Mega Conferences Make mediocre teams look good
And make good teams look great.
The art of having 20 team conferences where you get to skip more than half the schools each year is really diluting things down quite a bit. Run up the resume against conference patsies, skip playing any meaningful OOC games, and trade on name and conference reputation to be ranked high enough to be in the playoff every year.
Teams like tOSU, trading on name and playing a charmin soft schedule, get exposed in the playoffs. They played a few good teams, one great team, and went 1 - 2 in those games.
Technically, this should make it easier for UW to get into the playoff. Sounds like a pretty fucking boring regular season - like the formula for another football league I've heard of before…
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Ohio State played…
10 win Texas (W)
@ 9 win Illinois (W)
@ 9 win Washington on a 22 game home win streak (W)
@ 9 win Michigan (W)
Sure they lost to Indiana and Miami, but they didn't exactly play nobody all year long. There have been a lot more teams that made the playoffs with worse resumes than that.
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See "make mediocre teams look good" which explains how Michigan, UW, and Illinois had 9 wins. None of those teams were actually really good teams this year. We? feasted on a shit sandwich schedule to get to 9 wins.
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Maybe Husky fans will stop circling Ohio State as an automatic loss.
Buck scored 14 against Texas and 10 against Indiana and 14 against Miami
Washington needs to win against the B1G best not come close to be a serious contender
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Illinois, Washington and Michigan being 9 win teams highlights exactly the point.
These are not 9 win teams in the way we would think of such a thing 20 years ago.
In this current era, a 9 win team is like a 7-8 win team from the past. -
The extra game (11 v. 12) alone accounts for most of it.
The downscheduling in non-con is also big, esp for programs only scheduling G5 and below such as Washington.
But, the does the 9-game conference schedule negate some of the inflation? Definitely not for ACC and SEC up til next season.
What else inflates wins?
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The massive inflation in wins is due to the conferences getting watered down with filler schools. You face the good schools at the top of the conference less frequently.
Expansion always makes the product worse. Always.
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Ok, but how is the B1G objectively worse with Oregon, UW, UCLA, and USC?
Or the SEC with Texas and OU?
These are the two most recent expansions for the leading conferences.
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You're leaving out the Rutgers and Marylands of the world.
Also, the point is you will not play all the good teams each year when there are 18+ teams in the conference. There are only a handful of teams that are actually good each year.
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9 win teams have always been good, not great, teams. Not sure what your point is
See: 2014 UW as exhibit A
Lose 3-4 conference games, beat some random team in a bowl was always the 9 win formula
Lot of revisionism going on here.
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I’m struggling to remember the last time they lost a close game to a good team. They’ve lost close games to coug and Wisconsin level teams, beaten some good Oregon and Texas teams, and been blown out or not really competitive against Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, and Oregon.
