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[Rodman_Rob]

you never know what's going to happen any given saturday. that's why they play. just look at the upsets last weekend. you may call them cupcakes, but those cupcakes tend to focus their entire season on one or two games, the ones with highly ranked oponents, making them one tough cookie.

Originally Posted by Fishnngolfn

If one is to argue that the current setup forces a team to strive for perfection, then why do these so called powerhouses schedule "cupcakes" in their OOC schedule? If you are striving towards perfection, should you not want to play the best that is out there EVERY game and not just in your own conference?

The setup today forces teams to strive for perfection within their own conference. Teams feel that their conference schedule is strong enough to sufficiently rank them, so they do not strive for perfection outside of their conference. Most schools do schedule a few difficult opponents for the OOC schedule but most if not all strategically schedule a couple "cupcake-teams" essentially giving their team easy wins. Sure these cupcakes will pull an upset every now and then but you can't say with a straight face that the big win over Joe Schmo University had any influence over the ranking committee. All it does is pad their win column. You can argue that the team needs a rest, but isn't that what the bye weeks are for? Until teams try to fill their OOC schedule every week with the best teams out there, then the system today is flawed.


And yes I know UAB does the same thing, but I also have never argued that it was right. Beating Alabama State did nothing for us other than giving us a check in the win column. I would much rather lose to Tennessee, South Carolina, and similar OOC opponents than beat the snot out of St. Mary's Sisters of the Poor each week.