LSU's Awesome OOC Schedule

For the SEC (except Florida maybe), I guess I just actually might mean traveling.

rcooke,

Not sure I understand this one.  Does this mean Florida gets a bye or does it mean they travel or what exactly?

What if a team plays lots and lots of BCS opponents but those opponents aren't necessarily outside the "region"?   Is there a difference in a good (not great) opponent that is say less than 1000 miles away vice a good (not great) opponent that is more than 1000 miles away?  Both opponents are BCS teams and both have a good CFB tradition....top 40 all time or so.

Cal wound up unranked but beat #12 Tennessee by 14 points. USF beat up #15 Auburn at Auburn. I would not get too hung up on the rankings.

Cal also went on to beat highly touted Oregon in Autzen Stadium.  An Oregon team that had Dennis Dixon.  They then had their QB get hurt and the team fell apart.  Thats why they call it college football.  Florida and Bama beat UT far worse than Cal did and Bama was no better than Cal.  And the year before average Tennessee badly beat PAC 10 Runner Up Cal, leading 35-0 before calling off the "Vols".

Exactly how did USF "beat up" Auburn when they won the game in Overtime?  USF went on to beat WVU for the second straight year.  They also fell apart at the end of the season.  It happens all the time, every year in college football  Teams start strong, fade in the middle and finish strong.  Teams start slow and finish strong.  Teams start fast and fade.

cooke, this is incorrect. LSU played 7 home games and 6 road games. Apparently you are counting Tulane as a home game. Do we also count games at UCLA, Stanford and Cal as home games for the Trojans?

Come again?

August 30 at Mississippi State W 45-0 1-0 (1-0)

September 8 No. 9 Virginia Tech W 48-7 2-0 (1-0)

September 15 Middle Tennessee W 44-0 3-0 (1-0)

September 22 No. 12 South Carolina W 28-16 4-0 (2-0)

September 29 at Tulane W 34-9 5-0 (2-0)

October 6 No. 9 Florida W 28-24 6-0 (3-0)

October 13 at No. 17 Kentucky L 43-37 6-1 (3-1)

October 20 No. 17 Auburn W 30-24 7-1 (4-1)

November 3 at No. 17 Alabama W 41-34 8-1 (5-1)

November 10 Louisiana Tech W 58-10 9-1 (5-1)

November 17 at Mississippi W 41-24 10-1 (6-1)

November 23 Arkansas L 50-48 10-2 (6-2)

December 1 No. 14 Tennessee W 21-14 11-2 (6-2)

January 7 vs No. 1 Ohio State W 38-24 12-2 (6-2)

I counted 5 away games. Maybe I am missing something? @ Miss st, @Tulane, @Kentucky, @Alabama, @Miss

LSU did play a better OOC last year. Notre Dame and Nebraska sucked. Hopefully, no one says that about USC this year with OSU coming to town!

They have had some awesome OOC away games. See Miami and Florida.

What if a team plays lots and lots of BCS opponents but those opponents aren't necessarily outside the "region"? Is there a difference in a good (not great) opponent that is say less than 1000 miles away vice a good (not great) opponent that is more than 1000 miles away? Both opponents are BCS teams and both have a good CFB tradition....top 40 all time or so.

-- Come on Bigdawg. You know what I mean very well. You are a smart guy. See Florida about the region. I mean more games not at home and against quality BCS opponents. I think traveling outside the region is a huge bonus because you usually do not bring a huge fan base. At least that was my experience with UCLA vs Alabama, USC vs Auburn and Cal vs Tennessee.

Peace.

rcooke32...a good post overall, but I have to clarify a few things..you must have "misthought" a few items

Yeah Cal was one of them..I think the Tenn win help them achieve that high ranking.

WAIT A MINUTE............was Cal #2  in the world or # 7 in the PAC? How about this theory...Cal peaked in the Tennessee grudge match they looked forward to all year after Tenn wasted them the year before. So Cal was better early but Tenn came on stong..When you look at the entire body of worked was the better team, who had the better season , who was ranked higher at the END of the year?  No disrespect to Cal, but did  they put alot of their eggs in the Tenn basket and then paid the price down the road?

I have said many times that these conferences are simliar in capability and honestly..WE WILL NEVER KNOW but the data lends credence to "where there is smoke..there is fire".

I personally think only scheduling 9 BCS teams is a joke in the first place - I believe the Pac 10 has the right format, play the teams in your conference then play another BCS conference team. And for all the grief ND gets for playing the service academies - they don't schedule Div 1aa teams and have over the years faced the strongest teams within the various conferences.

But this argument will never die - unless the NCAA creates a more balance rule on scheduling. I have said it many times, the SEC has great tradition - but this doesn't equate all the teams being good. It has been proven in other threads that the talent in the SEC is not spread throughout (NFL Draft) and, thus, the IC schedule should not be enough to validate an awful OOC schedule.