11-06-2017, 11:59 AM
SOS in college football might be the hardest statistic to judge in all of sports. There are several reasons for that. We must consider that SOS is all done through statistics of games team A, for example, played against team B, and the teams that they played, and the teams they played, and so on.
I realize that's it's the best they can do, considering the circumstances but SOS is less meaningful than college basketball where more games are played against more OOC opponents/conference.
Every bit of that is subjective of how the games would result if those teams actually had to play those teams. Just because team B lost to a certain team but beat team A doesn't necessarily "transfer" that team A would also lose to that team that team B lost to. Transference is speculative, not fact!
When you consider that teams play 12 regular season games a year, they miss most of the teams they could potentially play. Often, the play one or two conference outside their own conference, missing most of the potential conferences they could play.
I'm going to use SDST as an example, because I've followed their schedule and understand it a bit, as far of location is concerned. The OOC schedule for SDST is solid, no doubt. However, not once did they play further east than the Mountain time zone. Much of the country is avoided in their schedule, no fault of their own.
I'm certain I could find just as many teams on the east coast that can make similar claims, especially for conferences who has teams in more bunched localities.
I realize that's it's the best they can do, considering the circumstances but SOS is less meaningful than college basketball where more games are played against more OOC opponents/conference.
Every bit of that is subjective of how the games would result if those teams actually had to play those teams. Just because team B lost to a certain team but beat team A doesn't necessarily "transfer" that team A would also lose to that team that team B lost to. Transference is speculative, not fact!
When you consider that teams play 12 regular season games a year, they miss most of the teams they could potentially play. Often, the play one or two conference outside their own conference, missing most of the potential conferences they could play.
I'm going to use SDST as an example, because I've followed their schedule and understand it a bit, as far of location is concerned. The OOC schedule for SDST is solid, no doubt. However, not once did they play further east than the Mountain time zone. Much of the country is avoided in their schedule, no fault of their own.
I'm certain I could find just as many teams on the east coast that can make similar claims, especially for conferences who has teams in more bunched localities.