Strength of schedule means more in 2025. Politicking at playoff time will be more intense.
The College Football Playoff Committee announced last week that it has “adjusted (SOS metric) to apply greater weight to games against strong opponents. An additional metric, record strength, has been added to the selection committee’s analysis to go beyond a team’s schedule strength to assess how a team performed against that schedule.”
SEC supporters were upset last year when Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss, Missouri and LSU were left out of the playoffs. After all, they'd run a gauntlet.
Jackson Arnold has over 100 yards passing and rushing tonight against Baylor.