Conference-USA Wins Bowl Season
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But, but, but, "this is 'conference DOA' " and "this conference stinks" and "the MAC was tougher" and "we have to beg THE AMERICAN!!!!!!!!!!!! to let us in" and blah, blah, blah.
To be fair, the match ups in bowls in one year are not totally indicative of conference quality, but anybody who watches football without an anti MH and anti Doc agenda understands how good CUSA is and understands that expecting the team to win the league every year, and considering that to be a non-acomplishment, is unreasonable
GO HERD
C-USA Pelts:
Vanquished School (Record) / (Best Team That Team Beat)
South Florida (7-6) / (Georgia Tech 7-6)
Northern Illinois (8-6) / (BYU 7-6)
Toledo (7-6) / (Nevada 8-5)
Hawaii (8-6) / (Wyoming 6-6)
Vanquished School (Record) / (Best Team That Team Beat)
South Florida (7-6) / (Georgia Tech 7-6)
Northern Illinois (8-6) / (BYU 7-6)
Toledo (7-6) / (Nevada 8-5)
Hawaii (8-6) / (Wyoming 6-6)
With the number of key players sitting out of bowl games in order to "prepare for the draft", it's pointless to compare the "success" of teams/leagues in bowl match ups.
As of December 1st, here are the rankings that have C-USA ranked as the worst FBS conference:
Wobus, Laz index, Round Robin Win, Kirkpatrick, Payne, J-Train, Ford AMSTS, Accuratings, Ashburn,Coffey, Ludacille, Minton, Albert LMLRMC, Argh, Donchess Inference, Bihl, Dolphin, Fleming, Anderson, Hatch, England, Henderson, Howell, Singer, Massey, Whitlock, Pugh, Self, Simmons, Kislanko, Adjusted Stats EWP, Ashburn BCSC, Bassett-Stephenson, Dwiggins, Krach, Wobus, Colley, Boyd ISR, Huff Index, Wilson, Mangels, Sorensen, Logan, Rotham, Weighted Win Paths, Baker Bradley-Terry, Wolfe, Dokter Entropy, , Yochum Iterative, Knight, TeamRankings Pred, Phelan Power, Dunkel, Joby Nitty Gritty, Welch, Jelly Luke, Sagarin, Marsee B, Wilson Empirical, Temp-Free Gridiron, Dolphin Pred, Catherwood, BC Moore, Kellner, McCormick, The Power Rank, MJS Standings, RT Power, Golden, Football Power Index, Lawler, Daniel Currry Index, Sagarin Predictor, BM Craig, Morgan, Bassett, CSL, Stat Fox, USA Today Coaches, GB Eldredge, Associated Press, CFP Committee, Moore, Ken Stromness, CPI Ratings, Born, Pigskin, S&P, Mark, Reddit Poll, Nutshell, Burdorf, Yale USAG
Here are the rankings that don't have C-USA ranked as the worst conference:
Roundtable Retro, Regression Based, Pirate, Fremeau, Dezenzio RSRS, Rhamey, Congrove, Roundtable, MvG Sports, Keeper, Henderson, Billingsley, Wheelus, Loudsound.
That means there are about 93 systems that have C-USA ranked last and about 14 that have C-USA not ranked last.
Tell us again "how good C-USA is," Samantha.
I don't get the computer polls. I am aware they input data and use it to try and determine how good a team is. I am not convinced it always gets it right. I mean take a look at Sagrin right now. They have 8-5 Miss State at #7. FCS N Dakota State comes in at #19 with the 141 SOS. Here are a few other head scratch rankings on Sagrin. 8-5 Auburn and Missouri come in at # 15 and #17. To me, the computers have a place, but I still can't figure out how they are better than the eye test. Please tell me how Michigan is ranked ahead of Notre Dame! Please someone explain to me how the examples I used are not right.
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not me, better than Pac 12 for sure. Not as good as the SEC. After that maybe equal to ACC and Big 10
I believe the Sagarin rankings are completely screwed up. There is something wrong with the weights in the algorithm used in the calculations as there are very few FCS schools that should even be ranked better than #100 in the ratings. What happens is that upsets by FCS schools over FBS schools greatly skews the ratings with Sagarin.
Nearly as many "ranking systems" or entities as there are FBS teams. Meaning only that there is validity in the adage about "opinions and a**holes"!
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