Thank you. I had searched for "final strength of schedule ranking". What you linked was 2021 college football FEI ratings, which would explain why I didn't find it when I searched.
Per the FEI chart, the average team would have lost 6.32 games vs our schedule last year based on a very convoluted process involving OFEI, DFEI and a bunch of other stuff. Translates to a 5-7 record and based on their calculations and by their way of viewing it a 62nd-ranked SOS. Haven't spent much time on FEI so I am looking forward to learning more. Thanks for turning me on to it, seriously.
So maybe the experts got GTs schedule wrong last year, as again I am sure they get a number of teams wrong. Does that necessarily mean they will get it wrong this year?
Early returns say no as our opponents are 10-1 so far, with the one being a close loss in which our opponent dominated but had 5 TOs.
Will be interesting to watch this year and see how it all turns out. Look forward to conversing more.
Nobody really focuses on end of season rankings because it's uninteresting and doesn't sell. Team Rankings sells a similar product. My point is all of this pre-season garbage is nonsense. It's all there to generate interest in games and get people to watch games on tv for advertising revenue, it's clickbaiting, spending money gambling on dogs so they can profit, etc. It's massively entertaining which is why we're interested and spend hours debating it here, at our workplaces, out with our buddies, etc. At the end of the day, it's no different than work. People can trot out all the side stories you want to explain the weak results, but the results speak for themselves and expected top performers in the ACC barely beating App St, ECU & having lower tier teams losing to ODU and Rutgers in week one is not a good look. Reinforces what's known to everyone else, ACC football is a suckfest, it's killing the conference as everyone else leaves us in the dust and only ND and maybe Clemson are worth targeting for realignment. Then we get ESPN peices like this- "pay the upcharge next time":
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