(01-19-2020 12:49 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-19-2020 12:33 AM)IWokeUpLikeThis Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 12:50 PM)slhNavy91 Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 12:08 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(01-14-2020 11:28 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Yeah no way Cincinnati or Memphis finishes with 10 wins if they played Pitt's schedule in the ACC: Virginia, Duke, Syracuse, Miami FL, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Virginia Tech and BC...


well... then again maybe they would..

Well since the ACC was a borderline G5 conference this year, you are probably right. So I should have limited my claim to the 4 actual "P" conferences this year. Then again I did use the B1G and SEC as my examples.

Using Massey's matchup widget, I put in Florida's SEC schedule home and away for Navy. 5-3.
Navy's Army, Air Force, ND schedule isn't changing regardless of conference home, so Massey has 8-4 for Navy in the SEC East.

That’s the best evidence posted in the thread. From my eye, Navy was better than a trio of 8-5 teams in Indiana, Kentucky & Tennessee (Massey has Navy 15+ spots above all 3) so that’s an easy conclusion for me to agree with.

I've listened to enough of this hooey now. The service academies quit playing a lot of P5's for a reason. Size differential. Their lines were getting too banged up and too many injuries were amassing. None of these computers take size differential or depth into consideration for their predictions.

Yes, that's the obvious point that some are trying to argue with here. Pretty amazing. They point to Navy vs P5 games here and there - a single game on the schedule or a bowl game - and ignore the likely cumulative effects of getting beaten up by bigger and stronger and more talented players week in and week out.

Essentially, they are arguing that there isn't a significant talent and physicality gap between the SEC and the AAC, which is pretty astonishing.