OFFICIAL CAFE Top 25 Week 4

[Tavish]

Those of you with Mizzou outside the Top 10 have way too much man-love with the SEC and PAC-10. The Tigers have a 10 point loss at Oklahoma (where the Sooners have lost two games in 8 years) and a beatdown on the rest of their relatively strong SOS. Seriously, 3 loss Auburn or 3 loss Florida ahead of them?

[deerayfan072]

Those of you with Mizzou outside the Top 10 have way too much man-love with the SEC and PAC-10. The Tigers have a 10 point loss at Oklahoma (where the Sooners have lost two games in 8 years) and a beatdown on the rest of their relatively strong SOS. Seriously, 3 loss Auburn or 3 loss Florida ahead of them?

Yes, UF could beat them

[Tavish]

Those of you with Mizzou outside the Top 10 have way too much man-love with the SEC and PAC-10. The Tigers have a 10 point loss at Oklahoma (where the Sooners have lost two games in 8 years) and a beatdown on the rest of their relatively strong SOS. Seriously, 3 loss Auburn or 3 loss Florida ahead of them?

Yes, UF could beat them

Stanford did beat USC, so they should be ahead of USC. Anyone can beat anyone, there really isn't much justification to put any 3-loss team over a 1-loss team when the SOS is relatively similar.

[Free Bagel]

I agree that Mizzou is a top 10 team but calling their SoS comparable is ridiculous, and saying it's "relatively strong" is a complete joke. Sure, they've only lost to Oklahoma. And they've beaten....who, exactly? The Big 12 is totally top-heavy this year. The middle of the conference is just complete and utter trash. The problem with this is that Mizzou has played only 1 of those top-heavy teams, and they lost that game.

The rest of their schedule is:
Illinois - mediocre
Ole Miss - garbage
Western Michigan - garbage
Illinois State - garbage
Nebraska - garbage
Texas Tech - slightly better than garbage
Iowa State - garbage
Colorado - slightly better than garbage
Texas A&M - garbage

In fact, you guys should've never brought this argument up. After actually looking at things more closely I'm a whole lot less impressed with this team than I thought. Think I'll bump them down a few spots.

The best thing the Big 12 did this year was making sure their elite teams hardly play each other so they can all get ranked highly after beating up the trash that is the middle/bottom of that conference.

[knapplc]

The best thing the Big 12 did this year was making sure their elite teams hardly play each other so they can all get ranked highly after beating up the trash that is the middle/bottom of that conference.

I was at the meeting where they planned all that, too.

[Free Bagel]

The best thing the Big 12 did this year was making sure their elite teams hardly play each other so they can all get ranked highly after beating up the trash that is the middle/bottom of that conference.

I was at the meeting where they planned all that, too.

Heh, didn't mean to imply it was intentional. It just worked out nicely that way.

[Tavish]

NCAA Football SOS
Oregon - 2
UF - 5
LSU - 9
UGA - 11
VT - 15
Auburn - 22
Mich - 33
BC - 34
ASU - 38
Missouri - 39
OSU - 46
OU - 55
KU - 72
WVU - 75
USC - 95
Hawaii - 120

The differences between MIzzou's and Florida's or Georgia's schedule are much closer than comparing something like Florida or Mizzou to USC. They all have a couple of wins over teams in that 25-35 range and the rest are wins over crap teams. None of them have beaten anyone that are powerhouses.