for those interested:

10. Missouri
9. Michigan
8. Kansas State
7. Rutgers
6. Maryland
5. Tennessee
4. Penn State
3. Kansas
2. Arizona
1. Florida

Occam's Chainsaw: Michigan and Penn State, but not OSU? I think we know the author's alma mater.

Hey, Ohio State plays one major OOC opponent every year(except 2007, but that game was planned when Washington was still good). Can Penn State or Michigan say the same thing?

/Of course, our other three OOC games include random MAC schools and whatever crap mid-major we can get to play in the Horseshoe
//wait, does ND count as a major OOC opponent?
///vote for me if you like cookies.

Occam's Chainsaw:

Hey now, Michigan played... App State. And lost.



/ don't forget ... Toledo. An at-home loss

Texas usually goes for strength of schedule for rankings, then gets farked by the polls and computer anyway because Brown won't run up the score against the pussy in-conference teams like the gentleman he is.

i'm so disappointed in PSU. they used to have one of the toughest schedules in football. they'd usually sked notre dame, usc, nebraska, alabama and the like pre-bcs.

i'm thinking joe has less influence over the schedule, and it's more the AD doing it so get a better bcs advantage. frickin' bcs.

thomps: iirc, we (nebraska) played you post-bcs, like 2001 or 2002?

home and home in 2002 and 2003. split the wins. i remember that. the newspaper had a story about how nice your fans are when they visit.

Wait a second. Florida still plays Florida State out of conference and we're no cupca..... Oh, right. Nevermind.

/Remember the 90's!!
//How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains?

oblig

Funny list considering Florida and Michigan both play annual games against OOC teams that are BCS members. I swear sometimes, the haters wouldn't be satisfied even if Florida played FSU, UM, USC and OU every year. They are the only program where people constantly insist they should have to play the absolute toughest schedule year in and year out. I have never been able to figure out why people think this should be required of Florida.

Everyone bust out the galoshes and raincoats for the inevitable storm of IAmRight whargarbl.

Abstruse: Texas usually goes for strength of schedule for rankings, then gets farked by the polls and computer anyway because Brown won't run up the score against the pussy in-conference teams like the gentleman he is.

Not sure if serious. He was quoted before the first of the series against OSU that he would not have scheduled them if was his decision because destroying a patsy has a better aggregate result.

No Georgia? I call shenanigans!

Tony Van Morrison: Funny list considering Florida and Michigan both play annual games against OOC teams that are BCS members. I swear sometimes, the haters wouldn't be satisfied even if Florida played FSU, UM, USC and OU every year. They are the only program where people constantly insist they should have to play the absolute toughest schedule year in and year out. I have never been able to figure out why people think this should be required of Florida.

Haters would be satisfied if Florida played a regular season OOC game out of the state of Florida against a top flight BCS opponent. Not 3-4 home games against FCS teams(or what pass as FCS teams in FBS). How many decades has it been since they've done that?

As a Maryland fan I'm just glad somebody thought about football and Terps at the same time.

The only reason Florida plays Florida State each year is because the Florida legislature enacted a law to make those two schools play each other. If not Florida woulda dropped Florida State from their schedule long ago.

So when Florida fans say but but but FSU ... you only play them because there is a law that says you have to. Miami could not be included in that law because they are a private university. Thus why they are no longer included on the schedule.

Say what you want. FSU has always played both of them and never looked to remove either from their schedule.

List needs more SEC on it.


/glaring at Alabama

Occam's Chainsaw: Michigan and Penn State, but not OSU? I think we know the author's alma mater.

University of Missouri?

http://bleacherreport.com/users/63125-ryan-faller

3 Big 12 North teams but no Big 12 South teams? Commenter supports this list!

/Go Pokes
//We suck

Tony Van Morrison: Funny list considering Florida and Michigan both play annual games against OOC teams that are BCS members. I swear sometimes, the haters wouldn't be satisfied even if Florida played FSU, UM, USC and OU every year. They are the only program where people constantly insist they should have to play the absolute toughest schedule year in and year out. I have never been able to figure out why people think this should be required of Florida.

FTA: During last season alone, Florida played Troy, Florida International, and Charleston Southern, which arrived at The Swamp as a 62-point underdog. The Gators outscored the three 180-12

As a student at the University of Central Florida, I was at The Swamp when they beat us something like 48-0 a couple years ago. This isn't a new thing. Florida schedules cake OOC opponents and justifies it by saying "Well, we are in the SEC! Our conference games are HARD!"

Surprised LSU didn't make the list. I guess they didn't manage to schedule 8 home games and no away games more than 300 miles away.

There's no way Kansas should be higher than K-State. Snyder scheduled cupcakes for years and years. KU has only done it for the past few, mostly because our football team sucked so badly. Plus we had Mangino and everyone knows how he likes the cupcakes, both literal and figurative.

Abstruse
Texas usually goes for strength of schedule for rankings, then gets farked by the polls and computer anyway because Brown won't run up the score against the pussy in-conference teams like the gentleman he is.

