Just figured it out- they're playing Ohio State this weekend. Great excuse to bounce Ohio State up in the polls within range of the playoff if they win. This "poll" is nothing more than an excuse to arrange the pieces to get the desired results.
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Just figured it out- they're playing Ohio State this weekend. Great excuse to bounce Ohio State up in the polls within range of the playoff if they win. This "poll" is nothing more than an excuse to arrange the pieces to get the desired results.
I thought we would move up to around 18th. Our win over KU was comparable to NC State's win over Florida State. The Committee blew it this week.
Yeah, that loss to Iowa was pretty embarrassing.
The two rankings that are baffling are Michigan State and Kentucky. If Kentucky’s game we’re close I could see them only dropping 2 spots, but that was a beat down. Michigan Sate jumped to #18 for beating Maryland?! What is up with that? Kansas stomped Maryland (showing how good they are anyways) and we beat Kansas by a larger margin, yet not only do they get ranked but jump us and 6 other teams...for beating Maryland! LSU’s small drop is questionable, but not baffling. SEC and Big10 being coddled by the committee again.
Kansas beat Rutgers this year, not Maryland. Maryland beat Texas earlier this year.
You are right. But in C&G's defense it is easy to get the big 10's bottom feeders mixed up.
Overall SOS is more important than "best win", but since you asked ISU is their best win. A win over a top 25 CFP team is pretty solid. They also beat NIU whose only losses have come to P5 teams.
Don Doxsie was a troll before being a troll was a thing. I mean, we all hate on Randy Pete, but I'd definitely rather have him than Doxsie.
You are correct it’s hard to keep the Big 10 bottom feeders straight off the top of my head. Point still remains that Michigan State jumped too high for beating a bad team.
iowa's top two wins come from their non-conference schedule. That is all.
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But they have lost to every decent team they have played, and there have only been 3. Not counting ISU as decent, because at the beginning of the year the Clones were really not very good at all with a messed up OL, starting QB out and DM at half strength.
It seems nearly impossible to get a Hawk fan to swallow their pride and admit that ISU is the Hawks best win this season, so kudos to you for that. I also appreciate your acknowledgement that SOS is more important than "best win". If you take a look at this link, Iowa State had the #1 SOS before playing KU last week, but now sit at #7. I know the Hawks are ranked 1 spot higher in the CFP poll, but they've lost 2 in a row and have a real shot to take that skid to 3 against a Northwestern team that historically gives Iowa fits and is on a 6 game road winning streak. Meanwhile you've got an ISU team on a 4 game conference win streak and favored to take that streak on to 5 games.
https://www.teamrankings.com/college-football/ranking/schedule-strength-by-other
