Lashlee Says Cignetti Missed with His Shot at SEC Scheduling

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Rhett Lashlee fires shot at Curt Cignetti after Indiana coach's SEC scheduling comment - On3

12 hours ago12 hr

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Look at the SEC OOC slates. Cig was spot on. Indiana plays 3 cupcakes OOC, but the majority of SEC teams do the same. Unless you count Washington State as a P4 team, Ole Miss plays four non-conference games, all at home. 3 SEC teams play 10 P4 games in 2025. 13 B1G teams play 10.

No doubt Georgia, Oklahoma, and Florida have brutal in-conference schedules. Not so with Tennessee, Ole Miss, and M1zzou. The tough schedules do not translate up and down the entire SEC conference.

The point Cignetti tried, and IMO did make to anyone who passed math in elementary school, is that with nine conference games, half of the conference cannot schedule its way out of an additional loss.

Petitti's point, with a committee that conducts its business in the dark and seemingly focuses on losses rather than the quality of teams you lost to, is one reason we need AQs. Greg Sankey wants to remain at eight conference games, but in the process of promoting the 5-11 format and staying at eight, he also noted the SEC wants to see significant changes to the selection process.

I guess Rhett Lashlee didn't like Pawalll taking him behind the woodshed, even though he was correct: Since 1964, six SEC programs have won football championships. In this period, Bama won fifteen.

Facts are stubborn things. John Adams

1 hour ago1 hr

Pettiti needs to be loud and clear like Sankey is in getting his point across . Nine conference games across the board. An in season cross conference slate every year, that way the depth of the conferences can show out.

No the ACC and Big 12 aren't on the same level. But the B1G wasn't near that level before they became ruthless and closed the gap. The SEC never missed the 4 team playoff, sending two teams multiple times. The B1G champion missed out a couple times, heck an undefeated ACC champion missed out in favor of a one loss SEC team. You gotta earn your respect in this game, the Big 12 has one playoff win in their entire history. The ACC had one program win the whole thing twice, but no other member even came close to making it in( outside of FSU getting blown out in '14 and being passed over in '23).