RobertM320 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 9:46 am
First, you'd never beat Alabama. And yes, even with them on the schedule and beating them, an undefeated ULL team wouldn't make the Access Bowl. SOS is 90. Even Tulane has an SOS of 70. A 12-1 Tulane team, with a loss to Ohio State would still go to the Access Bowl before a 13-0 ULL team.
So would a 12-1 Boise State team, whose SOS is 69, and only has 3 teams outside the top 100 on their schedule, as compared to ULL having seven (more than half your schedule).
LOL. You made the blanket statement that a Sun Belt team could NEVER make the Access Bowl. I gave you an example of an undefeated Sun Belt team that could theoretically make it this year and without knowing how other teams will finish the year, you refuse to believe that it could ever be possible.
Had Cincy lost to any of the powerhouse programs on their schedule like Miami of Ohio, or Ohio, or Alabama A&M, or UConn, or SMU.....or even East Carolina, then Cincy wouldn't even be in this conversation.. Same goes for UCF, same goes for Boise State, same goes for all the other G5's.
Even considering that SOS is an important metric in deciding who goes to the Access Bowl, it's not the only metric, no? And SOS change year in and year out.....no one has a lock on the top SOS.
I certainly don't know the future wins and losses of all Sun Belt teams, nor their strengths of schedule and I doubt you do either. If you want to argue that the AAC and the MWC have traditionally been stronger conferences in football and most likely to be in the competition for the Access Bowl most years, you won't get any argument out of me. But to say, or imply, that it's impossible for a Sun Belt team to ever make to that game is silly imho.