ISU unranked in AP poll
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You aren't wrong it was the so called worst case. It just seems to me like the "worst case scenario" is actually pretty likely to occur each year given the "parity" / anyone can win any night .....type nature of the league.
I think that nature makes the regular season fun to watch but I think it will be very hard for the leagues top teams to avoid 1 or 2 conf losses each year.
Its hard in other conferences too, but when you have the talent gaps between the top teams compared to the middle and bottom, it gets easier. Not to mention the media bias which props them up.
As much as I don't like it, my expectation for the CFP is the big 12 gets 1 team each year.
This is why supporting the 5+11 model makes zero sense to me if you're a Big 12 fan. You're just opening the door for the CFP to screw you over every year.
Counting that just like Iowa fans claiming to have won a national title in football
Paul finebaum is an excellent example of why you should take your elderly relatives in for cognitive screening
Better yet, do it on Thursdays. Give everyone time to watch more games and make a better informed decision.
Thursday would just give ADs time to do a bunch of politicking to influence voters.
I'm mostly kidding...but am I?
If only he were just a doddering old fool. But he is a doddering old fool with a bullhorn at the bully pulpit.
Didn’t you guys beat a ranked penn st team a few years ago that finished 6-6? The consensus is that’s iowas last ranked win
We beat three ranked teams that year, including two in the top-10. I just remember hearing that it doesn't count as a ranked win if/when they fall out of the rankings.
For accuracy purposes, Penn State went 7-6 that year but your point remains. I was having this discussion with a friend group and came to the conclusion that ranked wins are ranked wins. If you beat a team with a little number by their name, it counts.
It’s misleading and you can debate legitimacy after the year is concluded, but there’s too much fluctuation with the rankings on a week to week basis.
Indiana just beat a top 10 Illinois team. Now, I would agree with people and say Illinois certainly didn’t look or play up to the standard of a top 10 team, let alone a top 25 team, but if Illinois would’ve won, we’d be talking about how Indiana lost to a top 10 team.
When the dust settles at the end of the year, you can then start diving into whether you had wins against good teams or if they were just paper tigers.
Yes, Iowa beat three teams that were ranked. Indiana finished 2-10 and Iowa State and Penn State finished 7-6.
You’re being purposefully obtuse to cope with the fact that Iowa hasn’t beaten a legitimate team since 2019.
Lol, no I'm really not. I agree with you that we haven't beaten a legit ranked team since 2019 or whenever. All I'm saying is that, by the same token, it seems weird to count KSU as a ranked win when they're 1-3, unranked, dead last in the Big 12, and clearly nowhere close to being a top-25 team.
I’m in full agreement that the Kansas State “ranked win” doesn’t feel legitimate. It is too early to say whether Kansas State figures it out, but I’d bet a lot of money they’re not receiving a single vote at the end of the year.
Week 13 and week 14 last year the small biased committee thought THREE G5 teams were better than the entire Big 12. Go back and look at those weeks, total insanity.
Army and Tulane were both above ASU and ISU very late in season and luckily they lost a game.
