama like no other to get ratings.

As far as the SEC goes. We need to take care of business this weekend. Everyone knows what they have to do. We get disrespected for playing the hardest opening weekend schedule and they give credit to other conferences when they played a very weak schedule overall.

This will all work itself out. We just need to take care of business from our end.

Would be nice if everyone was playing the same number of P5 games and the same number of home and away games.

Stanford for example this year is playing 11 of their 12 games against P5 opponents with 6 of their 12 games on the road. Actually there are 3 Pac 12 schools playing 11, 4 if you count BYU for UCLA.

I agree that SEC is the toughest league but only 1 SEC school plays 10 or more games against P5 + BYU + ND.

(09-08-2016 12:58 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-08-2016 12:31 AM)murrdcu Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 05:55 PM)vandiver49 Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 04:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(09-06-2016 03:59 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  This week there is Tennessee and Arkansa and nobody else on.

If this had been week #1's schedule and week #1's this week's schedule I don't think we would have lost 7 games. Maybe 4 or 5, but not 7. The tune up is necessary if you aren't going to have 1 preseason game. I still like the idea of eliminating the Spring scrimmage and replacing it with an FCS or small FBS school on the third weekend of August. Then our coaches would have two weeks to work on weaknesses and to fine tune systems running inefficiently. It would also mean better football for the fans when things got started for real.

At least the SEC put themselves out there with a slate of games that could have led to a 'bad' weekend. The B1G has two weeks of MAC contests and quiet as kept don't like to mention that NW who won 10 games last year, lost to Western Michigan.

Let's not forget how much they'll be crying about the SEC scheduling cup cakes the week before rivalry weekend/end of the season. I'm fine with them crying all about that as long as they are kissing our butts for playing P5 opponents during weeks 1 and 2 as well as actual conference games.

The greatest leveler of talent is Week #1. By playing P5 vs P5 in week 1 any P5 has almost a 50/50 shot at winning provided they are up to speed and their opponent isn't. I'd much rather we have the feature one or two match ups in Week 1 and play the normal slate of tune ups because we get truer results later in the season. This mess does two things: Gives the networks a rating bonanza and provides an agenda for early season polls. Neither in my opinion is in the interest of the programs involved.

As to why we pay FCS schools the answer is either direct or payback obligations between states trying to support smaller programs. It's very overt in South Carolina and in Alabama if we don't play in state we play neighboring state FCS schools and then their large schools schedule ours.

I don't love the SEC schools playing FCS, but few fans seems to mind. As these Athletic Departments are designed to generate money and clearly playing these schools pay the freight. If a change is made it should because fans oppose seeing these contests. I damn sure don't want it done in order to appease the B1G and P12.

(09-08-2016 04:54 PM)tcufrog86 Wrote:  Would be nice if everyone was playing the same number of P5 games and the same number of home and away games.

Stanford for example this year is playing 11 of their 12 games against P5 opponents with 6 of their 12 games on the road. Actually there are 3 Pac 12 schools playing 11, 4 if you count BYU for UCLA.

I agree that SEC is the toughest league but only 1 SEC school plays 10 or more games against P5 + BYU + ND.

Well, the conferences themselves aren't balanced.

There is no conference that can go 9-11 deep like the SEC. (Pending the season)

You have 4-5 from the B1G.
3-4 TOPS from the ACC.
3-4-(5*) TOPS from the Big 12.(Pending the season and we'll see what happens to Baylor moving forward)
3-4 TOPS from the Pac12.

So what are we supposed to do? Play 14 of the top 25-30 schedules in the country every year?

I could see why other conferences would want that...

(09-08-2016 06:08 PM)AubTiger16 Wrote:  

(09-08-2016 04:54 PM)tcufrog86 Wrote:  Would be nice if everyone was playing the same number of P5 games and the same number of home and away games.

Stanford for example this year is playing 11 of their 12 games against P5 opponents with 6 of their 12 games on the road. Actually there are 3 Pac 12 schools playing 11, 4 if you count BYU for UCLA.

I agree that SEC is the toughest league but only 1 SEC school plays 10 or more games against P5 + BYU + ND.

Well, the conferences themselves aren't balanced.

There is no conference that can go 9-11 deep like the SEC. (Pending the season)

You have 4-5 from the B1G.
3-4 TOPS from the ACC.
3-4-(5*) TOPS from the Big 12.(Pending the season and we'll see what happens to Baylor moving forward)
3-4 TOPS from the Pac12.

So what are we supposed to do? Play 14 of the top 25-30 schedules in the country every year?

I could see why other conferences would want that...

Like I said before SEC is the best league, but if you are in the SEC East you miss a lot of the top teams if you get lucky in your cross over games.

SEC West schedules right now are indeed very very tough.

Scheduling the way the SEC does is shrewd. Beat a P5 team early and jump up the bowls then stay there becauze you play cupcakes late.