Pre-Season AP Poll
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We're ISU. Our path to the playoffs is to go undefeated and hope there are less than four teams with one or zero losses.
If we'd go undefeated, win the Big 12 title, and beat OU or TX two times, we'd be in the CFP unless there were 4 other undefeated teams.
I was also thinking that Baylor would get some votes over WV. Mr. Hairdo got out of WV with the cupboard bare.
Still think that the ghostly looking figure aura at KSU will somehow have the Cats getting votes my year end. Just because he is not at the helm does not mean he doesn't have any say in things. We got him him last and took his ninth live but he will somehow weave his magic from behind the coaching grave.
Is that the guy who mans the lost and found table in the KState media room?#1 reason K-State is in for a long season...
I hate the "4 best teams" narrative. It just gives the committee justification for an SEC or B1G bias. Iowa State would never get in under those circumstances. 13-0 But still not impressive enough.
(Doubtful but possible.)
Baylor and TCU went 11-1 and these were things that were said
Time to #ProveIt
Several preseason top 25 teams from last year underachieved or had a losing record!
Several preseason top 25 teams from last year underachieved or had a losing record!
A 13-0 Big 12 team is getting in 10 times out of 10. Add on loss to the equation and that's when the committee is able to massage the numbers to make it work for the SEC or tOSU.
Back to back 4-8 seasons is garbage but i dont think people even care to look why everyone high on Nebby. Their QB is probably one of the top dual threats in the country. Yes hes legit, he was a nightmare as a true freshman especially the last 6 games. The offense that they had on the field at the end of the season was kicking ass and they were all true freshman and sophomores. They hit the transfer market and have completely changed their defense. Two 340 pounders One was a Starting DT at Oklahoma State and another would have slid into a rotation at either Bama or South Carolina if a technicality hadnt stopped him from enrolling. a 330 pounder and 2 320 pounders. They didnt have a fraction of that size last year and it showed.
That in my opinion is the key to their season. Frost will put a UCF/ Oregon offense on the field, can their defense get turnovers and actually stop someone? i have no confidence in them until the have a good season for the first time in years. But i know what that offense will look like and it will be harder than hell for anyone to stop.
That in my opinion is the key to their season. Frost will put a UCF/ Oregon offense on the field, can their defense get turnovers and actually stop someone? i have no confidence in them until the have a good season for the first time in years. But i know what that offense will look like and it will be harder than hell for anyone to stop.
Plus their schedule is soft AF. They get all of their tough games at home except for Purdue. If Nebraska has the offensive output everyone is expecting, it won't take much defensively to give them enough wiggle room to win a bunch of games.
Interesting to see the votes charted out like that. There is a handful of top 15 votes for us, choo choo!
I think Nebraska deserves a fringe top 25 ranking but the only reason they are actually getting it is the name. If you laid out that same explanation but changed the name to Iowa State it wouldn’t surprise me if there were no votes.
Urban Meyer is a heck of a politician and 2014 was proof.
Credit due as Ohio State was very impressive in the O.G. CFP but TCU was deserving. Oddly the first year of resolving the issues with the BCS we had a basis for expanding the playoff.
CycloneErik
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Credit for performing but there are teams every year that could put together two big games at the end of the season, its just that they don't get the chance - just like OSU should have never gotten the chance that year. The talking head schtick that "they got it right" for months after the season because OSU won missed the point altogether. Who is to say that TCU or Baylor couldn't have been just as impressive if they got the chance? The difference is that at least one of them actually earned the chance - OSU didn't.
