Does Wisconsin play a ranked team this year?

[KingKoolKat75]

Michigan will probably be ranked this week.

 

[AlaskaGuy]

Winning the PAC isn’t an accomplishment — the last time the conference was relevant, Pete Carroll was the coach at USC.

btw what bowl game do you see Michigan going to this season after Ohio St. pushes your shit in.

 

[KingKoolKat75]

btw what bowl game do you see Michigan going to this season after Ohio St. pushes your shit in.

You should probably pull for Wisconsin to win the BIG.

 

[kburjr]

You should probably pull for Wisconsin to win the BIG.

Shouldn't everybody?

 

[BoomerNTX]

The "eye" test. Frequently used this season when ranking Bama #1. Their one decent game was FSU perhaps, although FSU is now a dumpster fire. Yet, Wisky and the U are both undefeated having played nobody great and are deemed "overrated".

Time will sort things out. Bama has LSU, Miss St, Mercer and Aub left. Compared to the other P5 leaders, Bama has had an easy ride. Wisky not far behind. tOSU and Penn battled, and tOSU came out good. OU beat tOSU at the horseshoe. UGA beat ND in South Bend. ND beat USC and NC St back to back. Bedlam will give either OU another quality win or OSU their first real quality win.

Dark Horse of the year has to go to ISU. Beating #3 at the time OU in Norman and then #4 TCU. Seriously.....who thought they had it in them?

Will the playoff committee go by the eye test or will they actually base rankings on merit? We'll know in a few days.

 

[Wamu]

Michigan will probably be ranked this week.

Well they do have a lot to brag about. Not only did the wolvereeeens beat a very crappy Rutgers team 1 of their unknown back up QB's threw a fucking TD pass! Can you believe that shit!?

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

btw what bowl game do you see Michigan going to this season after Ohio St. pushes your shit in.

Bowl game? Who cares? If you aren’t in the CFP, they are meaningless. So I couldn’t care less what bowl game UM plays in. I’m all for UM emptying the bench and getting guys experience for next year.

That being said — I’d be ecstatic to face Arizona State. I hear they have one of the top defenses in the NCAA, to see how UM stacks up

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

As for the first CFP rankings, it will be Bama, Clemson, Georgia and ND in the top 4 with OSU 5 and Wisconsin 6. Arizona State will be 7th, amiright @AlaskaGuy?

 

[iowajerms]

Michigan will probably be ranked on game day, not sure about final rankings. They have Minnesota and Maryland before Wisconsin. Michigan can beat them.

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

As for the first CFP rankings, it will be Bama, Clemson, Georgia and ND in the top 4 with OSU 5 and Wisconsin 6. Arizona State will be 7th, amiright @AlaskaGuy?

I take it back. Oklahoma would be 5, with OSU 6, Wisconsin 7, then Arizona State

 

[rmilia1]

Their OOC schedule this year was a joke. It doesn't matter what they "consistently" schedule. There's no reason to reward that kind of schedule-padding, irrespective of how lousy the rest of your conference opponents are.

If we aren't rewarding teams for consistency then why is everyone here voting a team number one who's best win is a 8 point win over 5-3 A&M?

 

[rmilia1]

Bullshit. Pure and utter bullshit.

You give them an excuse for having a terrible conference schedule, which is fine. Then give them a pass for normally having a solid OOC. Florida Atlantic, Utah State, and BYU. There is nothing solid about that. Further, they had Washington scheduled for a H/H and originally for '17/'18, changed it once to '18/'21 and the dumped it all together. This wasn't done to them, they did it to themselves.

They aren't alone with bullshit schedules. Quite a few ranked teams have nothing but garbage and that trend will likely continue to grow given you can get ranked highly without ever having to actually play a team with a pulse so why wouldn't it become more the norm?

Washington's is bad, Wisconsin's is terrible, hell Bama's is bad given that FSU is pure trash this year.

Call it what it is and stop making excuses for it.

Yes this year it's bad . Regularly it's not .

 

[fishinabarrel]

If we aren't rewarding teams for consistency then why is everyone here voting a team number one who's best win is a 8 point win over 5-3 A&M?

3 CFP appearances out of 3 chances, 3-2 in those appearances and a natty could be why

 

[rmilia1]

3 CFP appearances out of 3 chances, 3-2 in those appearances and a natty could be why

Well I'd say that's consistency . And I'd agree. I'm asking why some are picking and choosing when to apply that logic.

 

[jjc2009]

If we aren't rewarding teams for consistency then why is everyone here voting a team number one who's best win is a 8 point win over 5-3 A&M?

This makes no sense.

The actual results matter. Not what has happened in past years.

 

[WizardHawk]

Is a Washington fan really talking about someone having a cupcake schedule?

Yes dipshit, learn to read. I said ours wasn't good either.

You really are fucking retarded.

 

[WizardHawk]

I think the Washington game was a victim of the Big Ten's switch to a 9 game conference schedule.

I don't remember why they originally dropped the first deal when it was for 17 and 18 and changed it to 18 and 21, but in any event they still set their own OOC and put BYU as their best game. BYU happens to suck ass. There are quite a few ranked teams that are similar victims of their own scheduling in the same way. So far the committee hasn't really made teams pay for it.

 

[WizardHawk]

Yes this year it's bad . Regularly it's not .

What do those two things have to do with each other? I mean Washington played LSU and Boise State when they were good in recent years, but it doesn't change they have crap right now. The why doesn't change things either.

Call a crap schedule a crap schedule. Trying to somehow excuse it because of history makes no sense.

 

[Smart]

Their OOC schedule this year was a joke. It doesn't matter what they "consistently" schedule. There's no reason to reward that kind of schedule-padding, irrespective of how lousy the rest of your conference opponents are.

Your argument is that we deserve to be punished for scheduling a true road game against a team ranked 5 of the last 6 years and coming off 60 wins in 6 years (at the time we scheduled them)? That's the best you got?

 

[TrustMeIamRight]

Yes dipshit, learn to read. I said ours wasn't good either.

You really are fucking retarded.

‘Retarded’ is even opening your mouth when your OOC consists of teams like Idaho, Portland State and Montana over the last two years, with your best OOC opponent being a pathetic Rutgers team, not once, but twice — and the best game on your schedule is against who? Stanford, who just battled Oregon State to a 15-14 game? Or was it Arizona State?