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Originally Posted by dynalow
Back to the BCS, if you're a Trojan fan and want to play LSU, then schedule them in Sept. Drop the Idahos and Applachian States from your schdeules. Forget these tune-up games.
I know the schedule is contracted up to 10 years out. But if your school wants to be the top dog, schedule the big dogs. Div 1-A schools shouldn't schedule Akron or Toldeo or Temple, then gripe about being short changed.
Too many conference teams, too few games to play. Make the two or three non-conference games you play mean something. Make strength of schedule mean something too.
My $.02
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Jim, have you been riding your bike without a helmet?
Surely you did not mean to imply that USC has a soft schedule, did you?
Look at this:
USC's schedule:
2. Sat., Sep 1 Idaho W 38-10
4 Sat., Sep 15 @Nebraska W 49-31
5 Sat., Sep 22 Washington State W 47-14
6 Sat., Sep 29 @Washington W 27-24
7 Sat., Oct 6 Stanford L 24-23
8 Sat., Oct 13 Arizona W 20-13
9 Sat., Oct 20 @Notre Dame W 38-0
10 Sat., Oct 27 @Oregon L 24-17
11 Sat., Nov 3 Oregon State W 24-3
12 Sat., Nov 10 @California W 24-17
14 Thur., Nov 22 @Arizona State W 44-24
15 Sat., Dec 1 UCLA W 24-7
Except for ND (which was ranked #6 last year but collapsed this year); Nebraska (a perennial top 10 team that also collapsed this year) and Stanford (which beat Cal, a formerly top ranked team) that is one tough schedule. At one point or the other most of the schools that USC played were top ranked. And when USC scheduled ND and Nebraska there was no way to know they were going to collapse the way they did this year.
Now, let's look at OSU's schedule:
2 Sat., Sep 1 Youngstown State W 38-6
3 Sat., Sep 8 Akron W 20-2
4 Sat., Sep 15 @Washington W 33-14
5 Sat., Sep 22 Northwestern W 58-7
6 Sat., Sep 29 @Minnesota W 30-7
7 Sat., Oct 6 @Purdue W 23-7
8 Sat., Oct 13 Kent State W 48-3
9 Sat., Oct 20 Michigan State W 24-17
10 Sat., Oct 27 @Penn State W 37-17
11 Sat., Nov 3 Wisconsin W 38-17
12 Sat., Nov 10 Illinois L 28-21
13 Sat., Nov 17 @Michigan
Youngstown State? Akron? Kent State? Purdue? Hey, they forgot to play Dayton H.S. and Cleveland Tech.
Finally for LSU:
2 Thur., Aug 30 @Mississippi State W 45-0
3 Sat., Sep 8 Virginia Tech W 48-7
4 Sat., Sep 15 Middle Tennessee W 44-0
5 Sat., Sep 22 South Carolina W 28-16
6 Sat., Sep 29 @Tulane W 34-9
7 Sat., Oct 6 Florida W 28-24
8 Sat., Oct 13 @Kentucky L 43-37 (OT)
9 Sat., Oct 20 Auburn W 30-24
11 Sat., Nov 3 @Alabama W 41-34
12 Sat., Nov 10 Louisiana Tech W 58-10
13 Sat., Nov 17 @Mississippi W 41-24
14 Fri., Nov 23 Arkansas L 50-48 (OT)
15 Sat., Dec 1 Tennessee
Miss. State? Middle Tenn? Tulane?
We can go on and on and on about what team has the toughest schedule. LSU has a decent team (Miles is lucky that his teams always play beyond his abilities as a coach) and OSU is not half bad either.
One thing you can't say, however, is that USC has a patsy schedule.
I can deal with the fact that USC is "hated" because it is the big dog in America's most exciting city and the big fish in America's biggest media outlet. I can deal with the fact that we are "hated" because we have the hottest looking cheerleaders.
And I can even deal with the fact that we are "hated" because the heart of the entertainment industry is right smack at the corner of Fig and Jefferson (a film school so exclusive that not even Steven Spielberg could get accepted).
But I won't accept anyone stating that USC has a patsy schedule when the two teams playing for the BCS National Title played schools like Akron and Miss. Tech.