Toughest Schedules:

[goodknightfl]

the whole schedule thing looks goofy to me... I agree USF has a tough schedule... prob in the top 25... but no way is it in the top 10.  

[bulls96go]

6 wins will be an accomplishment!

[PSU_Nut]

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first of all it was based on 2004 results. It is skewed to the Big East and the ACC due to the major calculation is based on percentage of teams going to a bowl game and the winning percentage of the teams in the conference. By virtue of playing each other a conference recieves one loss and one win. Since the big ten played 88 conference games last year the the conference will automatically lose at least 44 games or 4 games per team. The New Big East teams only Played 30 games against each other so the conference was only gurenteed 15 losses or 1.9 loss per team. Also the big east had 6 members going to bowls. That will not happen this year but was able to happen because of 3 teams playing in different conferences.

Example :

Big Ten Best possible percentage if they won all occ games in 2004:

44-44 in conference games

33-0 in noconference games

total winning percentage possible: 77-44 .63

Big East :

Conference games against new big east teams:

Louisville: 2

Cinci: 3

USF: 3

Syracuse: 5

Uconn: 4

Pitt: 5

Rutgers: 4

WVU:4

30 Conference games

15-15 in conference games

58-0 in noconference games

total winning percentage possible: 73-15 .83

Infact if the big east repeated last year record of 53-35 it would have to go 32-7 in the non conference schedule wich is would be impossible to do.

[The_Reaper]

PsU  Beware of the BULL!!!