Should Texas A&M be ranked ahead of Indiana?
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Ross Dellenger, Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey discuss whether Texas A&M could jump Indiana in rankings while considering each team's strength of schedule. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
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Given what happened to Indiana, the scare they got from Penn State, is there any chance that we see Texas A&M hop Indiana?
I would be OK with it.
I think I closed the show this way on Sunday, because of the another road win in in the league.
I do think a somewhat arbitrary shuffling of the top when you don't have a loss to actually create momentum or movement, why not?
Why not say, hey, just by virtue of, of the existing resume plus November 8th, Texas A&M by virtue of another road win against a ranked team in their league, yeah, you're number one this week.
Why not?
I wouldn't have a problem with it either if A&M jumped, you know, Indiana, I mean, I have Indiana still at, as number one in my rankings, but let's look at, uh, something that sort of popped up this week.
Is the Indiana strength of schedule argument again, right?
We heard a lot about it last year.
And although I think Indiana still has the best or certainly the 2nd best probably win in, in football this year at Oregon, um, you know, Indiana's strength of schedule, I think is hovering around 50 and Texas A&M's is number 10.
On the resume tab of, of ESPN's College Football Power Index, which is something that the committee looks at.
Indiana's strength of schedule is 33rd, which is not terrible.
What is the schedule strength on the tab for A&M?
It is 15 in the ESPN, but their strength of record, which is how an average team would do against your schedule, how an average top 25 team would do against your schedule.
For Texas A&M, the strength of record is number 1.
And for Indiana, it's #2.
Wow.
I don't know if the committee is gonna get this semantic.
It, it is a, in hindsight, opportunistic conference schedule, but it's not like you can engineer that when they got Auburn, when they got state, when they got Florida.
I was on the daily this morning on Yahoo, and I was, I was talking about like, you want to be boring, you don't want to draw attention.
This is part of the Elko effect and the whole find your ELO.
A&M, if it's possible to be undefeated in the league and do it quietly, that's what they're doing.
