SOS won't be accurate until halfway through the season. There's too much opinion in it this early in the season. Keep in mind also that playing at home drops your sos. If those three teams win their share of games, their power rating will rise, and our sos will rise as a result. If those teams are terrible, it will hurt us. I think the idea was to get the best teams we could, that won't require a return game. None of these games will give us a good win that will help us if we're on the bubble, but if they are the mid level teams we think they are, they won't be an anchor for our power ranking. That said, we pretty much have to win all of these games if we actually think we can be in the running for an at large bid. I'd say anything less than 11-1, and it we'd have to crush it in league play to even be considered.