AP Poll #10

rosshm16

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Losses in the Big 10 and SEC are quality losses because those two conferences are "meat grinders" even though the three best teams mostly don't play each other.
 

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Fun to be ranked #9 in the AP poll. But I just don’t get dissecting the poll. The only ranking worth while is the CFP ranking, and we won’t have the first glimpse of that for a few more weeks. We’ve seen in years past the AP and coaches poll often will look different than the CFP rankings.

I’m thrilled to see the cyclones 6-0, with the team looking more confident each week. Just keep winning
 

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For the moment, I believe, ISU has 2 preseason preseason 10 basketball along with it's top 10 football team

Should set up some kind of special We Will donation


Kick in an extra $30 bucks into We Will 3 x 10

On top of my monthly just sent another 30
 

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Looking at the weekend's game results I honestly expected to have ISU rank stay the same or even drop 1 to #12.

Not because it's necessarily correct, I just don't expect to be given any benefit of the doubt since not a blue-blood.

So I am pleasantly pleased to be in the top 10.
 

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Looking at the weekend's game results I honestly expected to have ISU rank stay the same or even drop 1 to #12.

Not because it's necessarily correct, I just don't expect to be given any benefit of the doubt since not a blue-blood.

So I am pleasantly pleased to be in the top 10.
Cyclone Underexpectation Syndrome.

The cure is extended doses of Matt Campbell.
 
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ISU also has only 1 win against a P4 team above 500.

It’s halfway through the season and barely into conference play, you can argue just about any point but still way too much season ahead to draw any real conclusions

Which is actually the same as LSU.

The teams LSU has beaten collectively own 3 total wins over P4 schools (this number is 5 for ISU).

LSU’s OT win at home over Ole Miss is good enough to jump them 5 spots up into the top 10. This is ahead of where Ole Miss was, and over 4 teams that won.

Ole Miss’s OT loss on the road to LSU was bad enough to drop them 9 places in the poll, which quite frankly probably means they should be unranked at this point.

I’m not naive, but it is still somewhat irksome that what at first blush appears to be incoherent volatility preserves a top 10 poll slot for the SEC.

Imagine on 11/2 Texas Tech beats an undefeated ISU. Both Ole Miss and LSU have won their games over this period.

Ole Miss would be 7-2 with wins over potentially 1 ranked team.

ISU would be 7-1 with wins over what could potentially be 2 ranked teams.

LSU would be 8-1 with wins over 1 ranked team, and potentially a 2nd (though that likely takes away Ole Miss’s ranked team victory). Their loss is to a team that at best is 6-3.

Tech would be 8-1 with wins over 1 ranked team and potentially 2 more ranked teams. Their loss is to a team that could be 7-1, with their lone loss being to a likely playoff team.

Could Tech potentially leapfrog over that Top 10 LSU team?
 

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Fun to be ranked #9 in the AP poll. But I just don’t get dissecting the poll. The only ranking worth while is the CFP ranking, and we won’t have the first glimpse of that for a few more weeks. We’ve seen in years past the AP and coaches poll often will look different than the CFP rankings.

I’m thrilled to see the cyclones 6-0, with the team looking more confident each week. Just keep winning

I don’t think people are prepared for the amount of tomfuckery the committee will pull to lift up the B1G and SEC.
 

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Iowa State is one of eleven Undefeated FBS teams and ranked #09.

There are a few one loss teams ahead of them and a few undefeated teams behind them.

Might as well keep on winning to keep people wonderning about these Cyclones!