This is basically what got me starting looking at this. In particular, coming into the weekend you really couldn't argue with Mississippi State, Mississippi and Florida State being 1-3 in some order as they were the only (major) unbeaten. But then the argument is Alabama and Auburn are next becasue they only lost to those unbeaten teams. But now look at it. Alabama lost to the currently #7 team and beat the #20 team. They are ranked #3. Kansas State lost to the #4 team and beat the #19 team but they are all the way down at #11. What part of how they've played this season makes KState eight spots worse than Alabama other than what conference they play in?
Look at the rest of the schedules. Kansas St beat an FCS team (bama has yet to play theirs), had to come back late to beat a terrible Iowa St, UTEP, a pretty weak Texas Tech, and a talented but way underachieving Texas. Alabama's looks better: West Virginia (it will be interesting to see how KSU does with them); FAU and Southern Miss are like UTEP; Florida is their Texas; Arkansas isn't that good but did beat TTech handily; Tennessee is similar to those two. Alabama's resume is clearly better. Eight spots? I don't know. You'd have to look more closely at the other teams in between to talk about who really is better than Alabama and who is worse that K State. If Alabama loses again and K State wins out, KSU should move ahead. Not sure if that will really happen.
It's real easy to look at a couple of games or factors and make a case for or against any team. Somebody above tried to point out the teams Nebraska beat in the "others receiving votes" to compare against teams with wins over ranked teams, without adding the wins those teams also had against "others". You have to look at the whole picture,
Look at the whole picture? You compared Alabama's and K-State's schedule but completely ignored K-State's best win: at OU.
Because in that paragraph I said "look at the rest of their schedules", continuing the discussion where each team's loss and top win had already been pointed out. But OK, OU is better than A&M, but KSU barely got by OU while Alabama totally thumped A&M.
Fair enough. I think the resumes to this point are basically a wash and I certainly don't think they warrant the ranking disparity, but a wash nonetheless.
The team in the top 10 i have the most beef with (based on resume) is Notre Dame. Everyone fell in love with them after they lost, but their best win is at home against a Stanford team who is 1-3 in conference play.
