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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4618827, member: 1969"]
POST #4

You seem to be obsessed with the fact that the ACC went 8-6 vs the BIG in the challenge.  As I said you can't use the transitive property to evaluate everything.

Here's the problem - the ACC plays 144 other OOC games, and the BIG plays 138.   What happens in those games matters as well.   Quite a bit more than those 14 games.

As I mentioned above its great the ACC did well in the Challenge because it made the terrible OOC at least more digestable.
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Record vs P6 (including the BIG/ACC Challenge)[/B]
Big 10:  29-30 (49%)
ACC : 24-32 (43%)

On a whole the B10 is comfortably ahead if you consider all the

[B]Record vs P6 (excluding the Challenge)[/B]
Big 10 - 22-21 (51%)
ACC - 16-26 (38%)

This should make it pretty clear why you shouldn't be obsessed with a 14 game sample.   Because the 42 other games against power conferences were not good
(Note the BIG went 6-5 against the ACC in non challenge games
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Other Data in OOC Games outside of the Challenge[/B]
If you want the data including the challenge see post #3.
This is simply meant how foolish it is to rely on a sample of games that make up less than 10% of your overall OOC games. and only 25% of your total games against top conferences.

Other Games:   BIG 138, ACC 144
Q1 Wins : BIG 14, ACC 3
Q1+Q2 Wins: BIG 19, ACC 10
Bad Losses: BIG 4, ACC 18
Win% - BIG 79%, ACC 69%

The BIG is so far ahead in those other 138 games that its not even comparable between the two league this year.   Yes the ACC went 13-12 overall against the BIG, but it only provides a dent on the data above and in Post #3.   The leagues were not close.
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