[Husker] #3 Schedule Strength

[Bapi Gupta]

Greetings Husker List, I've been gone for awhile...

It might be worth noting how tough our schedule has been this year.  Only 
one team, Iowa State (3-8), who has just succeeded in coming back from a 
21-0 halftime deficit to beat Colorado (5-6), has a losing record.

My schedule ratings ( at http://www.bapi.net/football/college.opp.html )
have Nebraska's opponents as the 3rd toughest:

Gupta Power Ratings for College Football               November 10, 2007

      Team Name              Points   Team  W-L-T   Points   Opp    W-L-T

  11. Florida                267.33   6  3  0.667   230.91  51  23  0.689
  92. Duke                   146.07   1  8  0.111   229.11  49  25  0.662
  70. Nebraska               184.42   4  6  0.400   227.99  55  29  0.655
  44. Colorado               212.47   5  5  0.500   227.96  55  28  0.663
  77. Washington State       174.81   3  6  0.333   227.87  43  31  0.581

  65. Washington             189.15   3  6  0.333   227.75  49  25  0.662
  97. Notre Dame             140.59   1  8  0.111   226.06  50  27  0.649
  29. South Carolina         234.24   6  4  0.600   225.78  43  30  0.589
  35. Mississippi State      224.13   5  4  0.556   225.25  41  26  0.612
   1. Louisiana State        313.51   8  1  0.889   222.94  49  26  0.653

In my ratings, I have Ohio State's SOS rated 86th.  If we had the 
Buckeye's schedule, we'd like be in the 7-3 or 8-2 range.  For this 
reason, my ratings still have LSU, with 7 opponents in the top 35, ranked 
above Ohio State.  Ohio State has one top 35 opponent (Penn State).

Arkansas, by comparison, is 6-3 now with a very easy schedule, despite 
playing in the SEC (Troy, North Texas, Tenn-Chat, and Fla Int OOC). 
They'd like be 1-8 or 2-9 against Nebraska's opponents.

Colorado we'll be our second sub-.500 opponent and should we be them, 
we'll go to a lower tier bowl and my guess is that we'll compete favorably 
against another .500 team from a major conference or .700 team from 
another.

Nice game today and I'll be very surprised if Joe Ganz isn't this week B12 
offensive player of the week.  Then again I'm not sure how KU QB Todd 
Reisling's 6 TDs didn't get him the POW for the *5th week in a row* 
against the Husker defense (Chase Daniel got it).

Bapi