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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4763846, member: 9844"] I have no doubt South Carolina's SOS would rank very high either way, but doesn't Massey just use last year's rankings after the season ends to determine this year's strength of schedule initially? It may not matter much, but I don't think this initial SOS has anything to do with how good teams are expected to be this year, and until we have actual results to crank into their formula it is based on last year's status. For example if a team like Stanford was on someone's schedule it would be based on last year's team whereas this year they are expected to fall off quite a bit, so Stanford might be overrated initially as an opponent. In contrast a team that is expected to be better than last year like say UCLA may be underrated as an opponent until this year's results replace last year's in the calculations. [/QUOTE]