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Baylor hosts Texas this weekend. Math nerds... Who should we cheer for? I feel like it's Texas, but I'm not sure
demoncore1031
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Penn State being ranked is a joke. Iowa in the top 10 is a joke. Michigan and MSU are not top 10 teams. Must be nice to play in a crap conference.
It's Texas for purely tie-breaker reasons. However, from now on, never root for Texas, is my motto.
Rankings are nice if that really mattered. Wins matter. Let's get all of them .
I hate Texas, but I think I will be rooting for Texas. ISU already lost to Baylor so removing them from the log jam at #2 helps ISU. Then ISU and OSU are tied for #2 with ISU having the head to head tie breaker. Texas is already a game behind.
Oklahoma State also only has one loss. They deserve to be higher than us.
That's crazy to me.
When the power rankings showed we were the better team going into the game, and we proved those rankings correct by beating them head to head, and yet the AP still ranks them higher than us just shows the AP ranking is nothing more than a beauty contest.
Assuming we take care of business in West Virginia next Saturday, I guarantee Iowa State will be the higher ranked team in the first college football playoff ranking. It's the only ranking that matters.
Some of you are hilarious. “Such and such isn’t a top 10 team!”
I freaking can’t stand the Big Ten as they and the SEC get propped up more than they should. But people, there has to be ten teams in the top 10 and this far into the season if you are 7-0 or 8-0 in a P5 you are going to be there 99% of the timeWake Forest to me should be in the top-10. Give Clemson that same record and schedule and they are top-3. We would be screaming if we were 7-0 and not in the top ten right now.
When it comes to Michigan and Michigan State, at least put who your top-10 would be if you don’t think they should be there. Here’s what I would vote top
1. Georgia
2. Cincinnati
3. Alabama
4. Michigan
5. Oklahoma
6. Oregon
7. Ohio State
8. Michigan State
9. Notre Dame
10. Wake Forest
11. Oklahoma State
mine is based off a combo of resume, eye test and record. I think people need to realize the next couple of weeks things are going to shuffle like crazy due to the CFP Rankings taking over and teams finally having to play against each other.
I freaking can’t stand the Big Ten as they and the SEC get propped up more than they should. But people, there has to be ten teams in the top 10 and this far into the season if you are 7-0 or 8-0 in a P5 you are going to be there 99% of the timeWake Forest to me should be in the top-10. Give Clemson that same record and schedule and they are top-3. We would be screaming if we were 7-0 and not in the top ten right now.
When it comes to Michigan and Michigan State, at least put who your top-10 would be if you don’t think they should be there. Here’s what I would vote top
1. Georgia
2. Cincinnati
3. Alabama
4. Michigan
5. Oklahoma
6. Oregon
7. Ohio State
8. Michigan State
9. Notre Dame
10. Wake Forest
11. Oklahoma State
mine is based off a combo of resume, eye test and record. I think people need to realize the next couple of weeks things are going to shuffle like crazy due to the CFP Rankings taking over and teams finally having to play against each other.
AP and even CFP rankings aren’t meant to be a pure analytics power ranking. OSU has a better resume than ISU. A 3 point win at him doesn’t change that. If you want to use your same logic if ISU wins the next two and Iowa loses two more should they be ranked ahead of ISU?
People want to discount the early losses like it’s an ESPN NFL power ranking because ISU is playing really well. ISU is probably one of the best 12-15 teams in the country, but ISU has an 18-23 type resume.
I agree. I think what grinds peoples gears is that these dumb rankings often put name recognition over analytics and those types of things in most scenarios. Which is dumb because the people that vote on these things “should” be aware of the numbers and informed but we know they are not and many times vote based on brand. But this kind of thing isn’t new and no one should be surprised. I’m not judging, it annoys me too even when it shouldn’t.
If we beat WV we will be inside the top 15 in the first playoff poll. It's always fun watching the AP voters "correct" their rankings after the first playoff poll comes out.
I've always looked at the AP and other media rankings as a way to tell how long since a team lost. The higher you are, the longer it has been since you lost. You never go up really; you just go down when you lose.
We want Texas to give Baylor their second conference loss because we can control head to head with Texas. This scenario would actually give Iowa State a little wiggle room as losing another game goes if we hold head to head on Texas.
Exactly this. Maybe this is the year ISU doesn’t get a big CFP bump, but it is shaping up to happen again. As analytics are used more and more, if ISU plays a clean game and cruises vs WVU be prepared for a top 15 in the first CFP followed by lots of butthurt from other fanbases.
