http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/24244718/stanford-cardinal-coach-david-shaw-says-cfp-look-schedules
College is supposed to be where the smart people are Shaw. If you and other schools aren't bright enough to manipulate the system then maybe you/they should get some extra tutoring.
Not sure I'm following your comment. Shaw doesn't get to set his own schedule. Or are you saying he should just do like the SEC and start scheduling easier cupcakes?
Personally I think he's pretty smart...
"How the schedule lays out may be more important than strength of schedule," Shaw said. "What I mean by that is, if you look at USC last year, to play 11 straight games without a bye -- all Division I opponents, no I-AA opponents, and play right into the Pac-12 championship game and win that one -- that to me is more impressive than just having a strong schedule but then having a Week 7 bye, or a Week 8 I-AA opponent, which kind of gives you a break."
Last season was the first since 1995 that USC played the entire regular season without a bye week. Its two losses were on the road -- a Friday night at Washington State, and Oct. 21 at Notre Dame. In spite of beating Stanford for the Pac-12 title, USC finished No. 8, right behind three-loss Auburn, which had a bye week between back-to-back road games against Arkansas and Texas A&M.
They only problem there is that he can't count to 12...which is the number of consecutive games we played without a bye.
I'm saying he's whining. His AD and the Trojan AD had/have the same scheduling opportunities as the SEC schools that he is aiming his shitball at.
The Trojans took a chance and it bit them in the ass. Making those big OOC matchups means you have to actually 'win' those games. You can't get beat by ND
49-
14 and expect to get in the F4 no matter how impressive your SOS resume is. Having to go to double overtime
at home against an eventual 6-6 team doesn't help his whining case either.
