Texas has the hardest schedule in the country according to Bill Connelly

[Hank South]

 

[Hank South]

Sep. 5 — Texas State

Sep. 12 — Ohio State

Sep. 19 — UTSA

Sep. 26 — at Tennessee

Oct. 3 — OFF

Oct. 10 — vs Oklahoma

Oct. 17 — Florida

Oct. 24 — Ole Miss

Oct. 31 — Mississippi State

Nov. 7 — at Missouri

Nov. 14 — at LSU

Nov. 21 — Arkansas

Nov. 27 — at Texas A&M

[LovingBuckeye]

I am a huge believe in analytics when it comes to CFB rankings. SP+, F+, FEI, FPI, etc.

I knew Ohio State's schedule was tough, I didn't realize how tough Texas' was.

Personally, looking at Texas' schedule, I'm surprised it is rated as the hardest.

There's a good chance most of those teams (Tennessee, Florida, LSU) are 7-5 teams at the end of the season, with others being below .500

[Assistant Regional Manager]

So glad we are agreeing to jeopardize our playoff chances by voluntarily playing Ohio State after what happened last year 🙂

Our SEC schedule wasn't hard enough, I guess. 

[LovingBuckeye]

1 hour ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

So glad we are agreeing to jeopardize our playoff chances by voluntarily playing Ohio State after what happened last year 🙂

Our SEC schedule wasn't hard enough, I guess. 

Bro, you are Texas. You shouldn't be afraid of anybody. 

[Tuco Ramirez]

2 hours ago, Hank South said:

 

Now just make the CFP committee care about SOS. 

[Gerry Hamilton]

This is the biggest obstacle for sure ...

Playing disciplined football, and being able to run the football to close out games against this schedule. 

Extremely difficult schedule ... Muschamp has his work cut out for him due to the QB's on the schedule and offensive ability

[MBHORNSFAN]

7 minutes ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

This is the biggest obstacle for sure ...

Playing disciplined football, and being able to run the football to close out games against this schedule. 

Extremely difficult schedule ... Muschamp has his work cut out for him due to the QB's on the schedule and offensive ability

 

You misspelled Flood

[UTexas]

2 hours ago, Hank South said:

Sep. 5 — Texas State

Sep. 12 — Ohio State

Sep. 19 — UTSA

Sep. 26 — at Tennessee

Oct. 3 — OFF

Oct. 10 — vs Oklahoma

Oct. 17 — Florida

Oct. 24 — Ole Miss

Oct. 31 — Mississippi State

Nov. 7 — at Missouri

Nov. 14 — at LSU

Nov. 21 — Arkansas

Nov. 27 — at Texas A&M

Tha's a heckuva closing stretch with 8 straight games.

[Joe Zura]

14 minutes ago, MBHORNSFAN said:

 

You misspelled Flood

My man 🤘🏼

[Assistant Regional Manager]

25 minutes ago, LovingBuckeye said:

Bro, you are Texas. You shouldn't be afraid of anybody. 

There is a difference between being afraid and unnecessarily making something harder for yourself.

The last three national champions have played a combined zero P4 opponents in nonconference play. That is not a coincidence. 

[Roysterr]

Win OH ST game we make the playoffs

 

Lose OH ST game we are 10 - 3 and miss the playoffs

Huuuuuge home game!

 

[LovingBuckeye]

1 hour ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

There is a difference between being afraid and unnecessarily making something harder for yourself.

The last three national champions have played a combined zero P4 opponents in nonconference play. That is not a coincidence. 

Ohio State played Texas last season, didn't hurt us at all 😉 I just prefer for Ohio State to schedule the best competition as much as possible. How miserable would this sport be if everyone ducked each other? 

[Assistant Regional Manager]

11 minutes ago, LovingBuckeye said:

How miserable would this sport be if everyone ducked each other? 

Well, that is what the committee is telling teams to do. So get ready for more of it. 

[LovingBuckeye]

4 minutes ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

Well, that is what the committee is telling teams to do. So get ready for more of it. 

I agree, I just hope as a consumer, Ohio State doesn't follow that trend. In a soon to be 16+ playoff, it's pathetic in my opinion if you use the committee as an excuse to schedule weak OOC opponents.

The next five years (as of now, could change) Ohio State has

- @Texas
- vs Alabama
- @ Alabama
- vs Georgia
- @ Georgia

[CJ Vogel]

I don’t know if I believe this

[ElToro]

2 hours ago, Gerry Hamilton said:

This is the biggest obstacle for sure ...

Playing disciplined football, and being able to run the football to close out games against this schedule. 

Extremely difficult schedule ... Muschamp has his work cut out for him due to the QB's on the schedule and offensive ability

All eyes, imho, should be on Flood as the make or break. 

[genevalonghorn]

1 hour ago, Assistant Regional Manager said:

There is a difference between being afraid and unnecessarily making something harder for yourself.

The last three national champions have played a combined zero P4 opponents in nonconference play. That is not a coincidence. 

This is an important point, but there's a hidden point too.  The second and third teams etc. making the playoffs from the P2 conferences tend to have an easier league schedule as well.  Consider Slurp last year, which did not play anyone until us, which was after Thanksgiving.  Ole Miss played an overrated OU (win) and Georgia (loss).  Alabama played UGA twice and lost, lost to OU.  Its best win was Tennessee.  (And don't forget the loss to FSU.)

If you look at the relevant Big 10 schedules, they are similarly room service oriented.  Indiana played two teams - Oregon and tOSU, the latter in the league championship.  tOSU played two teams - us and Indiana in the league championship.  You can make an argument about Michigan, and I get it.  But we beat them handily with mostly our backups, and they had limited opt outs.  Oregon played one team - Indiana - in the regular season. 

Now, pick up our schedule from last year or this one and tell me that it is easier than any of these schedules, even if you take the tOSU game out.  It isn't, so why are we making it harder on ourselves?    

[Tres Comas]

And it won't matter to the committee