No, not really. SEC and big 10 teams are racking up wins over ranked teams who have no business being ranked. It makes their resumes look so much better than they actually are and that damage remains throughout the season.
ISU unranked in AP poll
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ISU has a better record vs top 10 and top 25 than Penn State over a loooooong period of time.
I'm guessing we have more "bad" losses in that stretch but you simply cannot say Penn State is better in big games with the current coaches. Maybe they're better at keeping it close, they sure as **** aren't better at winning a big game.
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Tex and PSU out. As they should be.
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Tex and PSU out. As they should be.
It's crazy those two are getting any votes. Would we be getting any votes with 2 losses and no Power 4 wins? Of course not. Hell, our own fans talk about how we don't have any good wins and we've beaten 3 power 4 teams.
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Cincinnati lurking just out of the top 25. Quite the world where beating Iowa State gets you some poll cred.
And ISU stays ranked ahead of UC, even though the Bearcats should be ranked ahead of ISU based on same record and head to head win. Poll inertia that benefits the Cyclones.
Let's keep it clean buddy.
With the AP rankings being the joke that they are, but still important in playoff selection, why do we even need conference guaranteed slots?
This is what the B1G and SEC want, but they get it anyway with a rigged AP ranking system. Indiana moves way up with a win over way overrated Illinois. They get more credit for beating Iowa than we do. ISU drops during a bye week and stays the same after a dominant win over AZ.
Basically the AP is just musical chairs, moving B1G and SEC teams in and out of the top slots depending on who beats who in conference week to week. The assumption always being that those 2 conferences are much, much better than the XII or ACC. That's highly debatable this year.
Just make the playoffs 16. Get rid of the byes. Top 3 in each P4, top 1 G5, 3 at-large. Then a BCS style system to fill those 4 G5/at-large spots and the seeding. Take as much human bias out of it as possible.
Never happen the B10 and SEC are not going to sign off for anything less than 4 spots guaranteed each year. If they thought they could pull it off it would be 4,4,1,1 for the P4 teams and then leave the other spots for ND, G5 and at large spots.
Yea, it is so basically rigged now that we might as well accept the 16 team playoff with 4 SEC, 4 B1G, 2 Big 12, 2 ACC, 1 G5 and 3 at large. At least the loser of the CCG might also get in.
As long as the SEC follows though with 9 conference games and all conferences agree to 10 P4 games, just as ISU has been playing since 2011.
As many have pointed out in this thread, preseason rankings just shouldn't exist.
This may have been posted elsewhere, but when was the last time that at team's fans rushed the field after a win over the Cyclones? Despite the loss I found some peculiar peace in witnessing that.
Totally agree. Also when is the last time a loss to UCLA or Florida would knock top 10 teams out of the top 25
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Kansas did it in 2014 -- rushed the field and took down the goalpost. Both teams were 2-6 coming into that game.
