Originally posted by Horror Child
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You can call it victim all you want but the facts are the facts. Large part of the MEC going to 12 football playing members was to give every school a .500 SOS. Reasoning behind this was that teams behind the conf winner rarely got a playoff bid even though their W/L record was often better than even the #8 seeded team. The reason most often given for non-selection was poor SOS. A component of the SOS is Opponent Opponents winning % so every conference member takes a bite of the scheduling sandwich of every other conference team and the teams they chose to play. It's one thing if a school chooses to put a Clark Atlantic on their schedule...quite a bit different when the other 10 teams in the conference have to share in the penalty.
The MEC had a plan to address the SOS issue and they chose to abandon it so they have basically said, it is a non-issue to them. Don't want to hear any complaining from 2 loss MEC teams that lose out to other 2 or even 3 loss team(s) come playoff selection time because they had a lower SOS.
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