B1G to use "Flex Protect Plus" schedule in 2024 and 2025

ericd7633 said:
They're a top 10 program during this time frame. If you're a team like Auburn who already has to play Bama and UGA, adding another team like LSU is the definition of a gauntlet. No different than MSU having to deal with current Michigan, OSU and PSU.
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Yea that's the only reason Auburn has been a meh mediocre-average team lately.
 
Across The Field said:
Why? I never said they were elite either. I'm saying LSU isn't close to being on the level of Bama or current Georgia the overwhelming majority of the time.
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Okay… but they are a hell of a lot better than Sparty…even with some shitty coaching for a few years.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
I used to work with a guy who was a Kentucky fan, he legit believed Kentucky would be a football power house if they played in the Big 10 instead of the SEC.
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He’s living in a low rent dream world. They’d be about like they are in the SEC if they were in the B1G…same, same.
 
ericd7633 said:
Said this before, but they finished .500 in SEC play. Give them an OOC schedule they likely are 8-4. That team wasn't bad. Obviously, not up to LSU standard, especially coming off the year they had.
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I don't see how that makes them a good team because you're tacking on a shitty OOC against some weak G5 schools to prop up their record. That LSU team was not good, any way you cut it.
 
Deep Creek said:
He’s living in a low rent dream world. They’d be about like they are in the SEC if they were in the B1G…same, same.
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This was a common attitude of fans of the lesser SEC teams back when the SEC really started taking over college football.

"we only arent good because of our conference!'
 
ericd7633 said:
They're a top 10 program during this time frame. If you're a team like Auburn who already has to play Bama and UGA, adding another team like LSU is the definition of a gauntlet. No different than MSU having to deal with current Michigan, OSU and PSU.
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Eh, Sparty is top 15. They have their years but I'm not gonna say our schedule is a gauntlet because of them.
 
Across The Field said:
I don't see how that makes them a good team because you're tacking on a shitty OOC against some weak G5 schools to prop up their record. That LSU team was not good, any way you cut it.
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They weren't

even if they played a OOC and went 8-4/7-5 because they packed on a couple wins against OOC tomato cans they woulda been a below average team of that record.

They lost to Missouri, Auburn & Miss State, 3 other below average teams.

Got blown out by Bama and the Texas A&M game was non competitve (it was 20-7 but that 7 came with 38 seconds left in the game)

They upset Florida but that was it, nothing about that LSU team says they were anything above below average.
 
Deep Creek said:
Okay… but they are a hell of a lot better than Sparty…even with some shitty coaching for a few years.
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Hell of a lot better? Not so sure about that. They have higher highs just because of the talent they can pull in, but outside of that wild 2019 season (which is looking like a total anomaly at this point), they're basically Sparty for the last decade.
 
osubuckeye89 said:
They weren't

even if they played a OOC and went 8-4/7-5 because they packed on a couple wins against OOC tomato cans they woulda been a below average team of that record.

They lost to Missouri, Auburn & Miss State, 3 other below average teams.

Got blown out by Bama and the Texas A&M game was non competitve (it was 20-7 but that 7 came with 38 seconds left in the game)

They upset Florida but that was it, nothing about that LSU team says they were anything above below average.
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Bingo. That was a very mediocre team. I'd probably compare it to 2019 MSU - went 7-6, beat Wake Forest in their bowl game, 4-5 in B1G play, lost to Arizona State in OOC. Just very average.
 
Across The Field said:
Bingo. That was a very mediocre team. I'd probably compare it to 2019 MSU - went 7-6, beat Wake Forest in their bowl game, 4-5 in B1G play, lost to Arizona State in OOC. Just very average.
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I love this thought that 8 wins automatically makes a team good too. 8 wins doesnt necessarily make a team anything more than average either. Not all 8 win teams are created equal

Look at Maryland last year

8 Wins but their best regular season wins were against 7-6 SMU and 5-7 Sparty

Nobody is out here claiming Maryland as a top end win though, people would claim that with a 8 win LSU team that lost to the 4 best teams they played and managed to beat 8 bad-mediocre teams.
 
^^^ Ole Miss is a grand example of this in the SEC last year.

They were still trying to talk them up as a "GREAT WIN!" for Bama even though they lost 4 of their last 5 regular season games.

All because they started 7-0, of course they did, best team they had to play to that point was Kentucky who ended up 7-6
 
So let me get this straight, some teams have 3 teams they play every year and some have none? This makes sense how?
 
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