Tom Oates with a complaint about scheduling... huh? Alabama played a joke schedule last year and got in, and win it all. Oates is wrong...
Tom Oates: Inequity in scheduling hurts Big Ten football
First of all, it takes 2 to tango- and when powerhouse programs refuse to schedule a tough game unless it’s at home, or a 2 for 1, there is no incentive for the teams like UW to schedule monsters. None.
And second, it simply has no bearing on the committee’s judgment (as evidenced by last year allowing a 1 loss ‘Bama team who played nothing in the non conference (they scheduled Mercer for ahead of the Iron Bowl, for f’s sake??? It’s like having a bye week). I don’t want to hear a friggin word about Wisconsin’s scheduling...