Phil Steele ranks Michigan #7 in early poll

I think Magnus makes a great point about our SOS being hurt by out big non-confernce opp. 

- Hawaii

-UCF

-Colorado 

These teams don't help us at all. 

Magnus I'd like your take on this but this goes to another issue as well. 

The Big Ten has the 2nd most players drafter in 2016 with 47, the SEC lead the way with 51. The next highest was the Pac-12 with 32! I belive the SOS in the Big Ten is hurt because of a lack of respect of the conference. Some of pointed to the road games at Iowa, MSU and OSU. The fact is until those team prove it on the field they aren't given credit for being good talented teams. 

Going the other way the SEC is given the benefit of the doubt that they will replace all those draft pics. Thus those teams are ranked higher and thus have higher in-conference SOS. 

Just something I am thinking about as I am here covering the SEC. 

Seriously - why?

It's as meaningless as Phil Steele predicting what the  weather will be next November 12th and people getting all worked up over it.  

"PHIL STEELE SAYS MICHIGAN WILL HAVE UNSEASONABLY MILD NOVEMBER NEXT YEAR"

What?  How dare he predict that - who in the hell does he think he is?  Seriously - in the pantheon of meaningless prediction this one ranks right up there with Lunardi's bracketogy released before the season starts.

those are PREDICTED SOS based upom this years records and are MEANINGLESS..Michigan has annually for decades played a better non con schedule that most of Div 1 schools and when its all said and done our overall SOS will be top 20 more than likely...Im already hearing SEC fans and Paul Finnebaum mocking our SOS as if the SEC for decades didnt schedule Marshmellow U...for years they have scheduled creampuffs out of league then they have to win 4 conference game to qualify for a bowl and because they all do it they go around and say Look at us we have 11 teams in bowls (most in home or nearby states) so therefore we are the best league...its all BS and self promotion..