Houston played before a record crowd in its own 42,000 seat on campus new stadium. The crowd noise disrupted Louisville offense.
That's right - a right-sized on campus stadium.
Houston - Louisville game.
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That's right - a right-sized on campus stadium.
It may have played a factor but Louisville just looked flat out unprepared. It looked like they expected a cakewalk and couldn't respond when Houston smashed them in the mouth.
And I'm all for on campus stadiums but I think theirs is pretty ugly. It has a temporary look to it.
No, they don't. I know exactly what you did. You looked the "Playoff Picture" section on ESPN's website. That is NOT a statistic compiled by the CFP. That's just something ESPN makes up on their own. It has absolutely nothing to do with the CFP.
Agree. I've seen it in person and it looks like it was built on the cheap. Baylor, on the other hand, got it right. The renovated stadium at TCU is very nice too.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but the Committee absolutely uses some form of schedule strength. This is not arguable.
Yeah, Houston's reminded me of UConn's ugly stadium. UCF's was pretty ugly too but I think they have renovated it recently to lessen the cheap feel.
If we ever do build an on campus stadium, I sure hope they follow the PNC park model and go simple and retro.
That's not what you said. Your original post was:
Well, the committee doesn't calculate strength of record. They only use strength of schedule, not strength of record. Those two are not the same thing. You went to the ESPN's website, and quoted Penn St's strength of record as being 10th. However, Penn St's strength of schedule was 38th. 10th vs. 38th is a big difference. You just picked SOR instead of SOS because it was a better number.
Now, you are trying to say that strength of record and strength of schedule are basically the same thing, when they clearly aren't. If they were the same, then you wouldn't see an 18 place difference between the two rankings for Penn St. As I said, you can't use SOR in this argument, because SOR isn't compiled by the committee, and the numbers clearly show a discrepancy between SOR and SOS. You can only use the one applicable to the committee, which is SOS (which just happens to be the lower ranking).
Now that said, even this SOS on the ESPN website isn't accurate. The committee calculates SOS in an entirely different way. Here's how they do it. They add up the W/L record of all your opponents. Then, they add up the W/L record of all the teams your opponents played. Then they add those two figures together and get an overall W/L percentage, and that's your strength of schedule. Completely different than how ESPN calculates it.
UH is a fine team right now. But they won't even be playing in their conf championship game representing their division. Navy will. Huge credit to their fans for showing up in force for their game vs Louisville.
The new UH stadium is likely right-sized for a non P5 league like Houston is in. It will be very interesting to see if it's right-sized and if it matters if it's on campus or not when Herman leaves for another job. And that may happen pretty soon. The Coogs next hire will be a critical one. Especially since the Big XII spurned them.
