LSU's greater S.O.S. or is it?

LSU has gotten a lot of credit for its schedule this season. They deserve it for having played out of conference games against West Virginia and Oregon. Add to that having to play Alabama and Arkansas in their division and again they deserve credit for who they have played. Georgia gets discredited for its schedule due to the east being down. I looked at four things to compare the two teams schedules: rank of total offense of teams they played, total defense, record and SEC record of teams. What I came up with is that LSU played against teams with 5 more wins and 6 fewer losses (West Virginia still has a game left to play) than Georgia's opponents. The average offensive rank of teams LSU played was 77.67 and for Georgia it was 84.33. The average defensive rank of teams that LSU played was 51.58 and for Georgia it was 51.83. Georgia is 3 spots behind LSU on defense but 27 spots ahead of LSU on offense.

I again adjusted their ranks by adding their offensive rank to the average rank of defense they played against and divided by two. Then added their defensive rank to the rank of the average offense they played against and divided by two. That gave an adjusted rank to account for the level of offense/defense they played against. I also averaged their adjusted offensive and defensive rank to give somewhat of an overall objective rank of strength of schedule. Georgia actually did better in this category, 44 to 48,  by a slight margin due to its higher total offense ranking. Here is the chart I used. All ranks were pulled from cfbstats.com . *Since 1AA stats are not included in rankings I used a rank of 120, or last, for purposes. Since both teams played a 1AA school these basically negate each other.

UGA schedule	offense	defense		Record	SEC record
Boise State	11	21		11-1
USCe	75	4		10-2	6-2
CC*	120	120		7-4
Ole Miss	115	88		2-10	0-8
Miss. State	87	42		6-6	2-6
UT	118	28		5-7	1-7
Vandy	96	19		6-6	2-6
UF	101	10		6-6	3-5
NMSU	48	109		4-8
Auburn	104	78		7-5	4-4
Kentucky	118	59		5-7	2-6
Georgia Tech	19	44		8-4
average rank	84.33	51.83	Opp. Total	77-66	20-44
	UGA D rank	UGA O rank
	5	35	adjusted
total	89.33	86.83	average
adjusted rank	44.67	43.42	44.04
LSU Schedule	offense	defense
Oregon	6	64		10-2
North Western State*	120	120		5-6
Miss. State	87	42		6-6	2-6
West Virginia	16	25		8-3
Kentucky	118	59		5-7	2-6
UF	101	10		6-6	3-5
UT	118	28		5-7	1-7
AU	104	78		7-5	4-4
Alabama	31	1		11-1	7-1
Western Kentucky	88	53		7-5
Ole Miss	115	88		2-10	0-8
Arkansas	28	51		10-2	6-2
average rank	77.67	51.58	Opp. Total	82-60	25-39
	LSU D rank	LSU O Rank
	2	62	adjusted
total	79.67	113.58	average
adjusted rank	39.83	56.79	48.31