It’s so obvious, yet rarely ever questioned. Last year doesn’t matter anymore AT ALL. We have NO idea who anyone is yet - so it’s impossible to have strength of schedule or FPI yet … there’s literally NO data to go off. Nothing to measure, compare or judge yet. However, we create this arbitrary baseline to begin the year 🤷🏻♂️
SMU HC Rhett Lashlee at ACC Media Days:
"Whenever some of y’all figure out how we can have pre-season strength of schedules and power rankings before anybody has played a game, y’all let me know."
Sums it up pretty well.