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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 4996952, member: 2133"]
Yup, but it is getting absolutely crushed by 5 teams is what's causing it, not the algorithm.

Since 2010-11, Syracuse has had 38 games where they lost by 16+ points. They've had 7 of them this season (18%) including the worst overall (@ UNC) and another in the top 5 (@ Wake).

By Season (Ending Year):
2011 - 1
2012 - 0
2013 - 2
2014 - 1
2015 - 1
2016 - 1
2017 - 5
2018 - 3
2019 - 3
2020 - 2
2021 - 4
2022 - 3
2023 - 5
2024 - 7

People can complain that getting blown out shouldn't matter, but when its looked at holistically, it's fairly consistent with our overall results and team strength from the last decade plus. Interesting that the next two seasons were the 2017 team that was a bubble team and last season which (combined with the overall trend) was enough to get the head coach [S]fired [/S]retired. 2023-24 has been a Jekyll & Hyde team that may have finally found its footing after catching some heavy body blows and KOs early on. In January over the span of 4 weeks they took 4 losses by an average of 25 points, including a pretty bad FSU team that's barely .500 - so let's not pretend that this team has been humming along all season.

I can't sort by conference at BBRef, but for comparison sake in the same time frame: Clemson has had 4, FSU has had 6, Miami has had 10, Duke has had 13 (Miami and UNC responsible for 6 of them), UNC has had 22, GTech has had 24, UVA has had 26 (which is surprising to me considering the rockfights Bennett likes), Louisville also has 38 (and 8 this season).
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