Let’s talk about schedules, and specifically, how they’ve made rankings functionally meaningless.
FUN FACT: Georgia has by far the worst SOS of any team in the AP Top 25: 81st. It’s actually the weakest in the entire SEC too! Their schedule is far closer to Troy (83rd) or James Madison (85) than it is Alabama (3) or their opponent this week, Missouri (16). How do you assess an 8-0 team with that record versus one that is 7-1 and has a Top 10 schedule?
And what to make then, this late in the season, of teams who have managed to play 75% of a schedule and still remain unknown?