The curious case of the Coach Krystkowiak era

[sancho]

With a new emphasis on scheduling up, I feel like the top 125-150 teams will start to schedule each other more and avoid the 151-351 type teams. Could be good for Utah.

If that happens, it should benefit all P5 programs more or less evenly. Strength of schedule is not an absolute; it's measured as a ranking, so it's relative.

[UtahsMrSports]

If that happens, it should benefit all P5 programs more or less evenly. Strength of schedule is not an absolute; it's measured as a ranking, so it's relative.

I dont have time to look it up, but we have more upside from last year because Im betting that not many P5 teams had as many anchors dragging down their SOS as we did.

[sancho]

I dont have time to look it up, but we have more upside from last year because Im betting that not many P5 teams had as many anchors dragging down their SOS as we did.

That would be interesting to see. I figured most P5s were more or less like us. The Pac-12 has a disadvantage of not having a challenge game with another P5 conference, so maybe you are right.

[DrumNFeather]

I dont have time to look it up, but we have more upside from last year because Im betting that not many P5 teams had as many anchors dragging down their SOS as we did.

I've only looked at it for the Pac 12 teams, but if we say that a Q4 win is an anchor (now that's a home game vs. 161+ in the RPI - which is a very broad metric) then here is how it shakes out:

Utah: 6
Arizona: 5
ASU: 5
Cal: 7 (2-5)
Colorado: 5
Oregon: 8
Oregon St: 6
Stanford: 5 (4-1)
UCLA: 6
USC: 7
Wash: 7
WSU: 7 (6-1)

Every team in our league that got Cal and WSU at home added a Q4 win to the schedule, and a road game was only a Q3 win. That hurt the league quite a bit.