Also, any team in the Pac12 being ranked is laughable as they went 1-9 in bowl games. Who cares if Stanford played in the Pac12 championship, their conference got buzz sawed in the bowl games...meaning other conferences have superior teams
Final AP Top 25 Poll
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True but a lot of the "others receiving votes" in the prior poll lost their bowl game so I thought it was pretty clear that Iowa State was going to be in the 25-30 range.
Final AP Top 25 (1/9)
1. Alabama (57) (13-1)
2. Georgia (13-2)
3. Oklahoma (12-2)
4. Clemson (12-2)
5. Ohio State (12-2)
6. Central Florida (4) (13-0)
7. Wisconsin (13-1)
8. Penn State (11-2)
9. TCU (11-3)
10. Auburn (10-4)
11. Notre Dame (10-3)
12. USC (11-3)
13. Miami (FL) (10-3)
14. Oklahoma State (10-3)
15. Michigan State (10-3)
16. Washington (10-3)
17. Northwestern (10-3)
18. LSU (9-4)
19. Mississippi State (9-4)
20. Stanford (9-5)
21. South Florida (10-2)
22. Boise State (11-3)
23. North Carolina State (9-4)
24. Virginia Tech (9-4)
25. Memphis (10-3)
Others Receiving Votes
Washington State, South Carolina, Iowa State, Army, Florida Atlantic, Troy, Fresno State, San Diego State, Iowa
1. Alabama (57) (13-1)
2. Georgia (13-2)
3. Oklahoma (12-2)
4. Clemson (12-2)
5. Ohio State (12-2)
6. Central Florida (4) (13-0)
7. Wisconsin (13-1)
8. Penn State (11-2)
9. TCU (11-3)
10. Auburn (10-4)
11. Notre Dame (10-3)
12. USC (11-3)
13. Miami (FL) (10-3)
14. Oklahoma State (10-3)
15. Michigan State (10-3)
16. Washington (10-3)
17. Northwestern (10-3)
18. LSU (9-4)
19. Mississippi State (9-4)
20. Stanford (9-5)
21. South Florida (10-2)
22. Boise State (11-3)
23. North Carolina State (9-4)
24. Virginia Tech (9-4)
25. Memphis (10-3)
Others Receiving Votes
Washington State, South Carolina, Iowa State, Army, Florida Atlantic, Troy, Fresno State, San Diego State, Iowa
Why does it not surprise me people are playing the victim card over not being ranked? We’d have the worst record in the top 25 if we were. Yeah, Stanford has 5 losses, but 9 wins to go with it. We had a great season. I don’t need a stupid ranking to tell me that.
Pretty sure ISU is the only state school to beat 2 Top Ten ranked teams (at the time they played) in the same season.
I think the fact that we're 28th in the final poll of the season speaks volumes. The difference between 25th and 28th is essentially non-existent.
I find this more disrespectful, why keep them in the top 25 when they lost to a team head to head pretty much at home. Also a 5 lose Stanford is in the top 25 @20.....
If ISU stays in the Top 30 for the foreseeable future (obviously with times that they're much higher/successful) and we're in for a very fun era.
This season was the first time in forever that I only saw the halftime score at Texas Tech and felt confident in the win. Still gun shy as I kept waiting for that 'ISU moment' but perhaps it's really turned a corner of sorts.
Well, the Iowa loss was a bad loss. Pretty sure that kept us out. 
******* Hawkeyes and their ******* Super Bowl.
******* Hawkeyes and their ******* Super Bowl.
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If we had take care of business against Iowa, OSU, and KSU....heck we were driving to tie it up against WVU.....could have had 11 wins this year and a top 10 finish. Oh well, I love that we were just a few plays from achieving that.
People who bring logic to message boards really irk me. This is no place to be rational. Take that **** to the water cooler.
That's the problem with the polls. Instead of looking each week at who deserves to be ranked they look at moving teams from the previous week. That results in teams that they had wrong early and had no business being ranked having a whole lot of inertia to stay in the polls and teams on the outside having to overcome that inertia to get in. Every voter should start with a blank sheet every week but I doubt that very many - if any - actually do.
Part of the problem is they start with a blank sheet and can't remember teams and go " what teams can I list now? I know, Michigan was good once and I can't think of that team in florida so lets just go with them and uuuuhhhhhh.....texas, yeah texas sounds good" and continues down the list
Full PollTracker voting detail for Iowa State, 2017-18.
Highest final position is #17, from David Briggs, who has ISU ranked ahead of Stanford and didn't put Memphis is top 25.
Highest final position is #17, from David Briggs, who has ISU ranked ahead of Stanford and didn't put Memphis is top 25.
