Hey I keep reading that KU, is being kept down in the BCS Poll because of "Strength of schedule"

( I am bored: Caught between end of Baseball and start of NCAA Basketball)

Question: Who makes each schools schedules? Do they have to play each team in their confrence? Do the big schools put "weak schools" in their schedules to pump up their numbers/

I know I am pretty ignorant when it comes to football, just trying to understand how they decide who is in the championship game. Why is there no playoff, like the March madness in BB?

Hey Muddy, I've been asking for a playoff in college football for twenty years.

Most schools do schedule "cupcakes" at the beginning of the season to iron out the wrinkles before league play starts.

Falcon

Strength of Schedule is calculated by determining the cumulative won/loss records of the team's opponents and the cumulative won/loss records of the teams' opponents' opponents.

Catt, I guess it hurts LSU's strength of scheldule since they just eased by Alabama. If Auburn beats them by 40(that's possible), it may drag yall out of the number one spot.

Toughest/Easiest Schedules:

Toughest

1. Washington

2. LSU

3t. Kentucky

3t. Mississippi

3t. Mississippi State

6. Army

7t. UCLA

7t. Stanford

9. Oregon

10t. South Florida

10t. Cincinnati

Easiest

119. Louisiana - Lafayette

118. Louisiana - Monroe

117t. Miami (Ohio)

117t. Central Michigan

117t. Temple

114. Arkansas State

113. Florida Int'l

112. Florida Atlantic

111. Memphis

110t. Toledo

110t. Eastern Michigan

Kansas's strength of schedule is 65th out of 119 BCS Colleges; on their schedule were Central Michigan, Toledo, & Florida Int'l.

Catt, I guess it hurts LSU's strength of scheldule since they just eased by Alabama. If Auburn beats them by 40(that's possible), it may drag yall out of the number one spot.

;D

Win by 1 or 100 it doesn't change your SOS  

Muddy, to explain Big XII conference play,   As you know, the south and north each have 6 teams.

  Every year, each divison plays the normal 5 teams, then 3 of the other teams.  

Catch is, they play the same 3 colleges two years in a row, there home once and ours once, then you rotate the other three colleges in.

Example.    Texas played all south colleges and the north colleges,   We played Neb in Lincoln last year and then Neb played us in Austin this year.     We also had Iowa St and Kansas St.

Next year, we will have Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado for the next 2 seasons.

Muddy, we will catch Mizz on bad years,   Mizz's program is maturing, and their QB will be inplace for his 3rd and 4th season, as will Kansas.    

So there is some luck involved at catching a college on rebuilding or when they should be peaking.

     The non conference games are normally schedules as much as 5 years down the road, so you may have cream puff to start with, but in 5 years, a small school may have gotten lucky and found Reggie Bush or Vince Young and that creampuff is no longer a gimmie, its a more interesting game.

Matt

This is way to complicated for me, Holiday shoot out on the Horizion, Ill just wait for NCAA Basket Ball :

This is way to complicated for me, Holiday shoot out on the Horizion, Ill just wait for NCAA Basket Ball :

Muddy....it doesn't have to be all that complicated....just become a Vol Fan and root for them to win each time they play.... as a bonus you get to wear orange in the fall so you can look like a pumpkin during the Halloween season or a prisoner the rest of the time....and the words to Rocky Top are real easy to learn....thats all there is to it

Man, for me watching basketball is like watching the Washinton and Houston play baseball when both teams are twenty games out and the Pennant Race has already been decided!

Paint is a lot more interesting, sometimes it changes shade as it dries.

BTW,

THE GAME this week is in Kansas City at Arrowhead Stadium: Missouri v. Kansas.

Muddy, . Go with Penn State! Joe Paterno is best known for football, but is also an outstanding role model, mentor and leader, humanitarian and philanthropist. How many colleges do you know have their library named after a football coach. But bottom line muddy is... JoePa is also a Brooklyn native enough said ehhh.

Muddy and Rocky Top, sounds like P & J,   just goes together.   NOT!!!!

Muddy should pick a Mississippi team, then he can sing the blues for real.    In the SEC, the Mississippi's rarely beat anyone in conference.       Just go back and look at the past 10 years, records dont lie.

We all know Muddy loves the blues, so what better of a team to root for, a team that is always singing the blues because of loosing, pick one or all.

Home of the real Blues.