(01-08-2020 07:01 PM)MvETigers Wrote: (01-07-2020 05:09 PM)dan o Wrote: (01-07-2020 09:40 AM)fsquid Wrote: I guess we are going to SEC route and playing a D1-AA school in late November.
We could do that IF we also played their SEC schedule.
During the regular season, we played 4 games against Playoff Poll ranked opponents last season... Bama played 2. Bama played 2 teams with losing records OOC and an FCS team. Their toughest OOC game was Southern Miss.
Auburn and Texas A&M are the only two teams that played more than 4 ranked teams in the Playoff Poll. Miss St, ole miss (thanks to playing us) and LSU played 4, everyone else played 3 or less.
There was only 2 conferences with 5 10 win teams. The AAC was one of them. I think you are incredibly under selling the strength of our conference. Even if Clemson wins the NC, our power rating is still higher than the ACC.
We may then have the most powerful and mighty league in football [statistically], but again we do not have to play an SEC conference schedule.
5 of the top 13 teams in the playoff poll were from the SEC.
10 wins is also an admirable accomplishment but can quite often be a result of weak scheduling.
This is simply my opinion. And, it is somewhat based on the fact that the Tigers have been perennially rated with one of the weakest schedules in both football and basketball. It is what it is.
9/25/19 Phil Kaplan, college sports editor wrote-...Memphis beat just one team that finished with an above .500 record last year, and that one team (Houston) was missing its star quarterback... The Tigers, after all, are 0-3 in bowl games and 0-5 in December under Norvell.
Also in 2019, Athlon Sports wrote-...The league believes its aggression in scheduling will carry it further. Aresco specifically cites a mandate that he gave his member institutions five years ago to start scheduling as tough as they could, no matter the home-and-away structure of the deals. His message to schools like Houston — still angry about being left behind during the formation of the original Big 12 — and Cincinnati, a Big East team left alone after traditional rivals Louisville and West Virginia were scooped up, was to play their way out of the problem.
“I don’t know if I’d call it a mandate, but there was a very strong suggestion that every school schedule at least two P5 schools per season, and of course now we like to call them ‘other P6’s,’” Aresco says.
Everyone bought in, which is why you’ll see the AAC playing a slew of top-30 programs in the first three weeks of the 2019 season: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Washington State, Stanford, Wisconsin, Michigan State, NC State, Ohio State and Auburn.
FUTURE MEMPHIS NON-CONFERENCE OPPONENTS
2020
• 09/05 - Arkansas State
• 09/12 - at Purdue
• 09/19 - UT Martin
• 09/26 - at UTSA
2021
• 09/04 - Nicholls
• 09/11 - at Arkansas State
• 09/18 - Mississippi State
• 09/25 - UTSA
2022
• 09/03 - Arkansas State
• 09/17 - North Texas
• 09/24 - at Mississippi State
• 10/01 - North Alabama
2023
• 09/09 - at Arkansas State
• 09/16 - at North Texas
• 09/23 - Missouri
2024
• 09/07 - Troy
2025
• 09/06 - at Georgia State
• 09/13 - at Troy