AP preseason #18, interesting trend

[jedburks]

Morning Bell: Preseason polls, we love you, but we can never trust you - Football Study Hall

Interesting trend going against Nebraska this year. With our schedule and our offense, we can't possibly fall into this trap right? I sure as fuck hope not or else there will be hell to pay.

 

[huskers1217]

jed. all links should just go to scantily clad womenz...for irules sake.



but seriously...if the blowouts dont wake Nebraska up..nothing will.

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

There are a hell of a lot worse "trends" to worry about then the AP poll. I hope worrisome trends like fundamental discipline, ball security and anemic lines will be worried about. But as trends go "You saw them, you tell me."

 

[jedburks]

There are a hell of a lot worse "trends" to worry about then the AP poll. I hope worrisome trends like fundamental discipline, ball security and anemic lines will be worried about. But as trends go "You saw them, you tell me."

Oh hell yes there are worse trends. I just kind it interesting that #18 is tied for last with 3 for the fewest amount of teams being ranked in the final poll and we just happened to be it.

But then again, I find some really weird things to be interesting. (Almost went to a mom joke there but decided against it)

 

[Red_Alert]

Would like to see the algorithm for why #18 ends up unranked more often than not. Interesting trend for sure.

Obviously those that rank the pre-season #18 team lowest (low 20's, if even top 25) are correct in their evaluation.

 

[huskers1217]

2011 Ohio St Buckeyes
2010 NOrth Carolina Tar Heels
2009 FSU
2008 Tennessee Vols
2007 Auburn
2006 Clemson
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2004 Missouri

 

[huskers1217]

2011 OSU

2011 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Schedule
Final Record: 6-7, 3-5 (Big Ten)
Date Opponent Time/TV Tickets
Saturday
Sept. 3 Akron Zips
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Won 42-0 ---
Saturday
Sept. 10 Toledo Rockets
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Won 27-22 ---
Saturday
Sept. 17 at Miami (FL) Hurricanes
Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL Lost 24-6 ---
Saturday
Sept. 24 Colorado Buffaloes
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Won 37-17 ---
Saturday
Oct. 1 Michigan State Spartans
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Lost 10-7 ---
Saturday
Oct. 8 at Nebraska Cornhuskers
Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, NE Lost 34-27 ---
Saturday
Oct. 15 at Illinois Fighting Illini
Memorial Stadium, Champaign, IL Won 17-7 ---
Saturday
Oct. 22 --- Open Date --- ---
Saturday
Oct. 29 Wisconsin Badgers
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Won 33-29 ---
Saturday
Nov. 5 Indiana Hoosiers
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Won 34-20 ---
Saturday
Nov. 12 at Purdue Boilermakers
Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, IN Lost 26-23 ---
Saturday
Nov. 19 Penn State Nittany Lions
Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OH Lost 20-14 ---
Saturday
Nov. 26 at Michigan Wolverines
Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, MI Lost 40-34 ---
2012 Taxslayer.com Gator Bowl
Monday
Jan. 2 Florida Gators
EverBank Field, Jacksonville, FL Lost 24-17 ---

 

[huskers1217]

2010 north carolina

2010 North Carolina Tar Heels Football Schedule
Final Record: 8-5, 4-4 (ACC)
Date Opponent Result Tickets
Saturday
Sept. 4 LSU Tigers
Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA Lost 30-24 ---
Saturday
Sept. 11 --- Open Date --- ---
Saturday
Sept. 18 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Lost 30-24 ---
Saturday
Sept. 25 at Rutgers Scarlet Knights
High Point Solutions Stadium, Piscataway, NJ Won 17-13 ---
Saturday
Oct. 2 East Carolina Pirates
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Won 42-17 ---
Saturday
Oct. 9 Clemson Tigers
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Won 21-16 ---
Saturday
Oct. 16 at Virginia Cavaliers
Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, VA Won 44-10 ---
Saturday
Oct. 23 at Miami (FL) Hurricanes
Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, FL Lost 33-10 ---
Saturday
Oct. 30 William & Mary Tribe
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Won 21-17 ---
Saturday
Nov. 6 at Florida State Seminoles
Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee, FL Won 37-35 ---
Saturday
Nov. 13 Virginia Tech Hokies
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Lost 26-10 ---
Saturday
Nov. 20 NC State Wolfpack
Kenan Memorial Stadium, Chapel Hill, NC Lost 29-25 ---
Saturday
Nov. 27 at Duke Blue Devils
Wallace Wade Stadium, Durham, NC Won 24-19 ---
2010 Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
Thursday
Dec. 30 Tennessee Volunteers
LP Field, Nashville, TN Won 30-27
(2 OT) ---

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Would like to see the algorithm for why #18 ends up unranked more often than not. Interesting trend for sure.

Obviously those that rank the pre-season #18 team lowest (low 20's, if even top 25) are correct in their evaluation.

There is no rhyme or reason for it......all by chance that it turns out that way.

Give it another 15 years and there will be a different trend. There always has to be a trend of some sort.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Nebraska is NOT going to be unranked this season at any point.

 

[huskers1217]

Nebraska is NOT going to be unranked this season at any point.

lose to UCLA..and you know.

 

[Red_Alert]

Nebraska is NOT going to be unranked this season at any point.

The kiss of fucking death.

 

[Brasky]

Junk science. No rhyme or reason. Too many variables.

 

[Brasky]

Nebraska is NOT going to be unranked this season at any point.

Yep long as they beat UCLA it's pretty much impossible for them to drop out of the top 25 from that point on.

No way in hell this team finishes unranked.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

We honestly could probably suffer a 1 score loss to UCLA and remain in the top 25.

#14 Notre Dame plays #17 Michigan in week 2.......so there is 1 team that falls behind us. We might be up to #16 by the time we play UCLA.

Meanwhile, UCLA is ranked only 3 spots behind us.....so it's not like that would be graded as a bad loss.

 

[iruletheskool]

^implying

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

We aint gonna lose a single game though

 

[Brasky]

We aint gonna lose a single game though

Nope.

 

[Brasky]

I been thinking about this for a while. If we go into the B1G CCG undefeated, we aren't going to lose that game. That is just a fact.

If we were good enough to get through that schedule undefeated regardless of a couple stretches of weak opponents, I have little doubt about our chances of beating whoever we get matched up against. Whether it be Ohio or Wisconsin.

If we go undefeated regular season, we are going to the National title game and no one is gonna tell me different.

Yes I've been drinking.

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

Those last five games will test us. If we make it through those undefeated we should win the CCG.



edit:Of course we could do like last year.