(03-20-2018 03:17 PM)pesik Wrote: (03-20-2018 02:10 PM)TU4ever Wrote: Temple finished 9th last year. Cincy the 2 team last year is their travel partner. So if there were no travel groupings Temple would have played the #12 team 2x (USF) however that second game was swapped with Cincy as two paired teams. USF's missed game is moved to UCF because they are travel partners which is why UCF and Houston only played once.
If they aren't using past standings as the basis then explain why Houston, who was picked 9th preseason, had so many home and homes with the top 5?
If you think they are just willy nilly going around throwing together any kind of scheduling then you really don't know much about college athletics.
The travel pairs give them flexibility like dropping USF off for Cincy with Temple. That's where they try and guess to set up better matches.
The matches are based geographically for travel and rivalry considerations. Memphis could have been matched to Cincinnati, Wichita, Tulsa, SMU, or Tulane. They chose Tulane because Memphis was expected to be down. Cincy was given Temple because Temple was suppose to be up. Wichita will always be paired with Tulsa, USF will always be paired with UCF because of rivalry. Work out from there and it's easy to see the pattern.
Texas schools, Florida schools, two on the mississippi, the only pairing that was hard is the group of UConn, Cincy, Temple, and who ever is left gets ECU.
houston was picked 6th not 9th... and we lucked out..ucf was projected one of the best teams we only got them once....houston finished higher than ucf, ucf got a harder conference schedule
"willy nilly" not willy nilly ...based on projections and tv matchups (big names/rivalries)
you assume i dont know much about college athletics when all your statements make me question if you do..
getting many teams is huge for the league money wise and perception wise...ou are arguing that they arent strategic with the scheduling and are using some arbitrary formula based on last years finish..thats blind to think that..
lets not debate this, im 100% sure ucf will get a harder schedule than tulsa..we can revisit this when the schedule is released
As opposed to basing a schedule on media/coaches predictions done right before the season? Considering the schedule is made a good deal before that. Who is clueless here?
Last year's performance is as good as any other predictor for a future team since injury, discipline problems, and teams just underperforming happen all the time.
UCF will struggle to have a harder schedule than Tulsa simply because UCF will always have 2 games vs USF and we will always have 2 vs WSU.
2018-2019 Schedule:
Cincy will play Houston, Tulsa, Wichita, and Temple for sure. Then they should also have SMU, USF and UConn. They will get Tulane, Memphis, SMU, and UCF once.
Wichita will play Tulsa, Cincy, and Houston twice. They should have home and homes with USF, SMU, Tulane, and ECU. They will play UConn, Memphis, Temple, and UCF once.
Houston will have Tulsa, Cincy, Wichita, SMU at home for sure. They should have UCF, Memphis and UConn for home and home as well. They will play ECU, Tulane, USF, and Temple once.
Tulsa will play home and home with Cincy, Houston, and WSU guaranteed, we will most likely have SMU, UCF, Tulane, and Memphis. Tulsa will play Temple, ECU, USF and UConn once
Memphis will play UCF, Temple, SMU and Tulane twice for sure. They should also play Houston, Tulsa and UConn home and home. They will only play Cincy, USF, ECU, and Wichita once.
UCF will play SMU, Memphis, Temple, and USF home and home guaranteed. UCF should have home and homes with Houston, Tulsa, and UConn. They will play ECU, Tulane, Wichita, and Cincy once.
Temple will play Memphis, UCF, SMU, and Cincy two times. They should also play Tulane, ECU, and USF home and home. They will only play Houston, UConn, Tulsa, and Wichita once.
SMU gets Memphis, UCF, Temple, and Houston for sure as home and home. They should also get Tulsa, Wichita, ECU at home. They will play Cincy, USF, Tulane, and UConn once.
UConn gets ECU, USF, Tulane at home for sure. They should also have Houston, Cincy, Memphis, UCF. They will play SMU, Tulsa, Temple and Wichita once.
Tulane will play ECU, USF, UConn, and Memphis home and home. They should also play Tulsa, Temple, and Wichita home and home. They will play Cincy, Houston, SMU, and UCF once.
ECU will play UConn, Tulane, and USF for home and home. They should play Wichita, Cincy, Temple, and SMU for two games. They will play UCF, Tulsa, Houston, and Memphis once.
USF will play UConn, Tulane, ECU, and UCF as home and homes. They should also play Temple, Cincy, and Wichita. They will play Houston, Tulsa, Memphis, and SMU once.
Tulsa will have a slightly harder schedule, but there isn't much difference between 6th and 4th so there shouldn't be in the schedule either.
If you look you won't find any marquee match ups missing. SMU vs UConn/Cincy only once is the worst, Cincy Memphis only once could be another with UConn Wichita being the other possible. The duds are mostly avoided for Cincy and Wichita with Houston probably having the hardest schedule.