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Why do you think Dobbins has 12 yards a carry?  

he's a freak athlete?

Let's not forget when schedules are made - 5-10 years in advance.  Anyone remember what PSU's situation was when the Pitt series was put under contract?  PSU had a chance to just barely be crawling out from under the rock right now, and this non-con schedule directly reflects that.  

I'm not really judging them for it, but at the end of the day OOC schedules have to be compared for what they are.  BTW, I think everyone is giving the SEC a pass.  They only play 8 conference games and often include a layup - Alabama plays Mercer and Georgia played Samford. 

To me, SoS is about reality not effort or expectations.  Next year Penn State has ApSt, Pitt, and Kent.  That sounds like a soft OOC but if Appalachian State wins the Sun Belt, Pitt wins the ACC, and Kent wins the MAC then I'll credit PSU with playing a pretty tough OOC.  To me it is about actuality not expectations

if Pitt wins the ACC, I would agree, but Appy St and Kent St are layups, even if they win their conference, that is an absolute layup for anyone wanting to get into the playoffs.

I understand the scheduling softer while you are down, it's just unfortunate you came out of it while you were really good.

If I were on the committee though, I'm giving more credence to someone that would schedule Alabama, Wake Forest, and Navy, even if they all finish below .500. I would say to myself "that AD and coach/program whatever did everything in their power to schedule tough." Now if that team were compared to another team that had highly ranked wins I'd say they lose out, that's luck of the draw. But if they are compared to someone that played Pitt, App St and Kent and those 3 programs were middling like they are this year, well, I'm voting for the team that scheduled Alabama but was unlucky they stunk the year they got them.

That's the beauty and curse of the committee I guess, we all value different things, perceived or not.

I also agree the SEC scheduling for the most part is a Joke, however, this year I can't complain with their title contenders Bama playing FSU and Georgia playing ND. They scheduled up.

The 8 conference games vs 9 is an issue, but your not going to find many SEC fans thinking 9 conference games is a big deal, especially this year when Wisconsin might play an entire 9 game conference slate against 0 ranked opponents. Michigan more than likely won't be ranked at the end of the year, if they lose to Wiscy anyways.

Even as the defense began to recognize the tactic, blowing up a few quick screens,

from your story, except it should say blowing up all 7 quick screen passes. and I don't know how a defense wouldn't recognize it, we do it every game.

I get how you say we need these to spread the ball out, but I don't understand why we have to sacrifice 5-10 plays per game. there has to be a better way to spread the field than by using a pass play that averages a net loss against good competition. a screen to a RB maybe?

The screens in those videos were not blown up at all.  Big gains. 
Again, it is an extension of the run game. You could just actually run the ball ...and a number of those would get blown up as well.  But there would be no additional benefit.
The comeback could never have happened without those plays having to be accounted for, and being in the defenses head.  

Well designed screen pass to the wide side of the field?

/sarcasm