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Murderers' Row

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Our "woe is me" non-conference opponents went an impressive 0-3 this week, including a home loss to Southern Utah.
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SMU's Strength of Schedule according to Sagarin is diving at No. 80 in the Country meaning close to the bottom 1/3 in the Country. As I have said this ain't a tough schedule. Never was a tough schedule for a school allegedly "moving up to a BCS Conference." In fact I'll suggest that SMU has the EASIEST in conference schedule of ANY TEAM that has ever played in a BCS Conference because we ducked Louisville. We had the easiest route to the BCS ever with this schedule since we could have made a BCS Bowl without beating a team ranked in the Sagarin Top 25

Ha! I see LA Mustang made thge same argument about an hour ago
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Where does our OOC strength of schedule stand? More important stat than overall. Probably still harder than UL, UC or UH. UCF may be the toughest in the AAC.
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The average rank of our non-conference opponents in Sagarin is 64.75 rounded to No. 65
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but wait, wait! we played all those 'big' guys that used to be in our conference. Obviously, those who calculate those stats haven't talked to our AD/coach who thought our OOC was waYYYYYYYYYY too hard.
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We were TCU's best game of the year for them...They have not put 40+ on anyone this year except SELA
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feelthehorsepower wrote:We were TCU's best game of the year for them...They have not put 40+ on anyone this year except SELA
OR maybe we're just that bad and they play in something called the Big XII.
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feelthehorsepower wrote:We were TCU's best game of the year for them...They have not put 40+ on anyone this year except SELA
Hate to tell you this. . . TCU didn't even put 40+ on SELA. . . TCU won 38-17
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LHS81 wrote:
feelthehorsepower wrote:We were TCU's best game of the year for them...They have not put 40+ on anyone this year except SELA
Hate to tell you this. . . TCU didn't even put 40+ on SELA. . . TCU won 38-17
Wow so we were TCU's highest scoring game...48-17...jeez
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on the other hand we held A&M to its second lowest point total only 1 behind its lowest point total
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Stallion wrote:on the other hand we held A&M to its second lowest point total only 1 behind its lowest point total
LOL - that was a favor from Kevin Sumlin to June Jones. They could have scored 90 on us in all honesty.
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Stallion wrote:on the other hand we held A&M to its second lowest point total only 1 behind its lowest point total
Yeah, good thing Sumlin called off the dogs in what the second quarter? I wonder if he felt like the onside kick was a rhymes with tick move so eased off the throttle later.
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LHS81 wrote:
feelthehorsepower wrote:We were TCU's best game of the year for them...They have not put 40+ on anyone this year except SELA
Hate to tell you this. . . TCU didn't even put 40+ on SELA. . . TCU won 38-17
SE Louisiana is ranked 38 spots higher than SMU in Sagarin and actually gave TCU a better game. Seriously, I'm not sure who SMU beats on TCU's schedule which actually is a Top 20 schedule. Kansas is the only team ranked below SMU on TCU's schedule at 112 while SMU is 110.
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Stallion wrote:In fact I'll suggest that SMU has the EASIEST in conference schedule of ANY TEAM that has ever played in a BCS Conference because we ducked Louisville.
Wrong...whoever got to duck UCF has an easier schedule (38-35)
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we'll see-maybe-season not over. But Louisville is ranked 8 spots better in Sagarin. I know I'd rather play UCF at home than UCF and Louisville on the road like UH
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