Help me out here re: strength of record

[theboat]

I hear that SOR is supposed to be a combination of SOS and result. If it is a measurable metric, can someone explain it to me?

OkSt. #2

Central Mich: 5-5
Cent. Ark: 6-3
UTSA: 1-8
Texas: 4-5 ( shutout by ISU for crissakes)
KSU: 3-5
WVU: 4-4
Kansas: 0-9
Texas Tech: 5-5
TCU: 8-1

Total: 36-45, 1 top 25 win at home

Iowa #6

IL St: 7-2
Iowa St. : 3-6
Pitt: 6-3
NT: 1-8
Wisc: 8-2
IL :5-4
NW: 7-2
MD: 2-7
Ind:4-5

Total: 43-40, 2 top 25 wins on the road.

 

[FRANAMANIAC]

Anything that uses espn's FPI is a crock

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Basically, ESPN metrics are as follows:

--An $EC team gets extra points for schools that have tailgate parties featuring women with large breasts and a minimum of 60% of their teeth remaining
--$EC teams shall be awarded extra points just because they play each other. The results are inconsequential.
--When an $EC team loses at home, it doesn't count when the team that beat them loses three more games. It shall, by right, automatically strengthen their schedule.

 

[uihawk82]

ESPN and other pollsters also give extra ranking points for teams that play basketball on grass and score 50-60 points like baylor and Okie St, TCU etc.

Dont these pollsters know that the teams I mentioned above play against teams in the Big 12 that play terrible defense. And the teams above play about zero defense and their opponenst score quick which leads to more possessions per game which leads to more scoring.

It is almost like shot clock football. I bet the hawks have 30-40% fewer possessions per game than teams above and some spread ACC teams (although when I watch ACC teams they at least play some defense).

The hawks play tough defense yet these pollsters I dont think packing a defenses and special teams means much for Iowa but it gets points for Alabama and N Dame.

 

[guffus]

I think it has something to do with the odds that a team would be undefeated with the schedule it has.


although they have an overall weak schedule, its the fact that they played TCU is what makes it hard to go undefeated against that schedule. I guess thats harder than beating both Wisc and NW.

or something like that.

 

[PlatypusMessiah]

Long said Iowa's strength of schedule was better than any of the other undefeated teams other than Clemson. In all terrible things ESPN is doing, one of the worst is over -reliance on their FPI. College football fans endured nearly a decade of head scratching computer metrics. For some reason, ESPN thinks they have figured out a magical metric that will prove them right when Oklahoma crowned champion.