KillerFrog InD KitchenSink
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Did a quick spreadsheet looking at schedules, ranking all Big 12 teams from top to bottom based on Massey composite averages.
Some observations:
- Most of the league is in a tight range- no great teams (although Tech has an argument- probably under-ranked in this composite), and no real bad teams, other than the outlier OSU. Getting OSU, especially on the road, is an advantage.
- As always, teams with 5 home games have a scheduling advantage, especially ASU, who only has three more road games.
- OTOH, ASU is one of only 2 teams to play 3 of the four teams ranked in top 25 of the composite. BYU is the other. Tech and Baylor only play one of the current top four.
- Using the arbitrary cutoff of 50 for "bottom 5 teams), ASU plays only 2 of the bottom 5 teams. TCU, ISU, KU, Utah, and UCF play 4 (Arizona also plays for but the KSU win was "nonconference"). All of KU's bottom 5 games are at home. TCU meanwhile plays both their bottom 3 games (KSU and WVU) on the road.
- This is a big game- one of our three "toughest" looking ones at this point (along with @BYU and home against ISU).
Here is a Kelley Ford tweet of B-12 projections. KU with third most projected wins a slight surprise, but I do think does have one of the easier schedules and has a banked win (and is a solid team).
Some observations:
- Most of the league is in a tight range- no great teams (although Tech has an argument- probably under-ranked in this composite), and no real bad teams, other than the outlier OSU. Getting OSU, especially on the road, is an advantage.
- As always, teams with 5 home games have a scheduling advantage, especially ASU, who only has three more road games.
- OTOH, ASU is one of only 2 teams to play 3 of the four teams ranked in top 25 of the composite. BYU is the other. Tech and Baylor only play one of the current top four.
- Using the arbitrary cutoff of 50 for "bottom 5 teams), ASU plays only 2 of the bottom 5 teams. TCU, ISU, KU, Utah, and UCF play 4 (Arizona also plays for but the KSU win was "nonconference"). All of KU's bottom 5 games are at home. TCU meanwhile plays both their bottom 3 games (KSU and WVU) on the road.
- This is a big game- one of our three "toughest" looking ones at this point (along with @BYU and home against ISU).
Here is a Kelley Ford tweet of B-12 projections. KU with third most projected wins a slight surprise, but I do think does have one of the easier schedules and has a banked win (and is a solid team).
