2025 Polls and Rankings
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presidentjlh
All-Conference
I know this poll is kinda crap but man it just feels nice to see.#12 on ESPN FPI now. Jumped 20 spots.
Projected W/L of 9.2-2.9. 99.8% chance of a bowl game. 27.4% chance of making the playoffs.
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Crusader Husker
All-Conference
When people ask me where Nebraska has to finish this year, this is my response. They have to at least win the middle 6. Which is 7th. Anything higher, awesome; anything lower, a disappointment.
I know it was just Akron, but a couple of years ago, we didn't look that good on air.
Husker_In_WI
Guest
2 spots below Kansas State..
At some point, these statisticians should probably reevaluate their models if they want to be taken seriously. Or just don’t come out with the rankings till week 5 or so since they admit their modeling relies heavily on preseason projections.
None of the people making the models are claiming these are accurate yet, but they're going to get published because it's something to talk about. Anything with rankings gets clicks, they aren't going to withhold them for 5 weeks just to be more accurate. There's no model that can accurately assess the early season transitive win chaos and offseason + week to week improvement, but they can give a different perspective on teams. Everything at this point in the year is an overreaction, but sometimes the computers overreact to different things than the media so it's at least something different.
But I agree, the way they avoid incredibly wild swings by just saying things like "70% of the weight in this weeks ratings is actually just the preseason rankings" is pretty funny and clearly not a good rating system. Just a crutch to avoid looking crazy until more games are played, but when teams wildly under or overperform you end up looking crazy anyway. Some people are putting out rankings with no inputs aside from the games and they are just as bad (with different teams) as the ones using preseason rankings/returning production.
Red Five
Heisman Trophy Winner
Ok. How about #44 on SP+? Does that make you feel better?
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2 spots below Kansas State..
At some point, these statisticians should probably reevaluate their models if they want to be taken seriously. Or just don’t come out with the rankings till week 5 or so since they admit their modeling relies heavily on preseason projections.
Nebraska now checks in at #28. The Akron game wasn't updated in the system when SP+ originally ran.
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BigRedBuster
International Man of Mystery
Good.
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International Man of Mystery
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admo
Heisman Trophy Winner
SEC peeing their pants at the thought of OU, A&M, Texas & Mizzou among the top of "their SEC conference". Former Big 12 teams taking over.
However, they still have Georgia, and now Vandy - so they got that going for them.