/So excactly how does Lousiana Monroe and UTEP factor into this strength of schedule thing?

Ten years ago who would ever had guessed that K State and Rutgers would be criticized for scheduling cupcakes?
I'm thinking five years from now Northwestern and Temple will be on the list.

Pavia_Resistance: albo: i'm so disappointed in PSU. they used to have one of the toughest schedules in football. they'd usually sked notre dame, usc, nebraska, alabama and the like pre-bcs.

i'm thinking joe has less influence over the schedule, and it's more the AD doing it so get a better bcs advantage. frickin' bcs.

I'm a Penn State alum and I too have been disappointed with their scheduling. It has more to do money than anything else though.

In the early ninties we stopped playing Syracuse after twenty years (they were pretty good at the time). The reason: Syracuse wouldn't agree to Penn State having more home games in the series. A similar thing happened with Pitt.

More home games = lots of $ especially when your stadium holds over 100K. The football program subsidizes all the other sports programs. Patsies will agree to play Penn State at home.

As a Pitt alum, it stinks that there's no Pitt-Penn State game. And for the reason you stated - PSU wanted a majority of home games. I understand, though - football is more important to PSU than it is to Pitt and their stadium holds way more people.

/*much* respect to JoePa

That_Dude: 6. Maryland

They are a cupcake.

006andahalf: Surprised LSU didn't make the list. I guess they didn't manage to schedule 8 home games and no away games more than 300 miles away.

LSU travelled to Washington to play the Huskies first game of the season last year.

For 2010 the Tigers are also playing North Carolina (at the Georgia Dome) and West Virginia at home. In 2011 they go to West Virginia.

006andahalf: Surprised LSU didn't make the list. I guess they didn't manage to schedule 8 home games and no away games more than 300 miles away.

They didn't make the list this year because they scheduled a season-opening neutral-site game in Atlanta against UNC and have a home game against West Virginia as well.


If they still had their annual home-and-home series with Tulane instead of playing against UNC, they might have made the list.

veedeevadeevoodee: Occam's Chainsaw:

Hey now, Michigan played... App State. And lost.



/ don't forget ... Toledo. An at-home loss

That picture never gets old.

Tony Van Morrison: Funny list considering Florida and Michigan both play annual games against OOC teams that are BCS members. I swear sometimes, the haters wouldn't be satisfied even if Florida played FSU, UM, USC and OU every year. They are the only program where people constantly insist they should have to play the absolute toughest schedule year in and year out. I have never been able to figure out why people think this should be required of Florida.

When you play teams that let you be a 62 point favorite you have no right to fain outrage at being on a list like this, outside of conference games I dont think UF has been close to losing a game. Its not because they are so great, its because they play shiat OOC teams.

davion2308: No Georgia? I call shenanigans!

Yeah check out their OOC schedule, its probably the toughest in the SEC, not like thats saying much but in conference it stands out.

I think that if any team schedules a team where they are a 40+point favorite then they are automatically dropped 5 spots in every poll.

How can ND not be on the list most of their schedule is cupcakes, they even refuse to join a conference to avoid a schedule with fewer cupcakes.

I do understand schools wanting to pad their win totals, college basketball is far worse than football with maybe two of ten non conference game featuring quality opponents. It amazes me that more coaches don't see how this hurts them in the long run as playing weak opponents does nothing to help a team improve. Playing a strong non conference schedule may hurt your win-lose record but it will make for a much stronger team for your conference run.

Hey ! Maryland gets beat by at least one cupcake team every year.

// Class of '79 . GO TERPS !

PowerSlacker: List needs more SEC on it.


/glaring at Alabama

Alabama who has a home and home scheduled with Penn St? The same team that opened up against top 5 opponents and won convincingly both times? That Alabama?

Any list like this is a joke without Texas.

Texas would play high school teams if they could get away with it

Kornchex: Occam's Chainsaw: Michigan and Penn State, but not OSU? I think we know the author's alma mater.

Can not believe Wisconsin didn't make that list. They're way worse than OSU.

Everyone in the Big10(11) is WAY worse than OSU. So is most of the country for that matter. Not that facts have ever been a factor in regards to blind OSU hatred:

2002 #10 Washington State - Pac 10
2003 #17 Washington - Pac 10
2003 #24 North Carolina State - ACC
2004 NR North Carolina State - ACC
2005 #2 Texas - Big 12
2006 #2 Texas - Big 12
2007 NR Washington - Pac 10
2008 #1 USC - Pac 10
2009 #3 USC - Pac 10

2010 Miami(FL) - ACC
2011 Miami(FL) - ACC
2012 Cincinnati - Big East
2012 California Pac 10
2013 California Pac 10
2014 Virginia Tech - ACC
2015 Virginia Tech - ACC
Tennessee coming after this

Hardest scheduling in history? No. But anyone who talks smack about cupcakes can direct it somewhere other than OSU