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At the end of the season IU’s strength of schedule number wont look wildly worse than ole miss or Tennessee. IUs remaining strength of schedule is 4th, ole miss is 49, and UTs is 70th. Outside of uga, ole miss does not have a good schedule. Tenn at least got uga and bama. But both take a cowardly approach to non conference scheduling. It sucks for IU that UM and UW fell off as hard as they did. At the end of the day I’m not going to lose sleep over whoever gets left out. If it’s a 1 loss IU, well you shouldn’t have ducked Louisville ooc. If it’s a 2 loss sec team, well you shouldn’t have lost to vandy, Arkansas, or Kentucky on top of another loss.

Him being a millionaire has nothing to do with this specific stupid take. He might be great at nba, I don’t know, I’ve never heard of him. He just has a bad take that losses, and bad losses at that, don’t matter for the sec teams just because he thinks they’re good teams. It’s not just him either. There’s a number of people that are of the mind that quality wins are the only measuring stick. That somehow having multiple losses including bad teams makes you more deserving than IU, psu, or Texas just because you beat uga or bama. It’s just a dumb opinion to have. The guy even knows it when he says that he’s normally of the opinion that losses matter, but not this time. And then he uses wins over arky and lsu as decent wins. strength of record: IU - 6 bama - 7 Tenn - 10 ole miss - 12 Indiana is probably worse than those teams. But the results on the field matter.

Neither you, nor that asshat in the video that you said you couldn’t disagree with was talking about Indiana after a loss to Ohio state. This set of rankings is looking at where Indiana is right now. And where a bunch of 2 loss sec teams with bad losses are right now. And they are rightfully below Indiana. Indiana’s schedule is all in front of them. If they beat osu on Saturday they’ll be playing Oregon for the 1 seed. If they lose close to osu they’ll probably have to go play a 1st round game in Athens or Tuscaloosa. If they lose bad, they probably need an upset to get in at all. Even your guy in the video says how he normally has the stance of losses matter but… and then goes on to say that because he thinks the 2 loss sec teams are good and Indiana and Penn state aren’t, that the losses don’t matter. And that’s just fucking stupid. I hope Indiana makes it in. I’d love to see them somehow end up hosting one of the 2 loss sec teams. Bama, ole miss, and tenn have all shown that they are capable of losing to teams that are worse than Washington or Michigan. And while IU doesn’t have a win like any of those teams, they don’t have a loss, let alone 2 losses.

If Indiana gets blasted by osu on Saturday they should absolutely, and likely will, drop like a stone and unless there are some upsets. A bad loss probably puts them just outside needing an upset or two to get in. They’d need Texas to beat aggy and then another sec team to get a 3rd loss. The should also be punished for that non conference schedule, just like ole miss should be for theirs. But at least ole miss played wake. With a loss to osu, they’d probably find themselves wishing they hadn’t can the game with Louisville looking for something to call a quality win.

This is so fucking stupid and is exactly the nonsense that I was talking about upthread when I said that for some people the lack of a clear cut top tier in the sec equate to everyone being awesome. @TrashMaster G This equates to nothing more than “I think uga and bama are awesome so their losses don’t mean anything.” And not only does uga losing twice not mean anything, but ole miss and tenn must also be awesome since they beat uga and bama. And we’re again supposed to just ignore losses to Vanderbilt, Kentucky, and Arkansas. He went so far as to call out LSU as a good win. LSU fucking sucks. Southern cal beat LSU week 1 and absolutely no one will try to claim them as a quality win for psu or nd. Do I think Indiana would be favored against bama? No, but they’ve smoked everyone they’ve played, didnt play Mercer in November, and they also didn’t lose two games including fucking Vanderbilt. The bad losses have to mean something but to the sec slobbers it either gets flat out ignored or “actually Vanderbilt, arky, and uk are all really good teams despite what their records say.”

Not knowing when that site starts tracking the lines, that was probably one of a handful of games that had lines at the beginning of the season.

The sec has no business talking down on anyone’s strength of schedule until they start playing 9 conference games. Uga and Tenn both play 2-8 ooc games this week where they’re favored by 40+, A&M played NM st last week, 2-8 favored by 40+. Bama played fucking Mercer on Saturday. Oregon and Penn state would much rather be playing Mercer or Umass in November instead of Wisconsin & Minnesota. 2 loss sec teams practically getting a week off in November instead of playing Vandy, Arky, Kentucky, or LSU.

Those guys are morons. They’re talking about who you’d kick out to let army in if they win out beating notre dame and they conclude that you can’t kick out any of those teams for army. You’d kick out fucking notre dame because they’d have two losses to army and northern Illinois.

So by their measure the only thing that matters is your best win and bad losses mean nothing. Even number of losses means nothing. Ole Miss and Tenn just getting shuffled right into the 7 & 10 spot without any discussion of their warts. Ole Miss has the win over uga, but they have 2 bad losses. And they have to be punished for that ooc schedule. Tenn has the win over bama, but got blasted by uga, lost to arky, got taken to OT by UF, was in a 1 score game late in the 4th with UK. Of all the bubble teams, the worst losses are ole miss to uk, bama to vandy, and tenn to ark. Plus they all have a second loss. But those guys don’t have any of them on the bubble, say that IU and psu both need to worry more than any of those teams with only 1 loss, that’s a “better” loss than any of those teams with 2 losses. UT is out despite not having a bad loss. Just because those 3 teams beat uga, who has looked really flawed at times. I just can’t see how Texas drops from 3 to 13 with a second loss, behind all of those other 2 loss teams, unless it’s a really ugly loss.

Is that sos to this point or total? Bama played Mercer this week and uga plays umass next week.

Is the sense that ole miss and bama would both get in over Texas with a loss to A&M based solely on their wins over uga? Because I just don’t see Texas’s resume being the worst of those 3. Ole Miss has two bad losses and the LSU loss looks worse every week. And they should absolutely be punished for that non conference schedule. And Texas has wins over Kentucky and Vandy who provided 2 of the bama & ole miss losses.

The sec sets the schedule up specifically to maximize ranked teams at the end of the season. Playing 8 conference games instead of 9 makes the whole league look marginally better in comparison to a conference that has 8 more losses. And they replace those conference games with absolute dog shit in November. Sec games in November: Maine UMass NM St Louisiana-Monroe Murray St Mercer UMass again UTEP Wofford Loisiana Tech That some of you have bought into the idea that the sec cannibalises itself with its brutal conference schedule is laughable bullshit. Ole Miss lost to LSU and Kentucky, and they played a ooc schedule of Furman, middle Tennessee, wake, and Georgia southern. Ole Miss, A&M, SC, LSU, Missouri, could all have easily dropped an extra conference game and made the league as a whole look worse. Hell the winner (and loser) of this uga-tenn game get a pillow soft game next week. Tenn gets utep and uga plays umass. Instead of getting another conference game to follow up this game. There’s no clear cut top tier in the sec this year so for some of you the takeaway is “oh that must mean that everyone is awesome”. s-e-c s-e-c s-e-c

I’m not sure how anyone thought they were going to see a great fight out of a 60 year old. Jake should feel embarrassed that he boxed an old man.

The only reason 95% of the people watching this is because it’s Mike Tyson.

So there’s a real chance Mike dies in the ring tonight, right? Trotting a 60 year old man out into a boxing ring seems beyond ridiculous.