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SOS formula is basically comprised of two components: record of opponents and record of opponent's opponents

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Which may be the worst possible way to do it.

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I'm not here to defend the committee, but what a mess they have on their hands with the Ole Miss situation. How do you seed the Rebs knowing that their coach is likely leaving and taking a lot of the players with him?

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Not likely leaving, he has left.

Luke The Drifter said:

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There are only 136 FBS teams and you mean to tell me we played a 100+ strength of schedule? C'mon…nobody believes that. I get that we didn't play the top of the SEC, but no reasonable metric has us with a 100+ SoS.

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Now do TT, Oregon, and IU REAL SOS. And TT lost to an unranked team, and the big 12 is cold garbage period.

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Who?mikejones! said:

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BMX Bandit said:

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Who?mikejones! said:

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Random guy on Twitter is wrong. Theres no reasonable way our sos is anywhere near 100 or that Indiana, osu or oregon or Notre dame have anywhere close to our schedule

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Have you even paid attention? The committee constantly bags on our schedule. So which ranking are they using? Please tell us.


I think the SoS they use is complete garbage. But it's what they use.

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Yes, I k ow they dogged our schedule. Which made no sense when anyone with Google could pull up osu, iu, tech, Oregon, Ole miss' schedule a.d see they are **** too.

Makes sense now if they have some super secret formula that we can't see.

Its so ****ing stupid

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If you're mad now, I bet you'd be thrilled to learn that the committee's SOS formula is basically comprised of two components: record of opponents and record of opponent's opponents. That's it. That's the formula.

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So the record of crappy opponents playing crappy opponents. Got it.

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SOS formula is basically comprised of two components: record of opponents and record of opponent's opponents

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Which may be the worst possible way to do it.

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Yes, and it's intentional. It benefits all conferences except the conference with the most talent (the SEC). The Big 10, Big 12, ACC, and G5 will all fight hard to make sure that metric continues to be used because it does not give SEC teams any credit for playing more talented teams every week.

The twitter guy prediction has Ole Miss at 6 this week. Will committee lower them for no Kiffin?

To me, they should. But I don't think they will.

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The twitter guy prediction has Ole Miss at 6 this week. Will committee lower them for no Kiffin?

To me, they should. But I don't think they will.

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Because Kiffin is tampering with the Committee and has admitted that?

Turns out no.

Losing to your top 15 rival on the road week 12 is worth 4 spots though

Wonde rif final rankings will include moving teams around to avoid rematches in the first round

Comes down to the terrible SOS they use.

If we're really ranked in the 100s according to their outlier poll, we're screwed

We really were.

Don't have this week yet, but it will be improved but still low.

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We are also 8th in game control.

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Where are you seeing this?

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https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume

Thanks.

Do we know if this is the one the committee uses?

To answer my own question: Don't think it is.

This is an absurd SoS number. Complete garbage metric

7 #TAMU #GigEm
Projected: 7✅

SOS 91
QW 3
T25W 1
GC 14.1

Ive been saying for weeks if the #Aggies lost, they would tumble. W/a SOS this low, GC has to be impressive to get a pass. GC is 3rd worst in the poll. Where #Sooners got a pass for good SOS, #Aggies are penalized.

— Adam McClintock (@cfb_professor) December 3, 2025

I simply will.nevwr ever understand their sos ranking. Its quite comical they have the super special one that agrees with no others.

It's based on win-loss of opponents. No algorithm. So beating a 8-4 Sunbelt team is better than beating a 6-6 SEC team. Dumb as hell

Don't stop with just the crappy SOS ranking. It gets worse. They define a quality win (QW) as a win over any team with a record above .500.

You'll notice we went from 5QW last week to 3 this week. That's because UTSA and USU both lost dropping them to 6-6. Which means, 40% of our "quality wins" were cupcake games at home in September.

This is actually a significant metric that they use.

Correction: QW = any FBS team over.500

Who?mikejones! said:

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I simply will.nevwr ever understand their sos ranking. Its quite comical they have the super special one that agrees with no others.

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It is 2/3rd opp win%, 1/3rd oppopp win%. FCS opp losses count in that tally but not their wins.

— Adam McClintock (@cfb_professor) December 1, 2025

Great catch.

What a joke.

He finally coughed it up!

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Don't stop with just the crappy SOS ranking. It gets worse. They define a quality win (QW) as a win over any team with a record above .500.

You'll notice we went from 5QW last week to 3 this week. That's because UTSA and USU both lost dropping them to 6-6. Which means, 40% of our "quality wins" were cupcake games at home in September.

This is actually a significant metric that they use.

Correction: QW = any FBS team over.500

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Incredible

Samford's 11 losses really dragging that SoS down, can't even include their one win against VMI, but do get VMI 11 losses too (1/3 oppopp win %)

5 #Oregon #GoDucks
Projected: 5✅

SOS 43
QW 4
T25W 1
GC 23.3

The #Ducks enjoy good GC & good SOS. QWs are good & 1 T25W isn't ideal but with a GC at 23.3 they get a pass. Eugene will be rocking the first round of the playoffs.

— Adam McClintock (@cfb_professor) December 3, 2025

Montana ST
OKST
Northwestern
Oregon ST
Penn ST
IU - L
RUTG
WISC
IOWA
MINN
USC
WASH

48! Slots better. No way. That calculation sucks.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!

That is the dumbest thing I have seen.