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The two bell cows of the BigTen have bad OOC scheds as well as most of the SEC. No profit in doing more. Literal or figurative as far as the CFP is concerned. The conference schedule is out of our control. Nick has asked for 9 games for a decade. Bama can’t help if the Mississippi schools and Georgia vote it down, so I won’t worry about it until those teams are shamed into voting for it.
Bama’s OOC is
Texas
Middle Tennessee
@South Florida (can’t believe we’re traveling to Tampa to play them)
Chatt
Ohio State’s is:
ND
WKU
Youngstown
Michigan’s is:
East Carolina
UNLV
Bowling Green
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"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
Yeah, even if we had Oregon State or some shit as a P5 opponent, it doesn’t really matter. Most teams will play one legit OOC opponent every other year or so. Especially with conferences consolidating.
Next year the Big Ten will have Michigan, OSU, PSU, Nebraska, USC, UCLA, and to a lesser extent, Wisconsin and Iowa.
The SEC will have Alabama, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas A&M, and to a lesser extent, Auburn and Ole Miss.
Why on earth would teams in those conferences seek out home and homes with other A-list programs when you can pad the bottom line with a home game against a poverty program?
A soft OOC schedule is a no brainer in CFB's emerging consolidation and post season. It's fun to mock these soft schedules. Anyone with a brain dismisses that talk.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
Alabama’s preseason SOS is #18. If it holds somewhere close to that, we’re fine. We also have a top national brand, so even if it dropped down to the 40’s (it won’t), we’ll be fine with the committee.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
Well, it’s possible that Nick changed his mind after 15 years, or he wanted to use it as a poker chip to bargain with or, maybe “Action Network HQ” has its facts wrong and doesn’t have the actual voting record of each school.
I think it’s likely either option 2 or option 3. I do know that Nick was unhappy on who our proposed guaranteed regular opponents were proposed to be.
"The problem with quotes on the Internet is that it is sometimes hard to verify their authenticity." -Abraham Lincoln
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