I'd love to see a mini-spring schedule of 2 or 4 games where teams could play FCS opponents.

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Aug 24, 2024
1:25:37pm

Spiff SequelTrilogyFan

I'd love to see a mini-spring schedule of 2 or 4 games where teams could play FCS opponents.

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Spiff

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Time

Should conference schedules seek to balance Strength of Schedule?

Xenon

Aug 24, 10:51am

I don't think they care about balanced schedules

WJCougar

Aug 24, 10:54am

SHOULD they care, or is that not really something they should care about

Xenon

Aug 24, 11:00am

it all works out fine. floridas average SOS over the last 10 years ranks 8th in

FieroCoug

Aug 24, 11:10am

That's not fine, probably, if you are the head coach on a hot seat...

Xenon

Aug 24, 11:20am

that’s true, but that’s the fault of the fans. that’s probably my least favorite

FieroCoug

Aug 24, 11:35am

i think it’ll balance out decently well most years with a couple outliers in

FieroCoug

Aug 24, 10:57am

What should happen is irrelevant. What WILL happen is conferences scheduling to

Aug 24, 11:00am

As best they can guess - but, how do they really know for sure?

Cougarbib

Aug 24, 11:01am

Yes

Japan Coug

Aug 24, 11:20am

Balance it by forcing all teams to play 9 conference opponents. Ridiculous that SEC and ACC only play 8. Inflated

mulletino

Aug 24, 11:21am

agreed. SEC fans love to talk about how tough the schedules are yet

FieroCoug

Aug 24, 12:45pm

I don't like 9 conf games. Feels like it's an advantage to the teams who wind up w/ 5 conf home games that season.

Spiff

Aug 24, 1:15pm

I agree. I prefer 8, or maybe even 10. But the ideal is 8, with good OOC games,

Japan Coug

Aug 24, 1:20pm

I'd love to see a mini-spring schedule of 2 or 4 games where teams could play FCS opponents.

Spiff

Aug 24, 1:25pm

Agreed. But it needs to be equal across the board.

mulletino

Aug 24, 1:40pm

We got 5 homers this season - 4 vs ranked teams. Seems to gave balanced out if

Cougarbib

Aug 24, 2:46pm

No. Because perceived SoS based on past results often shows itself to be completely incorrect by the time Oct or Nov

unctoothman

Aug 24, 1:57pm

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