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Does Strength of Schedule Really Even Matter? ‖ Dave Bartoo · Out of Bounds with Bo Bounds

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  Speaker 1: Two. Good morning. How are you, bud?
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely gorgeous outside. Heat's already coming yo.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but no, actually you don't.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to go twelve and zero and eleven
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  Speaker 2: and one anymore in the SEC four and eight with
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  Speaker 2: a strong strength of schedule should.
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  Speaker 1: Gets in, right? I love it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: It is strength of schedule apparently now makes you better
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  Speaker 2: as a team without playing a game.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Notre Dame's going to be proof that strength of
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  Speaker 3: schedule doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: How long have I been saying that, right, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: There's no correlation to the quality of the team, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I get it, you know, maybe it's a strength
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  Speaker 2: of record thing.
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  Speaker 1: Stop saying strength to schedule. Okay, you know, but.
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  Speaker 2: What are you gonna do when it's strength of schedule
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  Speaker 2: that divides your Let's say we're down to one one spot.
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  Speaker 1: In the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, guy, there's two teams on the block, both nine
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  Speaker 2: and three, right, they're both SEC. One's LSU, one's Missouri, right, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's we were talking about the brands, right, which one's
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  Speaker 2: Greg want to go LSU?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But even that's okay, Even if there's strength of
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  Speaker 2: schedules worse, right.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, it's it's trying to have your cake
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  Speaker 1: and eat it too.
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  Speaker 2: Sure took the money, Sure we went to nine and
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  Speaker 2: now we want to change the rules of ranking teams.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if that's net. So this is
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  Speaker 3: all played off of the media too, and and and
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  Speaker 3: other and other media from other conferences watching what happens
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  Speaker 3: this week. I mean, I don't think that's been like
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  Speaker 3: the main narrative in Tampa, you know, But I think
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  Speaker 3: he gets asked questions and he's like, you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: he did say we had a we had a conversation
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  Speaker 3: with the College Football Playoff Committee and it was unsatisfactory.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, do I know exactly what was I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I guess, hey, we're going to nine games,
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  Speaker 3: plus we're playing a P four team. What does that
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  Speaker 3: do to do anything for y'all? I mean, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: play ten power for games, yeah, you know. Or it
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  Speaker 3: looks like now, like you said yesterday, Greg is telling
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  Speaker 3: his presidence, Greg Sankee for our listeners, SEC Commissioner, it
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  Speaker 3: looks like Greg SANKEI he's not telling because he answers
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  Speaker 3: to the presidents, But it looks like as they collaborate
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  Speaker 3: and work together that Sankei and the SEC presidents and
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  Speaker 3: sec A ds have decided to opt out a power
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  Speaker 3: for non con game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've seen a couple of those, right, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and unfortunately, the the the less we have for
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  Speaker 2: non conference, the more the conferences play.
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  Speaker 1: Themselves, the worse our strength of schedule gets. Right, But
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  Speaker 1: nobody no bases of comparison.
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  Speaker 3: Now, right, But everybody the other three conferences are just
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  Speaker 3: as much to blame too, because they're.
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  Speaker 1: Not they're not doing it either, right, right, And so
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what happens with Clemson. You know, here,
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  Speaker 1: here's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: What happens. I mean, it's not going to be the
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  Speaker 3: end of the world, But what happens with Clemson South Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: Does anybody really care?
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Georgia Tech.
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  Speaker 3: But that's another kind of staple non con that's always played,
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  Speaker 3: right Florida, Florida State, which hasn't had the sizzle the
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  Speaker 3: last fifteen years, but man, when Bobby Bowden and Steve
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  Speaker 3: Spurrier were there, it was an all out throw.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it was it was the game of the
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  Speaker 1: year a lot of years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was you know, everybody look forward to that, right,
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  Speaker 2: You know, and I think we'd all agree, is when
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  Speaker 2: the big brands are better, if everything is is it's
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  Speaker 2: just more fun. Yes, right, we want to see Catholics
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  Speaker 2: Convicts both in the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: No question.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you just made a good point Miami being
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  Speaker 3: back for the first time in twenty five years. Right,
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  Speaker 3: Miami had decided to drive their football program right off
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  Speaker 3: the train tracks, and Mario has done a good job
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  Speaker 3: putting that back together. So that's a great point. Miami
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  Speaker 3: is one of those ones that jumped back up and
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  Speaker 3: decided to become to get in the VP party last year.
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  Speaker 1: To to be to be a lead again, right right, good.
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  Speaker 3: Lord they were, They had some players, right, Mario is
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  Speaker 3: a I don't know who's bench pressing more this morning, Mario,
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  Speaker 3: crystal Ball or Brent Vennables, but it's got to be
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  Speaker 3: one hell of a competition. They should do that. That
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  Speaker 3: would make SEC media days interesting