I'm not going to complain about the rank for ISU, but LSU jumping 5 spots to 8 is ridiculous.
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Florida is not good. Squeaking out a home win (in OT) against them as a top 10 team is not a good look for Tennessee, especially coming off an upset loss last week at Arkansas.
Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette votes us the #5 team in the land 
The AP rankings now include 10 of the 11 remaining unbeaten FBS teams. Liberty is the only unranked unbeaten.
ISU is ranked well ahead of three other unbeaten P4 teams in BYU, Indiana and Pitt. I think it's well-deserved given our smashing of BYU last season and ISU's SOS (30) compared to Indiana (71) and Pitt (59).
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ISU is ranked well ahead of three other unbeaten P4 teams in BYU, Indiana and Pitt. I think it's well-deserved given our smashing of BYU last season and ISU's SOS (30) compared to Indiana (71) and Pitt (59).
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Hopefully at least one of them beat the Irish.
Brett McMurphy has been pretty high on us for a few weeks now as well. Think he had us seventh.Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette votes us the #5 team in the land
Why? They beat a top ten team and everyone they passed beat unranked/bad teams
Eric Hansen of the South Bend Tribune has us #18. His poll is atrocious. ND at #7,
A&M at #8 to justify inflating ND. BYU #9 is somehow worthy of 9 spots higher than us. #14-17 right ahead of us are Ole Miss, KState, Boise State and SMU.
Some people don’t deserve to cover the sport.
A&M at #8 to justify inflating ND. BYU #9 is somehow worthy of 9 spots higher than us. #14-17 right ahead of us are Ole Miss, KState, Boise State and SMU.
Some people don’t deserve to cover the sport.
Let’s be honest.. Ole Miss was overrated. Never once felt like they were a top-ten team in what I’ve seen of them this year.
But by resume on paper, yes, LSU probably deserving of their spot.
"LSU is fantastic, they (barely) beat a Top 10 team"
"Mississippi is overrated, they lost (on the road, by three points) so they should drop nine spots"
It's a funny system. We credit teams for beating someone then immediately say well I guess that someone wasn't all that good.
"Mississippi is overrated, they lost (on the road, by three points) so they should drop nine spots"
It's a funny system. We credit teams for beating someone then immediately say well I guess that someone wasn't all that good.
BYU has beaten two top 25 teams. Yet not even in the top 10.
Meanwhile there are two 2-loss teams (both in the SEC and Big 10 of course) who lost last week and are still ranked for some reason. That pre-season top 10 ranking gives you a big buffer (as long as you're in the SEC or Big 10)!
If tech wins against Baylor and @tcu and we beat UCF, I could see a morning show coming to Ames. Gameday will likely go to Penn State with OSU coming to town but Big Noon would be smart to come to Ames in that scenario
Still lower than the playoff seed the Cyclones are getting.Dylan Sinn of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette votes us the #5 team in the land
The hope is that the committee will be much more cognizant of that because it's their freakin job. But we know we can't put too much stock in anything the committee does regarding the Big 12.
We're already seeing some in the national media start their Boise State for the 4th seed campaign. Anything to downgrade the Big 12.
Alternatively, LSU is just a team with a loss to an unranked team who just jumped up 5 spots into the top ten because they beat another team that already had a loss to an unranked team.
