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USA Today Poll RK TEAM RECORD PTS

1 Mississippi State (40) 8-0 1526

2 Florida State (22) 8-0 1501

3 Auburn 7-1 1355

4 Alabama 7-1 1349

5 Oregon 8-1 1289

6 Michigan State 7-1 1241

7 TCU 7-1 1150

8 Notre Dame 7-1 1121

9 Kansas State 7-1 1087

10 Baylor 7-1 957

11 Ohio State 7-1 901

12 Arizona State 7-1 854

13 Ole Miss 7-2 793

14 Nebraska 8-1 766

15 LSU 7-2 636

16 Oklahoma 6-2 601

17 Georgia 6-2 508

18 UCLA 7-2 438

19 Clemson 6-2 394

20 Duke 7-1 320

21 Arizona 6-2 307

22 Utah 6-2 253

22 Marshall 8-0 253

24 Wisconsin 6-2 146

25 West Virginia 6-3 130

 

AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS

1 Mississippi State (45) 8-0 1484

2 Florida State (15) 8-0 1452

3 Auburn 7-1 1345

4 Alabama 7-1 1281

5 Oregon 8-1 1275

6 TCU 7-1 1148

7 Michigan State 7-1 1120

8 Notre Dame 7-1 1096

9 Kansas State 7-1 1049

10 Baylor 7-1 961

11 Arizona State 7-1 831

12 Ole Miss 7-2 828

13 Ohio State 7-1 780

14 LSU 7-2 717

15 Nebraska 8-1 680

16 Oklahoma 6-2 574

17 Georgia 6-2 465

18 UCLA 7-2 464

19 Clemson 6-2 341

20 Utah 6-2 327

21 Arizona 6-2 325

22 Duke 7-1 288

23 Marshall 8-0 238

24 West Virginia 6-3 159

25 Wisconsin 6-2 83

One of those is last week's poll.

Quote:One of those is last week's poll.

Fixed. ESPN put the playoff order where the AP use to be.

Just the typical SEC bias.

 

Am I doing that right?

Shows that as the SEC teams knock each other off they won't hang around in the top 5-8 just because they lost to a good team. Possible a 1-loss Mississippi State and a 1-loss Bama gets into the playoffs, but no way a 2-loss SEC team does.

Quote:Shows that as the SEC teams knock each other off they won't hang around in the top 5-8 just because they lost to a good team. Possible a 1-loss Mississippi State and a 1-loss Bama gets into the playoffs, but no way a 2-loss SEC team does.

Finally, common sense creeps in.

Why is Ole Miss still ranked above Ohio State with two losses?

Quote:Just the typical SEC bias.

 

Am I doing that right?

 

Obviously. If there was no SEC bias a 7-2 team would not be ranked higher than an 8-1 team.

3/5 SEC in top five.  overrated right?

Quote:Why is Ole Miss still ranked above Ohio State with two losses?

 

maybe because they beat somebody good???

 

Quote:Why is Ole Miss still ranked above Ohio State with two losses?

 

Just because you have two losses doesn't mean you arent better than that team.  Ole Miss would wax Ohio State.

Quote:3/5 SEC in top five. overrated right?

TCU could easily be in top 5. We will see how it ends at the end of season.

Quote:Obviously. If there was no SEC bias a 7-2 team would not be ranked higher than an 8-1 team.

 

Is it bias, or are people logically thinking about this?  

 

Either way, I don't see Ole Miss making it through without another loss or two.  They just lost probably their best player on offense and their qb makes bad decisions in crunch time.

I think Ole Miss will be behind Ohio State and the other weak schedule 1-loss teams when the committee rankings come out. I wonder if the polls here are echoing what they saw from the playoff rankings with LSU behind nearly all the 1-loss contenders.

Quote:Maybe because they beat somebody good?

 

No, because of something called SEC bias. If Ole Miss was in the ACC they would be ranked lower than Ohio State because of their two losses.

Quote:No, because of something called SEC bias. If Ole Miss was in the ACC they would be ranked lower than Ohio State because of their two losses.

 

If Ole Miss was in the ACC they wouldn't have played and beaten the competition they have up to this point.....lets put a little thought into this.

 

Ohio State sucks and is going to lose AGAIN this weekend.  They got handled by Va Tech...go look at the year Va Tech has had and tell me OSU shouldn't be completely embarrassed by it.  Ol' Urbs loves to run up the score on scrubs though.

Quote:Is it bias, or are people logically thinking about this?  

 

Either way, I don't see Ole Miss making it through without another loss or two.  They just lost probably their best player on offense and their qb makes bad decisions in crunch time.

 

Logical thinking is 8-1 > 7-2, so Nebraska is supposed to be ranked higher than Ole Miss.

 

You also cannot say it is because Ole Miss played tougher opponents than #12 Nebraska and #5 Oregon, which has the same record, is not overrated at the same time because the Pacific 12 is no better than the Big Ten. How do you explain that one?

Quote:Logical thinking is 8-1 > 7-2, so Nebraska is supposed to be ranked higher than Ole Miss.

 

You also cannot say it is because Ole Miss played tougher opponents than #12 Nebraska and #5 Oregon, which has the same record, is not overrated at the same time because the Pacific 12 is no better than the Big Ten. How do you explain that one?

 

The Pac 12 is light years ahead of the Big 10.   Of the Big 5 conferences, the Big 10 is the weakest.

 

8-1 is not always better than 7-2.  If a team that is 7-2 has lost to two of the better teams in the country, and the team that is 8-1 lost to a pitiful team...then isn't it logical that the 8-2 team would beat the 7-1 team?  

 

I get that Ohio State is one of the many....many teams you root for, but you are wrong.  Again.

Quote:No, because of something called SEC bias. If Ole Miss was in the ACC they would be ranked lower than Ohio State because of their two losses.

 

this is like... a real post?

 

Quote:this is like... a real post?

 

 

I don't know why I am putting myself though this.