Quote:There is absolutely no incentive to play a tough out of conference schedule if your ultimate goal is to win a championship.  I like it when teams do play interesting out of conference matchups but more often than not it ends up hurting you.  Only 4 weak OOC is a problem.  As long as you've got one tough one... as UF does with FSU, thats enough.

For a team like UF, they would be better off playing some tough competition.  With their schedule as it is now, they HAVE to go undefeated in the regular season to make it to the playoffs.  I'm considering the fact they will most likely lose in the SEC championship game (SEC W best division in power-5, SEC E worst division in power-5).  UF could run the table then lose to Alabama in the championship game and have NO shot at making the playoffs.  Just think about it, UF was a 1-loss team and SEC East champ, yet they were ranked behind 1-loss Alabama, Oklahoma, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Baylor, Ohio State, Oklahoma State AND 2-loss Stanford and Michigan.

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