(11-30-2016 11:14 AM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  I love these high profile out of conference match ups, but OU would probably be sitting pretty right now if they had a more manageable OOC this season.

When they scheduled Houston, were they a solid team? or just a decent team? I don't think people expected Houston to be this good this year when the schedule was announced? I'm not sure.

(11-30-2016 05:52 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  Oklahoma should not have scheduled Ohio State. That is a for certain. Nothing to gain, for either team, in playing that type of a matchup in the regular season.

Fans are spoiled. Especially TV fans. "Entertain me!!", he roared from his reclining sofa chair with a bowl of nuts resting on the arm.

I know I'm in the minority but I really don't have any interest in those kind of matchups in regular season. I would rather each of the major conferences play more conference games and get auto-berths to playoffs if they qualify (7-5 conf winner doesn't qualify). But that probably won't happen.

(11-30-2016 07:47 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 11:14 AM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  I love these high profile out of conference match ups, but OU would probably be sitting pretty right now if they had a more manageable OOC this season.

Ask that question again when we are down to P4 and winning your conference is what gets you in. Then the answer would be no. But this time around they were between the proverbial rock and hard place. They had to atone for the lack of a CCG so they needed the Buckeyes on the schedule. I'm sure they thought they could take Houston and that that game would assist their recruiting in an area where the SEC now does quite well.

So I'd say they should have scheduled Rice if they wanted a win in Houston. I see the Ohio State scheduling as a reasonable gamble. If they had won that game the narrative would be quite different right now. But they didn't so it is what it is.

OU scheduled Ohio State 7-8 years ago, before the College football playoffs existed. So the lack of a CCG had nothing to do with it.

Since Joe Castiglione has been the AD at OU he has always scheduled one high profile team home and home every year. Alabama, Oregon, Notre Dame, Florida State, Tennessee, Ohio State etc

(11-30-2016 06:08 PM)stever20 Wrote:  I mean, if Oklahoma had won that game, they are probably in the playoff right now with a win over Oklahoma St.

And if OU had replaced Houston and Ohio St with winnable G5's, and OK St had beaten C Michigan (which they did) ... we'd have a 12-0 vs 11-1 defacto Big 12 CCG, with the winner in the playoff.

(12-01-2016 03:01 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 06:08 PM)stever20 Wrote:  I mean, if Oklahoma had won that game, they are probably in the playoff right now with a win over Oklahoma St.

And if OU had replaced Houston and Ohio St with winnable G5's, and OK St had beaten C Michigan (which they did) ... we'd have a 12-0 vs 11-1 defacto Big 12 CCG, with the winner in the playoff.

And those teams would have absolutely no margin for error.

And the other counter would be if Ohio St had played a winnable G5 instead of Oklahoma, they're sitting here right now with a very good chance of missing the playoff.

It's high risk/high reward. To act like playing a good OOC game is all risk and no reward is insanity

(12-01-2016 03:06 PM)stever20 Wrote:  It's high risk/high reward. To act like playing a good OOC game is all risk and no reward is insanity

You're correct ... in the current regime. I don't think I've said otherwise.

My thing has always been: if everyone is playing 10 conf games or 9 conf games + 1 non-conf rivalry (and Notre Dame works it out to play 10 P5 games), then I think it would make sense for everyone to be scheduling 2 G5 games to fill the schedule.

Bunch of whiners. Win. The. Game. Play real teams, win, and you're in.

Loser mentality="we scheduled too hard"! This is football and a forum about football...good grief! It's a Man's game!...there are sewing forums, baking forums, all kinds of whiny forums all over the internet. Quit polluting this one.
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#itsokaytobeamanandlikemanthings

No, they overlost.

(12-01-2016 03:55 PM)Big Frog II Wrote:  No, they overlost.

*see above

No that shouldn't have. A Big 12 schedule is cream puff enough.

(12-01-2016 10:09 AM)superdeluxe Wrote:  

(11-30-2016 11:14 AM)Hokie4Skins Wrote:  I love these high profile out of conference match ups, but OU would probably be sitting pretty right now if they had a more manageable OOC this season.

When they scheduled Houston, were they a solid team? or just a decent team? I don't think people expected Houston to be this good this year when the schedule was announced? I'm not sure.

IIRC, the game was scheduled at the beginning of last season, before the run to the Peach Bowl, so it'd be the virtual equivalent of scheduling San Diego State right now or the beginning of the year. UCF if you want, I'm just trying to give an example that makes sense.