Well that will not be the case going forward. We have already started with playing the P5 team the SEC forced us to play. The extra automatic win OOC is gone now.
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Another interesting little tidbit, Mullen strength of schedule average=24, Jackie(first 8 years) strength of schedule average=51. Jackie strength of schedule for his whole tenure=44.
A) BYU isnt P5- but at least we stepped up our game a little. We still lost though, fortunately it wasnt the beating we took in 2013. We have had by far the easiest OOC schedule in the West for a longtime now.
UPig played TCU and won
Auburn played Clemson and had the ball with a chance to win at the end of the game
Bama played USC
LSU played Wisconsin
OM played Fla State
A&M played UCLA
In 2017- we play BYU again who is supposed to be improved as well. But they are still not P5. Let's dont act like we havent been enjoying those 4 free wins OOC every year except 2009 and 2013
This man gets it. Someday I'd like to buy you a beer if ever down in Nola.
Every one of us wants the best for the university and all athletic programs. We are on a plateau right now with our football program. Overall we have as much or more talent than we've ever had. We have the best facilities we've ever had he far. We recruit well at most positions but there are a couple that, if recruited just slightly better, would yield top3 SECWest finishes more years than not and most likely 1-2 playoff births and a really good chance at a national championship. If we had just had a marginally better OLIne in 14&15 we would have won the west in 14 and could have repeated in 15.thisnis what we are talking about. Just marginally better OLIne recruiting and that 7 win average would be more around 9 win average.
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Mullen needs to recruit better on the OL and DL. That would solve alot of ills. Other West teams play major programs OOC every year and our best OOC is usually La Tech- so when people want to compare wins-losses the last whatever number years lets just be honest.
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Mullen has 4 swing games in 2017 to show everyone the program isnt slipping. Count me in with Bart Scott- "Cant wait"