The past month, we've taken a look at historical scheduling in the SEC. Today, we address a topic that it almost never considered.
With the advent of the College Football Playoffs, scheduling quality opponents (or, at least playing in a quality conference with a championship game) has become the gold standard for committee's "eyeball test" evaluation.
Eyeballs are certainly helpful, even though not quantifiable by any stretch. For instance, you can see how a solid West Virginia team played well against Alabama, and then beat Baylor, the latter who then beat TCU, and you can then arrive at some (probably meaningful) mental calculus that "Alabama is probably a better team than Baylor or TCU.