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Originally Posted by Saul Good
WTF are you talking about? Of course the extra game is the power team. That's why the SEC plays a ton of marquee OOC games while the Big 12 plays significantly fewer. Big 12 teams didn't drop their cupcake games when they had to go to a nine game schedule.
Your two time conference champion played Northwestern State, Buffalo, and SMU in the non-con and has agreed to future games against some school called The Incarnate Word.
Big 12 teams replaced difficult out of conference games with another game against a random Big 12 team. Big ****ing deal. The SEC cleaned up against the Big 12 this year, so don't expect me to be impressed that most teams went from three rummies and a team with a pulse in the noncon to three rummies and an extra game in the Big 12.
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Yeah, Baylor has a shit schedule but look who Mississippi St played, Southern Miss, UAB, South Alabama, and Tennessee-Martin. Plentry of Big 12 teams played big OOC games.
Just look at the examples you found of OOC games by bowl teams, two were historical rivalry games. These aren't marginal games.
And strength of schedule ratings just show that the SEC west was strong and deep this year, which we already know (and which is itself a product of the scheduling advantage they undeniably have.)