That was my bad. Meant to plug them in at 10 at everyone else should be down a slot after. Sorry Sun Devils, better luck next week.
Utah State ain't bad at all. JMO.
B1G
I agree. They're likely a 6-7 win team but ask yourself does beating a decent MWC team at home and losing to a decent P12 team in the road make you deserving of being ranked? The only reason to rank MSU at this point would be based on preseason expectations which is probably still ok for a few more weeks as long as there arent more deserving teams, which I think there are
I agree with you. MSU probably doesn't deserve much of a ranking right now based off those.
Coming from you these days, that insult means nothing.
Sure. I think preseason rankings are dumb and moving teams up or down based on games played vs teams who we doht even know are good or bad is also dumb .
Well he's the self-appointed SportsHoopla Poll Potentate so, yeah....
Well he's the self-appointed SportsHoopla Poll Potentate so, yeah....
In Michigan's defense, they DID lose to a top ten team ON THE ROAD by a touchdown.
Washington lost to Aub by 5 at a neutral site and can still pull down an average ranking of 11th or so...
And you didn’t care when the bowls were stacked in the SEC’s favor. And with the exception of Kentucky and Northwestern, they were all playing teams that finished similarly in their respective conferences.
Calm the fuck down. After last season, every single person who said the B1G was the best conference was justified in doing so. Bowl games stacked in their favor? Fuck off. For years the B1G had games stacked against them, both in location and conference seeding, so if anything, last year might have been an effort to level the field. Man, you used to be smart and not such a fag. Did your wife take over your account and only posts when she's deep in her monthly or something?
When were the bowl games stacked in the SEC's favor? The SEC has sent a team to the playoffs every year so far, and then before that to the BCSNCG for basically all the later years.
It's when you have teams that don't make the NCG and playoffs that the bowl pecking order gets stacked.
There are individual games and such, but as a whole when a conference puts a team into the playoffs, then it doesn't put their top teams in their top bowls etc. Take Auburn for example - on the one hand I would say they had what should have been an easier matchup. But at the same time, that was still the #3 SEC team playing in the SEC's #1 bowl. Meanwhile you had Ohio St in the Rose Bowl, but then that lined up because the Pac12 also put the #1 team in against them etc.
Of course, the Big12 and ACC both started 1 down. And then the Big10 the prior year when Ohio St went - 1 down, etc.
Still with the SEC down 2, Michigan lost to South Carolina. Which was last year and all that - but what have they done this year that warrants a top15 spot is my point.
And yes, people should recognize the match up differences and adjust accordingly. The Big10 also played a bunch of Pac12 teams(which were even matchups, except they are Pac12 teams). I personally don't think it's a coincidence I said the Big10 was over-hyped because of this stuff, everyone talking about the Big10's bowl records to hype, and then they come out looking over-hyped.
Oh have you, Dr. Jones?
Not talking about cold weather/warm weather. Talking about playing Pac 12 teams in 1-2x in CA and 2-3x SEC teams in Florida/other SEC states every year. Our teams are traveling across the country while our opponents are, oftentimes, playing in their own back yard.
