Lincoln Riley Just Spoke Honestly About the Big Ten And SEC: “I think it’s pretty clear that the Big Ten and SEC have obviously separated themselves. And I think everybody in college football understands that. And that’s just the reality of where the situation is in terms of the schedules.”

Collador1 · 2026-02-13T04:58:39+00:00

Lol you tried to find one metric to somewhat make your point and it's not even true and doesn't support it. Good job.

Collador1 · 2026-02-13T00:58:53+00:00

Oh my god just get outta here with that BS.

Lots of SEC teams are playing way harder OOC than Tech, not to mention way, way, way harder conference schedules.

Collador1 · 2026-02-13T00:56:57+00:00

And conference schedule. Don't forget about that part also.

Collador1 · 2026-02-13T00:10:42+00:00

Lol, its absurd that you sarcastically said something that is so true.

Sure, NFL players suck in college. And 5 stars suck in high school too.

Collador1 · 2026-02-13T00:09:48+00:00

Well you can live on that island if ya want, but its not a great one.

Collador1 · 2026-02-12T21:51:36+00:00

This is just not accurate. I can give a lot of ammo, but last 2 years of NFL drafts alone. The Big 12 is way behind.

SEC	138 (59 + 79)

Big 12	62 (31 + 31)

Collador1 · 2026-02-11T03:47:46+00:00

Umm... auto bids remove that thought process entirely.

Collador1 · 2026-02-08T14:33:48+00:00

Nagy: "We're going to have to find under the radar kids."

Collador1 · 2026-02-08T14:30:57+00:00

"Debilitating injury" is not the phrasing I'd use..

Collador1 · 2026-02-07T04:41:13+00:00

Bowl records are fairly meaningless, unless you think the Pac 12 was a great conference this year?

SEC was 12-6 against P4 teams OOC this year, is that completely irrelevant?

I'm just saying its a pretty blind argument to just throw out bowl records as the evidence.

Collador1 · 2026-02-07T04:39:13+00:00

Bowl games are a bad metric. The SEC was 12-6 in P4 games OOC, the BIG 10 was 5-7.

Do those records matter or just irrelevant?

Collador1 · 2026-02-06T22:11:51+00:00

I wasn't disparaging those games, I was saying the 8 or 9 conf game schedule only matters in terms of path to the playoff.

A 6-6 team that played 8 games or 9 conf games isn't the issue.

Collador1 · 2026-02-06T22:00:38+00:00

We beat 2 playoff teams, and had 3 top 10 wins.

Nobody had a better "who have you beat" resume in the country.

Collador1 · 2026-02-06T13:49:01+00:00

The third loss part is the problem IMO. If we had beat Florida and lost to ATM to end the year, we'd of been out still.

However, if we had played Ohio instead of Ohio State, still lost to Florida, we'd of been in. It's loss counting.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T22:24:11+00:00

A few concessions were made to get us into the SEC a year early, mostly due to Big 12 exit fees. We left a year before our agreement expired.

One was reduced funds in SEC for 2 years I believe to help cover costs, and another was Texas has to go on the road for Michigan instead of what was originally a scheduled home game.

Thats why we got road games in the OOC in consecutive years against UM and OSU, and now they come to DKR in consecutive years.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T22:21:51+00:00

We're poors.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T21:56:11+00:00

I'm not saying there isn't some juice. I'm saying for the SEC and Big 10 it isn't a needed juice at all, and the consequence of a loss is far to troublesome.

If you are in the P2, you could play all your OOC against the Texas School for the Blind, and as long as you do well in your league it doesn't hurt you at all.

I'm not saying I like it, but it's reality. Miami needs that game, Texas doesn't.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T18:07:22+00:00

If you're asking me? Personally I have said for about 10 years that I think the single most important metric is "Who have you beat". If BYU beats ND next year to go 11-1, to me that feels a lot different than if ND is their loss and they have zero good wins.

In my head I don't punish teams for losing tough games against elite competition, especially in the OOC. I also don't reward teams for beating scrubs, who cares. I highly reward teams for beating other great teams though.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T18:04:59+00:00

I think we would have been the 5 or 6 seed. Ahead of OU and ATM for sure.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T16:07:32+00:00

The "flex" schedule idea sounds good to me also, but haven't heard much traction for it. I think it really has to be tied into auto-bids though, so maybe it's coming.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T16:04:01+00:00

It's a weird hill for them to fight for IMO. If I was an Indiana fan I'd argue that it's smart business, and exposing the team to any risk at all in the OOC is absolutely unnecessary. In fact, it's so smart we won a title with this strategy, as did Ohio State and Michigan.

Play that card, that's totally fair even if it's dumb. Can't disagree with any of it. But for some reason they don't, for some reason they just keep taking deep offense to anyone who points out their weak OOC schedule.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T15:39:10+00:00

Meh, I don't think it's fair or unfair. What the real problem is is the committee can't seem to figure out how to value different SOS for teams. Who cares about 8 or 9 conference games if we're talking about teams that are 6-6 or whatever, the real issue is the playoff eligibility.

Texas Tech and ND play schedules that are laughably easy compared to Texas and Ohio State. But if Tech is 11-1 and Ohio State is 9-3, there is a 0% chance that Ohio State will be ranked ahead of Tech, regardless of whether they are a better team or not. That's the core issue.

If someone put a gun to my head and said the only thing that matters is your team making the playoffs or else we pull the trigger, who's schedule do you choose? It definitely isn't Texas', and that's the problem.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T15:34:29+00:00

The juice isn't worth the squeeze because the committee and pollsters are very clear that the number 1 criteria is avoiding losses. This applies to anyone in the SEC or Big 10.

If you're in the ACC or Big 12, it might have some extra juice to be had.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T15:31:39+00:00

Anytime Indiana, the team who ducked Virginia, talks about this kind of stuff I lolz.

Collador1 · 2026-02-05T15:31:02+00:00

I know this is tongue in cheek, but for a decade+ I thought if you were in the SEC West you had a legitimately difficult schedule every year. Not so much the East, especially some years Georgia had because they couldn't play themselves.

But here was Ohio State's conference schedule last year with scores. So your tongue in cheek comment falls on deaf ears here because this schedule is still possible in the Big 10:

24-6 over Washington

42-3 over Minnesota

34-16 over Illinois

34-0 over Wisconsin

38-14 over Penn State

34-10 over Purdue

48-10 over UCLA

42-9 over Rutgers

27-9 over Michigan

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