If I’m being honest, probably the former. But Thats just based off knowing what has happened with OSU the past 9 seasons. I think if you’re any other team in the nation, I take the later. finishing 4th every year sets you up better for a conference title appearance. We just can’t take advantage ever. That’s Gundy’s fault. The only defense I’ll give Gundy is, if the conference title game wouldn’t have went away after 2010, he would have played in 4. Instead they got listed as “de facto conference titles” since it didn’t exist at the time. I thought it was dumb that they took it away in the first place.
Anyway, to your point, you’re right. They should have been in in 2017, and probably should have this year too. Blew em both with unnecessary loses.
U real r a sad nutter. U have a long way to September. When we dnt play anyone and have a heart time doing so poor joe.
Yes no answer ,I have .u keep saying blah blah. Learn to move on this a dead horse. No you did not win. U made no sense on why we should play 3 blue bloods or why only a handful of teams play that kind of schedule.
U know they do a thing called sos and even non con sos knock urself out.
I said in an earlier post I don’t mind scheduling Tulsa. What I DO have a Problem with is when we schedule a non-power 5 team that has no history of being very strong. Scheduling a 1-AA school just to pad the winning column, and then scheduling a Power 5 school that’s lucky not to get last place in their conference all in one season. So who’s next then? Illinois perhaps?
Blah blah if it doesn’t fit your logic u just go back blah blah. U know I remember when both ou and bama couldn’t buy wins. Alabama had a 40 sos dude u cant play that off with blah blah. Ur always do it. Is it just u need deep in urself to be rite. Because the stuff u say goes against osu not Gundy. I mean we have played schools like Mcneese for yrs. I mean u just dnt get it. Go look up all the school ur buddy miles played in nonconference.
I took my own advice. So look look!! at miles at osu we play ucla not to many power 5 teams. At lsu, those school looked like are schedule. And look their ur lil friend Mcneese state. I know blah blah blah
For years now Bama has played Auburn, LSU, and Texas A&M every season. They also get Georgia and Florida for some seasons as well. They almost alway start their season off with a ranked non-conference opponent (and win), and are ranked in the top 5 as well.
There is absolutely no benefit in them scheduling three or four straight above average non-conference teams because they have absolutely nothing to prove based on their history the past decade.
For OSU it’s a different story. They DEFINITELY have stuff they need to prove. We have a hard enough time just trying to be the average Joe in our league. If we’re serious about being taken seriously we’ll stop intentionally scheduling P5 teams that can’t even make a bowl game. Based on the future schedule it looks like we are going that direction.
What do you mean it explains “nothing”. It explains that no matter who Bama plays in non-conference they still continue to be successful on a consistent basis.
In Stillwater we play three games we know we can win and end up embarrassing ourselves in our conference openers most of the time.
Look I dnt care who Alabama. But u care telling us the though schedule they grind through. This all started with u tells everyone we dnt play anyone.
Sos is a calculated # to evaluate each teams strength of schedule so as to compare to each other team.
So if r # is below 20 that’s good meaning we play a tough schedule. Which fits at least last 2 yrs. A team who plays a 40 like Alabama is not as tough schedule.
I really get tired of having to spell out ever thing to u. They make sports dictionaries and books for idiots.
Once u learn the basic then u can give opinion.
Ur last post was a prediction. ESPN teamrankinghad us 40 and 25 in sos in 2018.
Prediction dnt tell the hold story. Oh wait they dnt tell any story.
We were 4 and 1 in top 25 games and 2 and 1in top 10 games
Ar0 ur as good at this as Joe
They make books for slow people to learn basic on sports.