Vols Rank #3 - SOS - 2014 Season

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Butch Jones politely said at SECMD14 that this years schedule was not as difficult as last years. At least that's what I got from his comments when asked about the schedule.
 
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bamawriter said:
Bama's two East opponents went a combined 9-15. Pretty much destroys any chance of having a tougher schedule than the rest of the conference.
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Most people overlook that. UT playing Bama increases UT's SOS. Bama playing UT decreases Bama's SOS.
 
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Boca Vol said:
Most people overlook that. UT playing Bama increases UT's SOS. Bama playing UT decreases Bama's SOS.
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having florida later in the schedule and at home helps

Also bama at home helps a little.

going to georgia and uscjr is not much fun, but our November schedule is back in our favor
 
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bamawriter said:
Bama's two East opponents went a combined 9-15. Pretty much destroys any chance of having a tougher schedule than the rest of the conference.
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How things have changed. Having Tennessee and Florida actually weakens the schedule. A few years ago this would have made it the toughest.
 
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bamawriter said:
Bama's two East opponents went a combined 9-15. Pretty much destroys any chance of having a tougher schedule than the rest of the conference.
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That AND your OOC which is putrid. Your OOC opponents were a combined 13-35 last year. WVU went 4-8, Florida Atlantic went 6-6, Southern Miss went 1-11, and mighty FCS foe Western Carolina went 2-10; talk about a murderer's row. Bama is the poster child for cupcake scheduling.
 
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OOC schedule really is the only thing that can be compared. The East has UK/Vandy which always suck, and with Tennessee down thats a pretty big percentage that isn't very good. On the other hand, the west is better top to bottom I think. Arky, Miss St. and Ole Miss are probably the three worst and in general I feel they're better than the bottom 3 of the east.
 
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thebjd said:
How things have changed. Having Tennessee and Florida actually weakens the schedule. A few years ago this would have made it the toughest.
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It's all the more interesting that, in order to counter LSU's whining, the SEC moved Florida up in Alabama's rotation after UF was coming off thier 11-2 2012 season. Then the wheels came completely off.
 
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vtvol98 said:
That AND your OOC which is putrid. Your OOC opponents were a combined 13-35 last year. WVU went 4-8, Florida Atlantic went 6-6, Southern Miss went 1-11, and mighty FCS foe Western Carolina went 2-10; talk about a murderer's row. Bama is the poster child for cupcake scheduling.
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Like I've probably pointed out 15 times: WVU was coming off a 40 point victory in a BCS bowl game when Bama scheduled the game.

UT looked a lot better for Oklahoma's schedule when that series was booked several years ago. Should OU be criticized for scheduling a weak OOC? Their ranking on this list is practically identical to Bama's.
 
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bamawriter said:
Bama's two East opponents went a combined 9-15. Pretty much destroys any chance of having a tougher schedule than the rest of the conference.
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Nice try, but even after removing the wins and losses from each team's cross-division opponents, Vandy's schedule would still rank higher than Bama's schedule on this list.
 
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This appears to be a deeply flawed, overly simplistic methodology. By looking ONLY at last year's win/loss record, you can equate a 10+ win team from an awful conference to one of the better teams in the country from a "Power 5 Conference".

For example, we play Oklahoma who was 11-2 last year and clearly one of the best teams in the country, as well as being projected as a top 3 team this.

Vandy plays Charleston Southern from the Big South Conference who finished 10-3 last year .....vs the likes of Campbell, Shorter and Norfolk State.

According to the simplified SOS methodology used by the NCAA, Vandy gets approximately as much "credit" for playing Charleston Southern as we do for playing freaking Oklahoma.
 
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KBVol said:
This appears to be a deeply flawed, overly simplistic methodology. By looking ONLY at last year's win/loss record, you can equate a 10+ win team from an awful conference to one of the better teams in the country from a "Power 5 Conference".

For example, we play Oklahoma who was 11-2 last year and clearly one of the best teams in the country, as well as being projected as a top 3 team this.

Vandy plays Charleston Southern from the Big South Conference who finished 10-3 last year .....vs the likes of Campbell, Shorter and Norfolk State.

According to the simplified SOS methodology used by the NCAA, Vandy gets approximately as much "credit" for playing Charleston Southern as we do for playing freaking Oklahoma.
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No arguments there. It's a very silly way of ranking SOS, but bamawriter was trying to point to Bama's SEC East opponents as the reason their schedule is so low on this list, which is not the case.
 
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VOLfrombama said:
having florida later in the schedule and at home helps

Also bama at home helps a little.

going to georgia and uscjr is not much fun, but our November schedule is back in our favor
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Dem Bulldogs will still be pulln' dem hedges outta dey asses after Vols leave athens. Dem game chickens gonna be kentucky fried chicken when de Vols gets tru wib 'em :yes:
 
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Quaint88 said:
No arguments there. It's a very silly way of ranking SOS, but bamawriter was trying to point to Bama's SEC East opponents as the reason their schedule is so low on this list, which is not the case.
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It's a combination, of sorts. There were a lot of posters on here last year scratching their heads as why UT didn't have the #1 SOS.

The main reason was the likes of APSU, etc. To KB's point, APSU, Charleston Southern, etc. should all be cupcakes to SEC schools whether they're 0-12 or 10-2. Unfortunately they carry as much weight as Oregon or Oklahoma using this method.

Back to last season, there is no-one in the country who would have traded schedules with UT with a Sagarin SOS ranking of 10.
 
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