The Case Against the SEC

This is quite straight-forward: after years of getting away with soft schedules and centrality preserving strategies (the November cupcake) the SEC will be on the outside looking in. Advocates for the conference will argue that they are required to be provided one of the four slots in the playoffs, this has no basis in reality.

Our network science assumptions:

A. Wins and losses are the primary form of information in college football

B. College football scheduling has tight communities with little overlap, there in any given season a…