The Alabama Crimson Tide didn’t have the best nonconference schedule in 2019, but that will be changing down the road.
The Tide have home-and-home series scheduled against teams like Texas, Wisconsin, Notre Dame and Oklahoma, so big games are coming.
This week, former Ohio State coach and current FOX analyst Urban Meyer joined “The Herd with Colin Cowherd” and weighed in on Alabama’s scheduling, as you can see around the 9-minute mark below:
“I think Alabama’s changing but that’s way down the road when they’re going to Wisconsin,” Meyer said. “I think they’re going home-and-home with Wisconsin. But you have to figure too that the SEC is getting two teams a year into the playoff. And Ohio State’s not.
“So does schedule strength really matter? That’s the question – does it matter? Should it matter more? Those are all debates. I remember Gene and I talking about it. You can say that schedule strength matters, but wait a minute, does it? If Ohio State doesn’t get in the Playoff or another school doesn’t get in the Playoff and they’re playing nine conference games and another big-time opponent and they don’t get in. And someone’s playing eight conference games and then maybe not the strongest nonconference but they do get two in – those are all conversations you have to have.”
Conveniently, Meyer doesn’t mention Ohio State’s massive road losses to Iowa and Purdue those years the Buckeyes didn’t get in — lopsided defeats that Alabama and Georgia didn’t have the year they both made the Playoff.
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