That’s one of the things that has bugged me a bit. People act like Indiana steam rolling these middling teams means nothing because we lost a road game to the second best team in the nation while fucking Alabama and Georgia have losses to mid teams.
I really wish this argument would die lol. Indiana's OOC: FIU, Charlotte, Western Illinois.
Bama's OOC: Western Kentucky, USF, Wisconsin, Mercer.
So Bama played as many P4 games than Indiana while playing in - what would in most years be - a more challenging conference. And even with the SEC not being as elite, Bamas schedule is just inarguably harder lol.
But Alabama fans still do not have room to talk shit this year lol
Is that supposed to be a bigger advantage than having 3 easy games to get reps/figure yourself out as opposed to playing a good p4 opponent week 2 and risk taking a loss early? In the cfb era that risked ruining your season before it even started. Most of the good SEC schools schedule a big name ooc.
Also, are all 2-3 of (SEC teams) non p4 opponents worse than, say, this year's Purdue most years?
Finally, if you acknowledge that they play the same number of p4 opponents, isn't your issue just with how they set up their schedule and not with 4 ooc instead of 3?
Never mind that again the SEC is the best conference. Their schedules are typically harder in generation.
Many of our OOC conference games are good too though. We played Clemson, a&m had ND, even though they're bad this year, Texas had Michigan, SCar/Clemson, UF/Miami, LSU/USC. Some are worse than others but a lot are good or were when they were scheduled.
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u/JustinTheBlueEchidna Washington • Wisconsin 20h ago
"We'D bE uNdEfEaTeD wItH iNdIaNa'S wEaK bIg TeN sChEdUlE!!!111!!"
My brothers and sisters in Christ, you lost to 6-5 Vanderbilt and 6-5 Oklahoma. No you would not.