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Lol, that's the most overwhelming graph I think I've ever seen.
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(04-27-2019 03:39 PM)cubucks Wrote:  Lol, that's the most overwhelming graph I think I've ever seen.

It's not so bad once you get familiar with which color represents which conference. You should have seen the version with the FCS conferences in it too!

Edit: I removed the markers for each year. Also cut out the I-A/FBS indies, since they're not really a conference. Hope it's less overwhelming!
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So I'm not the smartest guy in the world, obviously. Reading through the link I see Iowa at #10. What is driving that? I'm an Iowa fan so to speak, I like BIG Western teams, but just surprised to see this.
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So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?
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(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

The takeaways are BE vs AAC and MWC pre/post-realignment.
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(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

I thought the history of the conferences was the most interesting part.
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(04-27-2019 04:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

The takeaways are BE vs AAC and MWC pre/post-realignment.

Yes. Instead of closing the gap with the P5, they are moving down toward the rest of the G5. A couple of teams are doing well, but collectively the gap appears to be growing.
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Another thing that's interesting is how the WAC didn't really seem to get hurt much competitively when the MWC formed. In their last season as a FB conference, the WAC even surpassed the MWC!
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(04-27-2019 04:44 PM)ken d Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

The takeaways are BE vs AAC and MWC pre/post-realignment.

Yes. Instead of closing the gap with the P5, they are moving down toward the rest of the G5. A couple of teams are doing well, but collectively the gap appears to be growing.

Also of note is how even the 2004-12 Big East was able to keep up with the other power conferences, and performed far better than the AAC has (unlike what some here might purport).
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(04-27-2019 05:06 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:44 PM)ken d Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

The takeaways are BE vs AAC and MWC pre/post-realignment.

Yes. Instead of closing the gap with the P5, they are moving down toward the rest of the G5. A couple of teams are doing well, but collectively the gap appears to be growing.

Also of note is how even the 2004-12 Big East was able to keep up with the other power conferences, and performed far better than the AAC has (unlike what some here might purport).

Yes, the Big East falls off a cliff when it becomes the AAC. Dives straight down to G5 level.
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(04-27-2019 07:45 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, the Big East falls off a cliff when it becomes the AAC. Dives straight down to G5 level.

That sounds a little misleading. For the most part, the individual teams that make up the AAC are performing at about the same level they were playing at 12 years ago. Their performance (excluding UConn and ECU) is where it always was. It's just that when they were playing at that level they were C-USA, not Big East.

The teams that replaced the old Big East members who moved on to P5 leagues just were never as good as their predecessors. That's why those teams got called up to the bigs in the first place.
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(04-27-2019 03:16 PM)Nerdlinger Wrote:  [Image: 27GT9UL.png]

Data from here: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sa...2018/team/

nice chart.
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(04-27-2019 04:17 PM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 04:16 PM)ken d Wrote:  So, in a nutshell, what this is telling us is that all P5 conferences are stronger on the field than all G5 conferences. Did we need a graph to tell us that?

The takeaways are BE vs AAC and MWC pre/post-realignment.

As we can see from the chart there are two years where the BE 1.0 football lineup and BE 2.0 football lineup were as high as #2 in the country in the Sagarins.

The MWC with its 8 team lineup was better than the BE in one season. That goes by what I said that the BE even in its darkest days was as good as the Top 8 of the AAC with the bottom feeders excluded.
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Biggest difference between BE and AAC is the bottom of the conference. The fact the BE had 8 members and the aAC has 12 is at play. Frankly, there are several schools in the AAC that are better on the field than Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers were from the years being measured. (schools that got “out”).
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(04-28-2019 08:31 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Biggest difference between BE and AAC is the bottom of the conference. The fact the BE had 8 members and the aAC has 12 is at play. Frankly, there are several schools in the AAC that are better on the field than Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers were from the years being measured. (schools that got “out”).

The BE had a high floor when it came to recruiting. Even the 8th best program was recruiting a Top 60/Top 70 class.

The bottom falls out in AAC recruiting. See UConn's recruiting class.
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(04-27-2019 04:12 PM)cubucks Wrote:  So I'm not the smartest guy in the world, obviously. Reading through the link I see Iowa at #10. What is driving that? I'm an Iowa fan so to speak, I like BIG Western teams, but just surprised to see this.

It just confirms Iowa fans theories that Iowa really underperformed when it counted and that NW way overperformed when it mattered.

Ok seriously it probably just means that Iowa did really well OOC, beating decent teams like Iowa St and Miss St, which helped its overall rating. Just Iowa did not win any big games in the conference. Kind of the opposite of NW, who had some awful ooc losses but won all the important games inside the conference.
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(04-27-2019 08:09 PM)ken d Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 07:45 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, the Big East falls off a cliff when it becomes the AAC. Dives straight down to G5 level.

That sounds a little misleading. For the most part, the individual teams that make up the AAC are performing at about the same level they were playing at 12 years ago. Their performance (excluding UConn and ECU) is where it always was. It's just that when they were playing at that level they were C-USA, not Big East.

The teams that replaced the old Big East members who moved on to P5 leagues just were never as good as their predecessors. That's why those teams got called up to the bigs in the first place.

I don't disagree, and I don't think what i said is misleading. 07-coffee3
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(04-28-2019 08:31 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Biggest difference between BE and AAC is the bottom of the conference. The fact the BE had 8 members and the aAC has 12 is at play. Frankly, there are several schools in the AAC that are better on the field than Syracuse, Pitt and Rutgers were from the years being measured. (schools that got “out”).

Some around here are trying to justify the AAC by saying "compare the AAC top 8 to the Big East 8". Can't do that, you might as well say "compare the AAC bottom 8 to the Big East 8.

It's like saying right now "compare the Big 12 to the SEC top 10". Absurd.
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(04-28-2019 09:31 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 08:09 PM)ken d Wrote:  
(04-27-2019 07:45 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  Yes, the Big East falls off a cliff when it becomes the AAC. Dives straight down to G5 level.

That sounds a little misleading. For the most part, the individual teams that make up the AAC are performing at about the same level they were playing at 12 years ago. Their performance (excluding UConn and ECU) is where it always was. It's just that when they were playing at that level they were C-USA, not Big East.

The teams that replaced the old Big East members who moved on to P5 leagues just were never as good as their predecessors. That's why those teams got called up to the bigs in the first place.

I don't disagree, and I don't think what i said is misleading. 07-coffee3

I could have phrased that better. My apologies. I was just pointing out that those graphs show the ratings for those leagues as they were constituted at the time..
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