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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 2255957, member: 3850"] Schedules will always be awkward...like Iowa not playing Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, nor Penn State on the way to the championship game... Or VT not playing Louisville, FSU, or Clemson on their way to the championship game. This year's Ohio State basketball team...who found out that they were in a bad place for a bubble team....needed schedule help according to Eleven Warriors. [I]The Big Ten currently has eight RPI top-100 teams, which is tied for fewest among the five major conferences. The Big 12 is the only other Power 5 league in the country with eight, but remember there are only 10 teams in the Big 12 whereas the Big Ten has 14. Ten of the ACC’s 15 teams are in the RPI’s top-100; the SEC has nine; and the Pac-12 has 11 of its 12 teams in the top-100. The unbalanced schedule in the Big Ten meant Ohio State played nine of its 18 conference games against those teams outside the RPI top-100. That’s 50 percent. Indiana is the only other team in the conference with that type of unbalance. So yes, the Buckeyes only had two quality wins in the league, but they also had fewer opportunities than the rest of the teams in the top half of the Big Ten. [/I] I think that we will always have artifacts of scheduling...perfect schedules just aren't likely. [I] [/I] [/QUOTE]