Alabama's Strength of Schedule
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No more triple option teams before Auburn please? And yes, I know the Citadel wasn't one when we scheduled them.
Fortunately, not many teams use it. Now watch the Barn come out in some hybrid spread triple option. [emoji6]
The main problem in getting someone to play is the time of year. Most every Power 5 school and most every Group of 5 school was playing conference games this weekend. The SEC - for some reason - only scheduled 3 in conference games this weekend. The 8 other SEC teams had an open week to try and fill with very few options. The SEC could fix this problem by scheduling conference games for every team in November and not having any open type weeks. There would be exception for the last week of games such as Ga vs Ga Tech, UK vs Lousiville, So Car vs Clemson, and Fla vs FSU.
There are 116 FBS teams outside of the SEC. One hundred of them were playing mandated conference games. The four East teams you reference always request an open date prior to their in-state rival game(s).
The best solution would be to go to nine conference games and the week be used for those games.
The dissolvement of the 2013-14 GT series and the 2016-17 Michigan State series had nothing to do with this weekend's game. Those led to Bama opening the season in the Kickoff games in those years.
I may not have your memory but I know your sense of humor
Hey ALA2262,
Thx for the info. I remembered that you had a very thorough answer about this when the Citadel was announced.
For Bama to schedule a FBS team on the next to last weekend of the season is virtually impossible. In 2015, for example, 90 of the remaining 113 (127-14SEC) FBS teams were playing conference games that weekend. Four of the remaining 23 were P5/IND playing conference mandated (BC at ND) or OOC (Rutgers at Army). Four of the remaining 19 were P5 that were either off (UT, TT, Neb) or playing OOC (FSU). None of which would come to Bama on that weekend even if given a return game. That leaves 15 non P5/IND FBS teams and apparently the ADs of those 15 have at least half a brain because Bama is the LAST place you want your team on that weekend needing two wins to become Bowl eligible.
I do know for a fact that the AD did try to schedule an FBS opp. but like you said it's virtually impossible. I'd love the 9th SEC game and CNS has advocated it for years. I wish when the media bashed the Bama schedule that they would at least point that out. Funny how EVERYTHING CNS says is front page and lead story except that and player safety which he ALWAYS been a SUPER ADVOCATE for.
Thx for the info. I remembered that you had a very thorough answer about this when the Citadel was announced.
For Bama to schedule a FBS team on the next to last weekend of the season is virtually impossible. In 2015, for example, 90 of the remaining 113 (127-14SEC) FBS teams were playing conference games that weekend. Four of the remaining 23 were P5/IND playing conference mandated (BC at ND) or OOC (Rutgers at Army). Four of the remaining 19 were P5 that were either off (UT, TT, Neb) or playing OOC (FSU). None of which would come to Bama on that weekend even if given a return game. That leaves 15 non P5/IND FBS teams and apparently the ADs of those 15 have at least half a brain because Bama is the LAST place you want your team on that weekend needing two wins to become Bowl eligible.
I do know for a fact that the AD did try to schedule an FBS opp. but like you said it's virtually impossible. I'd love the 9th SEC game and CNS has advocated it for years. I wish when the media bashed the Bama schedule that they would at least point that out. Funny how EVERYTHING CNS says is front page and lead story except that and player safety which he ALWAYS been a SUPER ADVOCATE for.
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