Not if you’re overly worried about the impression of getting to a bowl vs not. Bowls are worse at distinguishing how good a team is than w/l. Every year a lot of lower G5 schools get passed over for a .500 P5 school because of bowl tie-ins and name recognition
I think there is more to the story than a team’s record. It shouldn’t be a controversial point.
Well Megadeth is playing at the Fairgrounds on Saturday!
I am interested in that information as well.
Well duh but you make it sound like records means nothing. Like we are fooling everyone in college football. Dont mind our record. We are national champs because there is more to wins and losses.. I guess every team is national champs. Lol.
You said "you are what our record shows," which implies that it's all that matters. I said I disagree. You must be talking to someone else.
You are what your records shows and saying that does not indicate that’s all that matters to me. If it was all that matters I wouldn’t be so invested in SU football after 11 losing seasons in 15 years. Lol. But I am sorry to inform you that sports do come down to wins and losses. That’s what people see initially. Now if you researched each team you will get a better understanding of how close they were to winning more or less games or how many injuries they had that hindered their ability to win. How many turnovers, takeaways, explosive plays the team had or which team won the LOS. Ultimately all those things contributes to wins and losses. You make bowl games and playoffs based on how many games you win. You increase seasons ticket sales for delivering a winning product. My bad for telling you this. I just thought you knew.
Yup, his record is also better when Tommy plays than when a backup starts
Already did my homework for the day. Your turn.
connelly is good at breaking down what has happened and making predictions for the rest of a year after data is in. his projections before a season mean nothing and it's a joke that he pretends it does for clicks. wait until late october and his numbers will tell you who's lucky and who is good
Bill Connelly's mega offseason previews: ACC Atlantic
Clemson has won 32 of 33 games against ACC Atlantic foes in the past six years. Can anyone take down Dabo Swinney's Tigers?www.espn.com
SU fans only watch SU games and then watch a zillion nfl games the next day
I don’t think anyone who watched that season forgot the Middle Tennessee loss.
The thing about that loss is that it is only one of two in his first 3 seasons against mediocre to bad teams. I think I might do a deep dive on Syracuse coaches who lost these type games historically.
Yeah, Doug Marrone was the only one able to avoid a W-T-F loss. It helps that he was around for just four years and they were coming out of such a bad era they were rarely favored.
*I think this is right* - but I’m going to put his time through that same matrix. Sometimes our recollections are clouded.
I did the homework a few years ago. I only looked at point spreads though, not SRS. I believe there were only two games lost during Marrone's tenure in which Syracuse was favored. Off the top of my head, I want to say Cincinnati 2011 and UConn 2010, but I could be mistaken.
I found another one. Syracuse was favored by 1.5 over Rutgers in 2011. None of these losses are W-T-Fs in my opinion.
SRS is going to be different as it looks at the whole season in retrospect, while the point spread was made based on Vegas opinion that week. Not bad or good - just different. Hope to get to it today. I also like including the “holy crap we won” games like the Teddy Bridgewater beat down.
