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

[Here for the Wins]

2 hours ago, LovingBuckeye said:

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

You’re looking at it from an Ohio State perspective.  Teams that you expect to fall in the 10-25 range may lose out with an extra loss.

 

For this year, it’s a decent chance that UTSA and/or Texas State are solid opponents.  At least relative to SHSU, UTEP, etc.

I would wager many strength of schedules give too much weight to the bottom quartile of the schedule.

[HalfmileHorn]

Don't care about any of the optics, optimizing, prognosticating what the selection committee is looking for, irdgas. I would play Ohio State year-in, year-out & let the chips fall where they may. It's been like a dream come true to see us play Ohio State & Michigan the last 20 years. 

[Pwood]

3 hours ago, LovingBuckeye said:

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

I respect Ohio State for adding the most competitive teams in the SEC to their non-conference schedule the next few years. As a fan, I love that Texas likes to schedule one big time program for an out of conference game. I get the argument against it, but man it’s fun to have big games with teams we don’t normally play. I hope the selection committee gets their head out of their a$$ so we can keep scheduling these games. Who had the bright idea that anyone is going to want to watch not 1, but 2 G5 schools in place of Texas or Notre Dame - crazy!!

[yoyocc]

The committee will grade our schedule as if it were the 100th SOS. They don't care, wins and loss column is above all. Sark needs to treat the Ohio State game like it's his last.