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Originally Posted by transplant99
Ohio States president chimes in with his thoughts about the current system....in short it works fine as long as its not a small school playing for the NC.
Dunno about anyone else, but looking at their OOC schedule the last 3 years, I think I may have a problem with those thoughst of his.
Marshall, Ohio, Miami, Eastern Michigan...this year.
Navy, USC, Toledo, New Mexico State last year.
Youngstown State, Ohio, USC, Troy the year vefore.
Quite the "guantlet" for sure. No "little sisters of the poor" at all in that mess.
I get he doesnt want a PO system or smaller schools anywhere near a title game, thats his perogative, but to use the excuse he did is pure buffoonery.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5845736 |
You may have noticed that he's talking about conference play there, but either way OSU's schedules are waaaaaaaay more intense than anything BSU and TCU play. They play one, maybe two, out of conference games that are challenging and then cruise through an absolutely pathetic regular season.
Are you seriously arguing that any of these schedules are that much better (I'll just list non-conference as you did):
TCU:
Oregon State, Tennessee Tech, Baylor, SMU
Virginia, Texas State, Clemson, SMU
New Mexico, Stephen F. Austin, Stanford, SMU
BSU:
Virginia Tech, Wyoming, Oregon State, Toledo
Oregon, Miami (OH), Bowling Green, UC Davis
Idaho State, Bowling Green, Oregon, Southern Miss
BSU this year and TCU last year feature 2 decent matchups, otherwise it's the same cupcake level of schedule. Add in the fact that the conference schedules aren't even remotely comparable and I'd say the Gee's point about the schedules these teams face is pretty bang on. I can't say I agree with his whole 'I like that it's a mystery' rationale though, that's a bit hard to get behind.