#19 in AP poll

[TnHusker65]

The rankings have become garbage since the eSECpn era has come about. Most college football fans in TN believe whatever espn tells them. So when a team like Ole Miss comes along and the media pumps them as a top ten team no one questions them. It doesn't matter that they were 8-5 last year with a less than impressive win against Georgia tech in a bowl or the fact they have no credible wins this year. They must be good because they play in the best division in college football as all the media states. The media has to build up the sec west for bama to have a shot at the playoff given the chance they are a one loss team based off of SOS. If Nebraska was in the sec west with our record, we would be top 5 easy. Come November, the teams in the west will be thinning out and if we keep winning the rest will sort itself out. Imagine the chaos if we win out and ND beats Florida state. The sec all beat each other so no one is undefeated. Big 10, big 12, and maybe pac 12( ucla) are undefeated. Now make the case for a potentially undefeated notre dame or one loss acc vs a one loss sec. This year will be worse than all the bcs BS of years past IMO

[admo]

Why would normal college football fans across the nation care about Alabama vs Ole Miss? Surely no one would pay close attention, if any at all. But if you slap a little symbol and number like #11 next to Ole Miss, it starts up conversation, false anticipation and helps the TV tuners. I think it is obvious that college football fans are more intelligent than that anymore. Ole Miss and Miss State are now replacing the highly inaccurate estimation of South Carolina, Georgia, and LSU.

 

Not only that, but there are some teams out there every year that fight and crawl their way in from the outside, under the radar for weeks. Barely hovering in the top 18-25 range. The second they stumble they are basically removed from the top 25. Meanwhile certain brand name teams like USC, Texas, Notre Dame and others are stamped with a high pre-season ranking, lose early, then it's widely called an upset, yet they remain in the top 15 because they were rated too high in the first place. Two or three weeks later they lose again and still remain in the top 25. It's un justice to all the other teams out there that are having a nice early season (story) to embrace momentum. Forget Cinderella and inspiration anymore, this dance is closed.

[JTrain]

Here is what is frustrating.

 

 

Texas A&M starts the season at #21 and beats #9 South Carolina in week 1, catapulting them up 12 spots to #9 themselves. Except that South Carolina is now unranked.

 

So Texas A&M is at #6 in the nation with the resume of beating:

 

unranked South Carolina (3-2),

unranked FCS Lamar (3-2),

unranked Rice (1-3),

unranked SMU (0-4),

unranked Arkansas (barely) (3-2).

 

 

Meanwhile, Nebraska is at #19 in the nation with the resume of beating:

 

unranked Florida Atlantic (2-4),

#4 FCS McNeese State (2-1),

unranked Fresno State (2-3),

unranked Miami (3-2),

unranked Illinois (3-2).

 

 

 

The resumes are honestly and literally remarkably similar.

 

People only seem to realize the many problems with the human poll system when their team is being hurt/underrated by it. Nebraska benefited from the system for 30 years, being perennial preseason top ten members.

 

Now, Texas A&M (before today ) still had a good case to be ahead of us, which they are in the unbiased systems (http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm). Especially the systems that consider MOV. Nebraska's best win was over #40 (using the rankings listed) by 10 points, while TAMU beat #27 South Carolina by 24 points and also beat #25 Arkansas. Nebraska's next best win was over #72 Illinois.

 

So yes, the human systems are crap, but in this particular instance I don't have much of an issue (even if they only happen to be right like the broken clock analogy).

 

The important part is, with a win tonight Nebraska will be ahead of Texas A&M in every system. And more importantly, if Nebraska somehow manages to go 13-0, they'll finish in the top four, regardless of the stupidity of the polls (which of course will carry over to the almighty "Selection Committee" to some degree).

[JTrain]

The rankings have become garbage since the eSECpn era has come about. Most college football fans in TN believe whatever espn tells them. So when a team like Ole Miss comes along and the media pumps them as a top ten team no one questions them. It doesn't matter that they were 8-5 last year with a less than impressive win against Georgia tech in a bowl or the fact they have no credible wins this year. They must be good because they play in the best division in college football as all the media states. The media has to build up the sec west for bama to have a shot at the playoff given the chance they are a one loss team based off of SOS. If Nebraska was in the sec west with our record, we would be top 5 easy. Come November, the teams in the west will be thinning out and if we keep winning the rest will sort itself out. Imagine the chaos if we win out and ND beats Florida state. The sec all beat each other so no one is undefeated. Big 10, big 12, and maybe pac 12( ucla) are undefeated. Now make the case for a potentially undefeated notre dame or one loss acc vs a one loss sec. This year will be worse than all the bcs BS of years past IMO

 

 

Why would normal college football fans across the nation care about Alabama vs Ole Miss? Surely no one would pay close attention, if any at all. But if you slap a little symbol and number like #11 next to Ole Miss, it starts up conversation, false anticipation and helps the TV tuners. I think it is obvious that college football fans are more intelligent than that anymore. Ole Miss and Miss State are now replacing the highly inaccurate estimation of South Carolina, Georgia, and LSU.

 

 

 

GREAT NOW ESPN MADE OLE MISS BEAT ALABAMA! AND ALABAMA ISN'T EVEN GOOD, THEY WERE JUST RANKED #1 CUZ ESPN BRAINWASHED EVERYONE! BOYCOTT!

[Notre Dame Joe]

Lot's of space became available in the top 10. Get'ur done.

[Abdullah the Butcher]

What in the blue hell will the polls look like today?

[Jeremy]

Won't matter, because we won't be in the top 25. Again. 13 straight years of irrelevance is really starting to suck.