STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE? [PATS BRIEFCASE] I'VE GOT YOUR STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE RIGHT HERE, PAL
With the advent of the College Football Playoff era, strength of non-conference schedule has become a bigger-than-ever talking point as conferences and schools attempt to burnish their resumes. This chatter only grew stronger when, in the inaugural season of the playoff, one-loss Big XII co-champions TCU and Baylor were left out of the final ranking due to non-conference slates that ranked as thin and "quit trying to tell us about Buffalo, Art" thin, respectively.
Conference commissioners recognize the problem, and are beginning to crack down on cupcake scheduling.