(01-19-2020 12:33 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 12:50 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 12:08 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 11:28 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 10:48 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  I think for a good G5 it helps to be in G5 to finish ranked.as you can rack up 9 or more wins easier.

I doubt most of those 7 finish ranked if they played in P5 conferences. Navy probably goes 6-6 in the SEC or B1G. Most others as well.

Yeah no way Cincinnati or Memphis finishes with 10 wins if they played Pitt's schedule in the ACC: Virginia, Duke, Syracuse, Miami FL, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and BC...


well... then again maybe they would..

Well since the ACC was a borderline G5 conference this year, you are probably right. So I should have limited my claim to the 4 actual "P" conferences this year. Then again I did use the B1G and SEC as my examples.

Using Massey's matchup widget, I put in Florida's SEC schedule home and away for Navy. 5-3.
Navy's Army, Air Force, ND schedule isn't changing regardless of conference home, so Massey has 8-4 for Navy in the SEC East.

That’s the best evidence posted in the thread. From my eye, Navy was better than a trio of 8-5 teams in Indiana, Kentucky & Tennessee (Massey has Navy 15+ spots above all 3) so that’s an easy conclusion for me to agree with.

I've listened to enough of this hooey now. The service academies quit playing a lot of P5's for a reason. Size differential. Their lines were getting too banged up and too many injuries were amassing. None of these computers take size differential or depth into consideration for their predictions. Navy might start the season well in any P5 conference. They sure as hell wouldn't finish it well even against the mid tier and bottom tier competition within those conferences because they would be giving away about 90 lbs a man on the lines and would be deficient in size at linebacker as well.

So go back to running your computer simulations because that's the only world in which they end the season with their health. And my evidence is the decision of the commandants to protect the investments of the taxpayers when they withdrew from playing all but a few games a year against the P5.