Well, we're ranked again
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LOL at Texas moving into the polls after a loss, albeit to Alabama. Has that ever happened before?
Notre Dame out completely, believe I read first time unranked in 80 weeks.
Yep the Glove is looking down and smiling!
Yes, 1986 to (of course) the Domers, Lou Holtz first season. Were unranked and in their first game lost a close one to Michigan. Went to #25.
How precisely can anyone rank aTm after to losing to Unranked App State??? When you're most compelling reason for ranking a team that losses to an unranked team @home is because they were highly ranked last week... and you've dropped them 20 places..... it's a bit of a joke. Having them absurdly mis-ranked last week is not a rational for absurdly ranking them this week.
I'm OK with Texas moving up after a 1 pt loss to Alabama. I don't understand Pitt, A&M, & Oregon bring ranked right behind us.
I don't understand how 0-2 ND still gets votes.
Most people that watched the game know that the officials literally gave the game to Bama with a 10 point swing in the second half due to some of the most embarrassing calls made this decade.
And Kentucky moved up from 20 to 9 for beating an overrated team with a horrible QB.
Our strength of schedule is great. We win it all takes care of itself. Purdue will be eventually seen as a very good win. Win this week and advance. Michigan is very very good. Minnesota is good. Osu is osu. Md isn’t terrible. Just win baby
That one is truly laughable (as was Tenn huge move in both polls) - so UF is moved from Unranked to #12 on the strength of beating an a vastly over-rated #6 Utah.... and Utah is dropped 7 to #13. Now Tenn is moved up 9 places and Unranked to #15 and #16 in the polls on the strength of beating the #17/#14 team. Previously Unranked UF is dropped 6 places for demonstrating that they never should have been ranked that high in the first place... and Utah is dropped a spot for beating Southern Utah University (whoever they are) 65-0... or how about aTm being ranked after losing to App State? Such that you have 7 (1-1) teams in the top 25 with Utah at 14 in front of 5 no-loss teams despite losing to a team that also has a loss???
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A horrible team that began the season unranked and was moved up to #12 from unranked after beating another absurdly over-rated team.
FL QB was 11 for 30 before their last drive. Ended up at 40%. The interesting part about Texas moving up is that they lost their starting QB for 4-6 weeks.
After 2 weeks in the books, these rankings are highly suspect, as usual. Especially when overrated teams play each other. Like Pitt vs Tenn. Ratings at this point are just marketing tools for the tv stations.
After 2 weeks in the books, these rankings are highly suspect, as usual. Especially when overrated teams play each other. Like Pitt vs Tenn. Ratings at this point are just marketing tools for the tv stations.
It's an exercise in anchoring. Over-rated team A loses to team B transferring that over-rating.
Yeah I watched the last 3 quarters of the Kentucky/Florida game. Some people like to complain about Franklin but what Napier did to the Florida QB in the second half was atrocious Kid was starting his 3rd game and after he threw the pick six, Napier turtled up and called runs on 1sr and 2nd down which put him in 3rd and long repeatedly. Even went for it on 4th down on his side of midfield with about 7 minutes left in a 7 point game with a predictable outcome. Kept showing the kid on the sidelines and you could tell his confidence was shot—looked like a deer in headlights.
Napier definitely didn't do the kid any favors for sure after the pick 6. He went as vanilla as you can get and cost them any chance of a win with poor play calling.
