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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5241697, member: 1969"]
[B]Final post for Week 2 Update[/B]
B12 doing its thing again like last year.    Not playing more cupcakes than others (42% instead of 41%) for Q4 bottom teams, but destroying them more than others.

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It should be noted that Q1, Q2 and Q3 are relatively small sample sizes so they could possibly swing around.   But just looking at current trans.

If we look at Q1, Q2, Q3 games the ACC is pretty much hanging with the B12 in the margin game.   But they are far behind in Q4 margin.      And the SEC is ahead of the B12 in all of those Q1, Q2, Q3 games -- except Q4 margin.   But the B12 is ahead in Q4 margins.  All the conferences have similar schedule makeup (Q4 % = ACC 64%, B12, 64%, SEC 58%)

Leads me to the same conclusion I found last year.   Its not that the B12 plays more cupcakes (generally).  Its that they dominate them more than other teams in those cupcake games.   Even if they don't do much better in higher status games.   You do have to wonder if its a tactical strategy employed by the league to ask its members to really push in those games.    Especially the more hapless opponents at the Q4 bottom,

That being said as we learned from Lemoyne its not always that easy to squash these teams.   So I would say a good part of it is just being better than the ACC... but I suspect part of it is tactical as well.
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