Griz vs Cats Strength of Schedule through Week 9

[HookedonGriz]

Don’t let any of your Cats buddies try to claim they have a much stronger SOS than the Griz. Quite literally the ONLY reason their SOS is high at all is due to one game….Oregon. If you look at just the FCS match ups, the Griz actually have a better SOS:

Cats:

SDSU - 98
San Diego - 201
Mercyhurst - 236
E wash - 185
NAU - 150
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
UNC - 200
Total - 1440/8 =-180 avg

Griz:

UND - 87
Indy St - 186
Idaho - 139
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
Sacred Heart - 210
Sac St - 132
Weber St - 191
Total - 1315/8 =-164.3

There are a lot of Cats fans very confused on this. Image that

 

[Skookum-Jim]

So you took out central Washington from the griz schedule and Oregon from the cats for the comparison? Hmmmm, not sure it's the cat fans that are confused.

 

[HookedonGriz]

Do you took out central Washington from the griz schedule and Oregon from the cats for the comparison? Hmmmm.

You’re bad at reading. Try again. Go nice and slow this time, I know you can do it!

 

[mthoopsfan]

So you took out central Washington from the griz schedule and Oregon from the cats for the comparison? Hmmmm, not sure it's the cat fans that are confused.

Cats shouldn't be given credit for getting crushed by Oregon. You are confused.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Don’t let any of your Cats buddies try to claim they have a much stronger SOS than the Griz. Quite literally the ONLY reason their SOS is high at all is due to one game….Oregon. If you look at just the FCS match ups, the Griz actually have a better SOS:

Cats:

SDSU - 98
San Diego - 201
Mercyhurst - 236
E wash - 185
NAU - 150
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
UNC - 200
Total - 1440/8 =-180 avg

Griz:

UND - 87
Indy St - 186
Idaho - 139
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
Sacred Heart - 210
Sac St - 132
Weber St - 191
Total - 1315/8 =-164.3

There are a lot of Cats fans very confused on this. Image that

What's UND?

 

[mthoopsfan]

Some Cat fans say they have dominated the FCS schedule (except for the loss to SDSU and Mercyhurst). But they have pretty much dominated Univ of SD and the bottom of the Big Sky teams.

 

[Skookum-Jim]

Cats shouldn't be given credit for getting crushed by Oregon. You are confused.

Who is talking about credit? But the schedule is the schedule and cherry picking games in and out and then calling it a schedule comparison is a bit disengenuois.

 

[CrunchGriz]

What's UND?

North Dakota

 

[HookedonGriz]

What's UND?

Yep sorry fixed it. 87 sagarin. Dropped Griz avg 10 points.

 

[mthoopsfan]

Who is talking about credit? But the schedule is the schedule and cherry picking games in and out and then calling it a schedule comparison is a bit disengenuois.

Didn't he say FCS games? How is that cherry-picking? If the Cats/you want to include the blowout loss to Oregon for SOS, then you want "credit". That is a fact.

 

[CrunchGriz]

Who is talking about credit? But the schedule is the schedule and cherry picking games in and out and then calling it a schedule comparison is a bit disengenuois.

So is getting crushed by the best team on your schedule and then using that to say you're better because of strength of schedule. Potato, patato.

 

[GriznMN]

Don’t let any of your Cats buddies try to claim they have a much stronger SOS than the Griz. Quite literally the ONLY reason their SOS is high at all is due to one game….Oregon. If you look at just the FCS match ups, the Griz actually have a better SOS:

Cats:

SDSU - 98
San Diego - 201
Mercyhurst - 236
E wash - 185
NAU - 150
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
UNC - 200
Total - 1440/8 =-180 avg

Griz:

UND - 87
Indy St - 186
Idaho - 139
Idaho St - 180
Cal Poly - 190
Sacred Heart - 210
Sac St - 132
Weber St - 191
Total - 1315/8 =-164.3

There are a lot of Cats fans very confused on this. Image that

None of this shit matters on November 22.

 

[HookedonGriz]

None of this shit matters on November 22.

And in other news, water is wet. Thanks for such insight.

 

[BrownBear9501]

So you took out central Washington from the griz schedule and Oregon from the cats for the comparison? Hmmmm, not sure it's the cat fans that are confused.

CWU is better than multiple teams the Cats played who are division 1 only in name. Maybe you are confused.

 

[uofmman1122]

In the only ranking I can find that lists every college football program relative to every other one (all 766), it has Central Washington rated higher than 55 FCS teams, including:

Sacred Heart
Idaho State
Cal Poly
Weber State
Northern Colorado
Indiana State
Mercyhurst
Portland State

 

[BrownBear9501]

Central is now 8-1 on the year with a two TD win over the #6 team in the nation. Cant remember who their one loss is to?

 

[HookedonGriz]

CWU is better than multiple teams the Cats played who are division 1 only in name. Maybe you are confused.

It’s actually true. There is a rankings system that ranks every single college football team from all levels and CWU was above Mercyhurst and very close to San Diego

 

[GriznMN]

And in other news, water is wet. Thanks for such insight.

I texted Bobby about this and that was his response. Ha

 

[ilovethecats]

So is getting crushed by the best team on your schedule and then using that to say you're better because of strength of schedule. Potato, patato.

I haven’t paid much attention but if people are claiming Cats are better simply because of SOS then you’re right, that’s ridiculous. For some reason people like to focus on the schedule season after season after season. It’s silly.

But strength of schedule is still a real thing. If the Cats played 4 FBS teams and got killed by all of them, and and Griz played 4 D2 teams and killed all of them, it’d still be ok, and correct to say that the Cats had a more difficult schedule. Definitely wouldn’t make them a better team because of it; but it’d still be true.

So it is kinda funny to see a comment that if you take away the top 10 FBS team the Cats played, and you take away the D2 teams the Griz played, the Griz have a more difficult SOS!

I forget how entertaining these boards get as we near the big game.

 

[hm.grwn.grizfan]

In the only ranking I can find that lists every college football program relative to every other one (all 766), it has Central Washington rated higher than 55 FCS teams, including:

Sacred Heart
Idaho State
Cal Poly
Weber State
Northern Colorado
Indiana State
Mercyhurst
Portland State

That checks out