(06-17-2019 10:48 AM)everyone Wrote: (06-17-2019 10:29 AM)Yosef Himself Wrote: Georgia Southern beat a #25 ranked App State last year.
And yeh, I wouldn't count App's win over #5 Michigan since it was still an FCS year, but you'd need to remove all the FCS teams from the list.
Don't care enough to do that but thanks for the suggestion and doesn't change the fact that we all have work to do to schedule better and win big games.
I don't disagree on that point, but it's also a self-selecting game (as a matter of opportunity), which creates a really misleading story in these numbers.
For example, if the pollsters are in love with Alabama and Auburn (and they always are), then when one of them wins a regularly scheduled game between them, their conference is automatically going to get a ranked win (it doesn't matter who wins - they go 1-1). Now multiply this by the unending love the P5s get and you'll see that a .500 SEC team is likely to get 6-8 ranked games per year (whether deserved or not) and win about 3 of them. And in those 6 games, the SEC will be credited with 6 regular season wins over a ranked opponent. That's opportunity.
Add on top of that the fact that P5s don't travel for non-conference games against ranked G5s and you're talking about a CUSA team that may have one chance against a ranked team in the regular season every 2 years, and those games are always on the road rather than a neutral site or at home.
Add onto that the fact that the top G5s can't get a fair shake in the scheduling because the P5s neither want to play them nor give them an opportunity to elevate their own status (and possibly start breaking the hypnotic hold the P5 has managed to gain over joe public). See, e.g., UCF's inability to get anyone to play them.
This means that the raw numbers are incredibly misleading. Show me the winning percentage of P5s on the road in non-conference games against ranked opponents and I'm sure we'd see much more similar numbers. But given the inherent inequity in the system, it would be nigh on impossible for G5s to catch up. And if any of them start to, the P5s will absorb them rather than compete against them.