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I just looked at arkies schedule and this is what the next 4 weeks look like:

No 9 Alabama
at No 7 Texas
No 4 Florida
at 10 Auburn

That has to be one of the roughest months I've seen on a teams schedule in a long time.

It got me thinking...I know there is a lot of time left, but assuming the rankings hold true, was there ever a team to face more top 10 opponents in consecutive weeks?
 
I hope they lose every game by ******* 50....
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According to Stats LLC, Auburn was the only team to play four consecutive top 10 opponents, and the Tigers did it over a 9 1/2 -month span. Auburn finished the 2002 season against No. 7 Georgia, No. 9 Alabama and No. 10 Penn State, then opened the following season against No. 8 Southern California.
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So, to answer your question, Arkansas is only the second team to ever do it and the first to do it in one season.

#7 LSU still awaits the Hogs too.

It is because of this 4 game stretch, starting more true freshman than everyone not named Florida St., plus a trip to South Carolina and Miss. St., plus match ups with Gus Malzahn and Tulsa and the much anticipated match with Houston Nutt that I was shocked that Arkansas actually agreed to reschedule with Texas. I figured "logistics" may have gotten in the way.
 
They'll only be the first team to do it IF those teams remain in the top 10 until playing Arkansas. Bama, Texas and Florida probably will, but Auburn's a little more doubtful.
 
If we had a stretch like that, I think Mack Brown would call a special press conference just to make sure the fans and media knew how hard we had it.
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And the kind of schedule no one in the Pac 10 or Big 10 ever has to face.

In the Big 12 this year, all teams will go up against the best set of quarterbacks and passing attacks of any conference in the nation.

Top conferences... SEC and Big 12. Bar none. Period. End of story.
 
SU...well maybe since you're on a Texas site you should check out our schedule before you make such a statement

#2 OU
#5 Mizzu
#10 T. Tech
#19 Kansas

not far off
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pretty good tough conference sked for the Horns this year...

How about UCLA?

#1 USC
#11 BYU
#12 Oregon
#24 ASU

Or Washington

#1 USC
#2 Oklahoma
#11 BYU
#12 Oregon
#24 ASU

How about USC?

#5 Ohio St (before they killed them)
#12 Oregon
#24 ASU

Not that bad.

Oregon St

#1 USC
#12 Oregon
#15 Penn St
#20 Utah
#24 ASU

Pac-10 teams have tough schedules too.
 
How did this thread go from discussing a possible 4 game stretch against top ten teams to how hard it must be to face a conference slate that includes supposed highlight teams that lost at home to UNLV or that lost to Maryland (who had lost to Middle Tennessee State, and beat Delaware by only 7)?
 
Arky could jump up and give Bama a good game. The Tide is getting a lot of good will for beating a 'top 10' team in week 1. Clemson isn't close to what people had them at to begin the season.

Since then Bama has struggled offensively, imo. Plus the games in Fayettenam...should be interesting.
 
It has ZERO impact on this Saturday's game but since Arkansas joined the SEC, Bama and Arkansas are 8-8, with Bama only winning in Fayetteville twice.

With that said, I anticipate a Bama victory but a Bama loss would be par for the course.
 
This won't be popular with Texas fans, but a look back at OU's run in 2000 is very similar and pretty amazing in perspective.

Unranked in the top 20 pre-season, OU had a stretch against (going from some memory here) Teaxs who I believe was around #8, then K state around #5, then Nebraska who was #1. Then they played FSU (#1) in bowl. Played 5 top 10 ranked teams in the season including 2 #1's.
 
It's a tough schedule no doubt. Stuff happens.

But they were going to have to play the same 4 teams in a row anyway, the only differences are the order, and that the pigs don't get an off-week in between a couple of tough two-game stretches.

And I, too, would not be shocked to see Arkansas beat Alabama this week. That would be good for us.
 
Strange thread... I make a post that is challenged, to a degree, by "Soviet Union." Meanwhile, everyone else in my house but me was born in Russia, two of them during the Soviet period.

How does that saying go..."nowhere to run, nowhere to hide."
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The point of my post is that within conference play, getting through the Big 12 and SEC gauntlets are more formidable than surviving the Pac 10 and Big 10 to gain a championship. Never was that more true than this year. I don't see anyone challenging USC in the Pac 10, while there are at least three big horses in each of the Big 12 (Texas, Missouri, OU) and the SEC (LSU, Florida, Georgia). And in each of those two conferences there at several other teams that can ruin your Saturday.

Albeit, this early in the season, the ranking attached to a team -- as a means of saying how tough your schedule is -- can't be relied upon. From now to the end of the season, it's a factor of quantum mechanics involved: the outcome of every game affects the rankings, which retroactively should affect the glory of a win or the tragedy of a loss. USC did not just beat a #5 team. After the win, it altered Ohio State's ranking. That goes on every Saturday for the next 6-7 weeks before any meaningful ranking can be factored in, when assessing "who" you have played.

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