Why does the national media keep ranking teams based on recruiting stars and portal hype without any real accounting for strength of schedule? Look at Texas A&M staying at 10 in that way-too-early poll. Their SEC slate is brutal, but the ranking just assumes the talent will translate. For a program like Austin Peay Governors, our entire season is judged on how we perform against a Vanderbilt or other FBS opponents, yet Austin Peay Governors's schedule's difficulty is never part of the conversation when people evaluate our potential. The Governors' win probability in any given year is directly tied to the opponents' SP+ ratings, which are often stacked against us from the start. How can you possibly compare the trajectory of a top 25 team to a rising FCS program without contextualizing who they actually have to play lmao? The obsession with raw talent ignores that playing in the UAC presents a completely different set of weekly challenges than the SEC, and that should matter in the broader evaluation. https...