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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 2143973, member: 3201"]
Yep.  Every modern rags to riches story in college football of once-pathetic teams turning around into legitimate programs was built on paper-soft OOC scheduling.  It's been proven to work again and again and again.  Let people mock your out of conference schedule while you're going to New Years games and winning Heismans.

The last team to do on the David and Goliath plan was FSU, and the world has changed dramatically in the 40 years since then.  And it was a different dynamic...by the time FSU was doing that scheduling they were pretty good with Florida talent already, and as an independent that was a "respect" tour, not a "get better by getting our brains bashed in" tour.  Nobody in a major conference needs to do that to make a name for themselves or introduce themselves on the scene.  Let alone Syracuse, with their brand name.

As you said, it means ZERO unless you're contending for a playoff spot.  There is no prize for "But we played LSU."
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