Posted by moranis on 11/18/2015 9:30:00 PM (view original):
that is why I said generally and then changed it up to ranks. 8-2 App St. won't be ranked 10th, but 8-2 Michigan might be.
You ignored that part. So I'll ask again, what is more difficult beating the 10th and 100th ranked teams or beating the 54th and 56th ranked teams?
I think it depends again. Sure the 10th ranked team is clearly the toughest opponent, but the 100th is also the worst.
So from the USA today 1-128 rankings it would be:
Michigan State and Rice verse playing Texas Tech and NC State
I go with Tech and State being the harder games. Sure MSU is easily the toughest game, but Rice is a cupcake. Tech and NC State are both easily capable of putting up a fight.
Going off my rankings it would be:
Michigan and Syracuse verse Southern Mississippi and Arkansas State.
There I go with Michigan and Syracuse being tougher.
Since it depends a lot thats why I like the simplistic overall opponent win% to determine sos and I think for the most part it comes out to be correct, there is really only 1 controversial team in Navy. If I wanted a non-controversial poll I wouldn't have made one and just used the AP Poll. This is supposed to provide insight besides just eye test and bias.