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Mar 26, 2017
8:33:23pm

BamaCoug All-American

Agree, & the idea of BYU playing a P5-like sked is permeating into national...

... CFB writer's heads too.

Just a week or so ago there was this article:

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basketball/list/best-football-basketball-combination-college-sports-school-ohio-state-michigan-florida-wisconsin-stanford/1veb68whl8op21r9ibxy12nrzj/slide/9

With this quote: "The football team plays what is essentially a Power 5 schedule and won nine games in Kalani Sitake’s first season,"

Again, I'm not saying we have the hardest schedule in the nation, but our schedule is closer to P5 than to G5 by a long shot. I'm glad national writers are starting to see this, because apparently many in our own fanbase don't seem to want to.

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Don't tell me our schedule isn't p5-worthy & enticing recruits. Tre Greene tweet

BamaCoug

3/26/17 7:30pm

I don't think it is P5 worthy, but maybe better than any other G5

BlueFrog

3/26/17 7:34pm

#41 on this CBS article

Crush4

3/26/17 7:43pm

Playing LSU and Wisconsin helps with that. It's the 7 meaningless, awful games that make our

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 7:46pm

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kunarcougar

3/26/17 8:01pm

I'll give you a PAC 12 schedule at random. Let's say Oregon State.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:06pm

Let's do Washington now.

chilango

3/26/17 9:17pm

Already did.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:19pm

That was weak sauce. See my reply.

chilango

3/26/17 9:24pm

Agree. See my "not even close?" reply just below for some examples.

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:06pm

Don't be too dismissive of the games at ECU and at Hawaii, at least not yet. ECU

chilango

3/26/17 9:11pm

Our struggling in those games or not has nothing to do with the fact they are two of the worst teams in the country.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:20pm

Things can change very quickly in this regard; those who ignore history are

chilango

3/26/17 9:26pm

Why R you bringing data/facts into this argument? Everyone knows P5 schedules R

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:08pm

If we had a typical Big12 schedule, this board would be giddy about having our best and most

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:20pm

Not even close to a P5 schedule. Pretty decent schedule for us since going Indy though.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 7:36pm

Not even close?

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:05pm

I think those are night and day different because of their conference schedules. You said it best. Our last half of the

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:09pm

You give the P5 status too much credit IMO. We are stronger at the top of sked

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:23pm

I think it's absolute lunacy to say our schedule even compares. We play two great teams. 3 good teams. And 8 bad teams.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:28pm

Then how do you explain the CBS ranking of our schedule being harder than 25 P5?

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:40pm

LSU and Wisconsin help an awful lot. I don't know how you can look at a schedule with those

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:45pm

Don't like being wrong huh? You sound like the village idiot.

SaintGeorgeYFan

3/27/17 12:13am

Way to reply respectfully. You disagree. Great.

flavordave

3/27/17 10:01am

Actually, it's the nicest thing he has ever said to me. I thought it was kind of a nice moment.

The Dude Abides

3/27/17 10:03am

Pretty sure that's not a CBS ranking. That's some random dude named Matt Smith

Scratch

3/26/17 9:33pm

P.S. I could have missed something, but that's how it looks to me

Scratch

3/26/17 9:38pm

I think it's a relative difficulty, not an absolute one.

Byu_1988

3/26/17 10:11pm

Washington's schedule:

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:49pm

I see 4 bad games (counting Oregon State which BYU fans would call a good game simply because they're P5),

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:54pm

So BYU and the 25 P5 teams with worse schedules don't play a P5 schedule?

CougarThug

3/26/17 9:01pm

I disagree with the rankings you are referencing. I think in those rankings, we are getting

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:05pm

Arizona isn't bad? And what were their toughest road games, and how far away?

chilango

3/26/17 9:23pm

I'll give you Arizona is bad. Valid point. We're looking at teams on the schedule. We have

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:27pm

Your comment on road games and order of games as a component of SOS?

chilango

3/26/17 9:28pm

Okay. Neutral against LSU. Home against Wisconsin, Utah, Boise. Road game against Miss St.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:33pm

If you believe the game vs LSU is neutral, then please call my admin to set up

chilango

3/26/17 9:46pm

It's not being played in LSU's stadium. If you think it's a true road game, you need to understand how

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:50pm

If you really think playing LSU in Houston is neutral, then I'm done wasting my

chilango

3/26/17 9:55pm

Lol. They're stadium is one of the most intimidating places to play a game in all of college football. Lol

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 10:12pm

Guaranteed that KenPom would label this a "semi-away" game for the Cougs. No way is it "neutral"

HarlemCoug

3/26/17 10:39pm

Call it what you want. Just don't call it a true road game. It's way more neutral than road.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 10:41pm

Nice to see you switch the argument, from "it's really a neutral site, I

chilango

3/26/17 10:41pm

For what it's worth, Cougarboard would collectively flip out if we played this schedule.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:11pm

Agree CB would flip out 4 that Sked; because it would mean we're in the PAC12!

BamaCoug

3/26/17 9:14pm

You missed Washington.

chilango

3/27/17 10:29am

Tougher than 25 P5 scheds according to CBS...

yfootball

3/26/17 8:06pm

(Link) according to CBS how our sched ranks

thenational

3/26/17 8:24pm

Agree, & the idea of BYU playing a P5-like sked is permeating into national...

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:33pm

I think it's a better schedule than G5s. Not as good as P5 schedules.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 8:41pm

Yet better than 25 P5 schedules. Your argument ignores that little gem

CougarThug

3/26/17 9:03pm

I don't have the list. Who is one of the teams worse than us? I'll show you where I'm coming from. In fact, give me the

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 9:06pm

Oh please. Historically many SEC teams hardly ever even left their home state.

ArchbishopMitty

3/26/17 10:14pm

And if we played the schedules you are talking about, our fans would say it was our toughest schedule ever.

The Dude Abides

3/26/17 10:17pm

Not even close??? You just sound like a hater. It's pretty close IMO. Just my 2

RUNBYU1

3/27/17 10:14am

I would rather see a "WHO TRE COVERED IN '17" list ala Chad Johnson.

WhyKnot

3/26/17 7:41pm

You're crazy if you think are schedule is P5 worthy, with that said it is

ColumbusCoug

3/26/17 7:41pm

Indy is a good gig for BYU. Definitely more beneficial then G5 and in some ways

Mark320

3/26/17 7:43pm

Phil Steele ranks all of the schedules preseason. Anyone know what he ranked ours for 2017? I'd better it's better

HarlemCoug

3/26/17 7:44pm

It will be ranked better than many, easily.

Crush4

3/26/17 7:45pm

Excited about LSU, Utah, Wisconsin, and Miss. State.

Byu_1988

3/26/17 7:45pm

Boise State and ECU are great matchups

3/26/17 7:59pm

No MAC team on the schedule UMASS is Indy now

BYUFam1

3/26/17 8:33pm

This topic always comes up & a spitting contest quickly ensues. Think we can all agree that BYU schedules

soupie

3/26/17 8:19pm

Good points. But I'd quibble with your statement that our schedule "is tougher..

BamaCoug

3/26/17 8:37pm

Except for Memphis, Navy, Boise, Houston, Colorado st and I stopped

BlueFrog

3/26/17 8:41pm

Believe it was "far tougher than a typical G5" which I think is what you're saying too. Feel free to remove

soupie

3/26/17 8:43pm

And our schedules keep getting better too. We'll get where we need to go

3/26/17 10:35pm

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