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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 3816379, member: 10442"] Speaking of Massey's ratings, I decided to check the opponents for two specific teams already played, and their defensive ratings per Massey: USC (10-1): CoC: 338 SD: 25 Gonz: 10 NCST: 18 ISU: 67 Temp: 164 UF: 73 UA: 74 UK: 24 VU: 227 ARK: 198 next: Georgia: 16 Still to play: (X2) LSU: 20 MSU: 53 AU: 125 CT: 2 MIZ: 90 UT: 28 TAM: 23 CT (8-0): UM-L: 169 . SetH: 201 .. Creit: 39 Xav: 199 .. Villa: 69 DeP: 260 .. Prov: 65 But: 116 . Next: Tennessee: 28 Still to play: (X2) GT: 46 (X2) St. J: 129 .. Marq: 58 SC: 4 For South Carolina, College of Charleston is a pretty bad outlier, but after that, the Gamecocks have already played four (4) games against opponents with top 25 rated defenses, per Massey. They have five (5) more games against four (4) opponents with top 25 rated defenses still on their schedule that they have yet to play. This does not include a 2nd game with Kentucky (24th rated defense) that they will play towards the end of the schedule. That's a total of ten (10) games against top 25 rated defenses. For Connecticut, they have already played zero (0) opponents with top 25 rated defenses, and look to only have one (1) opponent left on their schedule that will have a top 25 defense, unless Tennessee's own defense moves up the ratings, and if they do, that adds another top 25 defensive opponent to South Carolina's list as well. That's a total of one (1) game against top 25 rated defenses. On the other end of the spectrum, well, South Carolina owns the worst rated defensive opponent with College of Charleston. But in total they will play one (1) game against an opponent with a rated defense outside of the top 300, two (2) opponents outside the top 200 rated defenses, and a total of five (5) opponents outside of the top 100 rated defenses. Connecticut meanwhile plays zero (0) opponents outside of the top 300, four (4) opponents outside of the top 200, and a total of ten (10) opponents with defensive ratings outside the top 100. For SC, Arkansas could slip outside of the top 200, and Missouri outside of the top 100, and for CT Xavier could slip outside of the top 200 and Seton Hall inside the top 200, but right now looking at the schedules from the front AND back ends, the Gamecock's schedule has much higher rated defensive teams as opponents than CT's schedule does. Also, looking at NET and RPI ratings, South Carolina has already played seven (7) of its 11 games against Quadrant 1 NET opponents going 6-1, and eight (8) Quadrant 1 & 2 opponents going 7-1. Connecticut has played just two (2) of its 8 games against Quad 1 NET opponents, and just three (3) games against Quad 1 & 2 opponents. Likewise, for RPI South Carolina has played five (5) opponents with Quad 1 RPI and [B]nine (9) of its 11 games[/B] against Quad 1 & 2 RPI opponents. Connecticut meanwhile has played two (2) of 8 games against Quad 1 RPI opponents, with NO games against Quad 2 RPI opponents. I make these comparisons because comparisons seem to be being made between what South Carolina scores against its opponents, or allows to be scored BY its opponents, and what might it score against CT or allow CT to score. But if the season stats of scoring offenses and defenses are being used as basis for these comparisons, well then possibly the strength of schedules - and what each team's opponents bring to the table - may need to be compared as well. Also, it's interesting that CT's own NET and RPI rankings are eye-to-eye with SC's or even slightly better, when the ratings of each team's schedules don't seem to pair up eye-to-eye...... [/QUOTE]

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