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[QUOTE="007, post: 2014044, member: 393"]
Your points, as always, are well made and well taken. That one additional win, in all likelihood, will not be the OC game at LSU. Let's put the scheduling LSU debate aside for the moment. If we hold serve on the 5 you mentioned, that one additional win will most likely come down to beating Pitt at home or NC St on the road. I am not assuming anything here other than looking at probabilities in picking those teams. Most of us realize the season will not play out completely to form, it rarely ever does. However, I do believe that Babers will find a way to 6 next year. Given the fact that we are 40 below .500 over the past 12 seasons and have been unable to consistently beat "semi-decent" teams for a while now, that belief is based more on faith than probability. The margin for error is razor thin given the current state of the program.

To my way of reasoning, that is the fundamental issue here. We should be scheduling to pad the reality of that margin for error. Not in perpetuity. But long enough to change the national perception of being a perennial loser and get to bowl games, which in turn will attract better recruits.
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