Stop calling our OOC schedule weak, it just isn’t

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- 09/18/2019 at 12:39 PM #105153
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  chinngiskhaan
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  @chinngiskhaan
  
  It’s certainly not strong, but BYU is looking like they might be pretty good, and NIU is an upper tier G5.
- 09/18/2019 at 12:44 PM #105154
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  Ute Bc
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  @utebc
  
  It’s weak. 3 non-P5 is weak. And slow your roll on the BYU is looking “pretty good”. We will see on that one.
- 09/18/2019 at 12:46 PM #105155
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  EagleMountainUte
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  @battlegroundute
  
  Tds won two games in OT against teams not taking them seriously. I still don’t know where to place them. NIU is a fair g5 win. IDSU is pathetic.
  - 09/18/2019 at 1:02 PM #105156
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    utefansince79
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    Was thinking perhaps NIU wasn’t that weak until they were crushed by the Cornhuskers.
    
    If BYU plays decently (wins or at least loses a competative game) against Washington, it would make us look better.
    - 09/18/2019 at 1:04 PM #105158
      
      Chidojuan
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      2nd road game will do that to you.
  - 09/18/2019 at 1:25 PM #105166
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    AlohaUte
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    @alohaute
    
    Sigh… message board people. You really think Tennessee didn’t take them seriously after they got rolled by Georgia State? I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
    - 09/18/2019 at 3:14 PM #105195
      
      EagleMountainUte
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      Tennessee is garbage and yes I think they are poorly coached and don’t take anything seriously. Anything negative you can say about a program can be said of the Voles.
- 09/18/2019 at 1:12 PM #105163
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  Chidojuan
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  @chidojuan
  
  OOC doesn’t matter right now. All that matters is winning. Maybe it matters in the future after the playoff is expanded. Right now, the goal for every P5 team is a playoff seed. Slim chance for most teams, but the formula is simple, win. Clemson’s conference schedule is probably the weakest it’s ever been. That’s the CONFERENCE. OOC is probably even weaker than Utah’s. Doesn’t matter. They win out and they’re in. Same with Alabama. OU has what should’ve been decent. Houston is pretty good but UCLA might find a way to lose to UTEP. Everything evens out in the end.
  - 09/18/2019 at 1:58 PM #105170
    
    PlainsUte
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    It will matter if there are 5 P5 conference champions and only 4 make it to the playoff.
    - 09/18/2019 at 4:20 PM #105204
      
      Chidojuan
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      @chidojuan
      
      There are 5 every year though. There haven’t been enough P-5 teams that went 12-0 or 11-1 for it to matter yet. Because of that, the schedule down mentality is what works for the teams at the moment. It will work through this year at least. Even if there are 5 undefeated teams, the Pac-12 isn’t getting in over the ACC this year, no matter how wimpy Clemson’s schedule isn’t. Clemson is essentially dragging the decomposing corpes of the entire ACC behind them, Bronco is trying to bring his team back a la Victor Frankenstein, but we’ll see how it ends up.
- 09/18/2019 at 2:14 PM #105174
  
  Central Coast Ute
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  @flip2848
  
  It’s not strong. Zero P5 opponents. If you want to call bypoo and NIU good G5 teams, fine. IDSU is a horrible FCS team so you can say the Utes have an average OOC schedule.
- 09/18/2019 at 2:21 PM #105178
  
  Sweetness
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  Northern Illinois lost last week 44-8 to Nebraska….they’re not upper G5 this year…probably more like a 4-5 win G5.
- 09/18/2019 at 2:52 PM #105186
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  PhiladelphiaUte
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  It’s weak. Leave it up to the zoobies to try to put lipstick on a pig. But as for us, let’s just own it.
  
  At some point, Harlan will have to notice that our 59th consecutive sold out game notwithstanding, fans really don’t want to see weak SOS opponents from locations we don’t recruit. At which point, perhaps we’ll start seeing a lot less of them.
  - 09/18/2019 at 3:55 PM #105200
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    Stone
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    It is weak, and fans may not like it. But it may actually be the best approach for the program (for now). Although fans love to see strong non-conference games on the schedule… and we LOVE it when we win those games, but there is increased odds of a nonconference loss and injuries. Until we have won the Pac12 outright, best to schedule down, avoid injuries, and get wins.
    
    Doing this increases our health for the conference schedule and essentially pads the W/L column so the team is almost always in a post-season bowl game and the overall record looks good every year, which then helps recruiting and becomes a virtuous cycle. I used to be of the opinion that we should schedule tough nonconference games only…but I have come around now that we are in the Pac12. Our conference games are the most critical. Nonconference is essentially preseason. If we start winning the Pac 12, I will change my opinion.
    - 09/18/2019 at 4:24 PM #105206
      
      PhiladelphiaUte
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      @philadelphiaute
      
      We could go 0-3 in the OOC slate, and STILL go to the Rose Bowl. The only thing an 0-3 (or 1-2 for that matter) OOC slate would do, would eliminate us from the CFP.
      
      You have a point with the “injuries” part, but I’ve always felt that Utah’s tendencies to play down to our level of competition defeats the purpose of playing weak SOS, and rather hurts us more than helps us.