[CTcard]

Some schools will have cupcake schedules to the playoffs (cough, FSU, cough), but it should be expected that a playoff team earned that berth through quality wins.

Actually, FSU's schedule is tougher than I would have expected, and tougher than usual.

Oklahoma State (in Dallas)
Citadel
Clemson
@ NC State
Wake Forest
@ Syracuse
Notre Dame
@ Louisville
Virginia
@ Miami
Boston College
Florida

That's a non-conference slate of Oklahoma State, Citadel, Notre Dame, and Florida. Three out of four are presumably real games even though OSU looks to be down this year and who knows if Florida will be better than last year's disaster. I also don't know how they managed to get only four road games despite having real teams as OOC opponents.

So, there are only two teams in there that are currently ranked, but that could be as many as 7 real games.

[CTcard]

Some schools will have cupcake schedules to the playoffs (cough, FSU, cough), but it should be expected that a playoff team earned that berth through quality wins.

Actually, FSU's schedule is tougher than I would have expected, and tougher than usual.

Oklahoma State (in Dallas)
Citadel
Clemson
@ NC State
Wake Forest
@ Syracuse
Notre Dame
@ Louisville
Virginia
@ Miami
Boston College
Florida

That's a non-conference slate of Oklahoma State, Citadel, Notre Dame, and Florida. Three out of four are presumably real games even though OSU looks to be down this year and who knows if Florida will be better than last year's disaster. I also don't know how they managed to get only four road games despite having real teams as OOC opponents.

So, there are only two teams in there that are currently ranked, but that could be as many as 7 real games.