grandpasknee
All-Conference
If they have us as 12th, then dad gummit, we are 12th until someone beats us, or we beat others and move up. I'll gladly take it and believe, believe, believe!
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SuperBigFan69
Head Coach
Gotta love Husker fans...We hate Herbie and DiNardo because they don't suck our dong...but then we also hate the coaches for sucking our dong
Herbie87
Four-Star Recruit
These polls are mostly based on W-L records and if you don't lost you tend to jump the teams that do (as everyone already knows). The CFP committee will base their rankings more off of eye test and real analysis. I think if they released the first CFP rankings today we would be much lower than #12
marko polo
Special Teams Player
BIGREDIOWAN
Mods
So then we'd be ranked right around #15? So we're not ranked that much higher than we should be? We're going to find out here shortly what type of team we have here. They are either going to step up to the plate and live up to the hype or they won't. We'll find out in Wisconsin IF we remain undefeated between now and then.
Lyons in the Sea of Red.
All-Conference
So this is what it feels like to be a Hawkeye
Stumpy1
All-American
GBRHouston
Special Teams Player
I'll take the national attention for now. Good we're being respected a bit now.
AFhusker
Banned
Husker from Kansas
Starter
I think it shows that Nebraska is a lot more relevant nationally than most of us think/believe.
AFhusker
Banned
And the same Tennessee who hasn't beaten a good team convincingly all year either. They are going into OT or winning by hail mary's every week. But they will be exposed the next two weeks @ A&M and vs Alabama.
I could stomach ascending to the top 10 with a couple more wins, headed into Madison, whether deserved or not. I just don't want to see us get blown out, as we have in past visits. I'd be fine with a close loss to Wisconsin, likely loss the following week... then winning out. That would be a fine improvement on last season.
Landlord
Banned
I think it just shows the weirdly flawed nature of polls. It's not really a test of "Who do I think the best 25 teams are", at least not for the first 7-8 weeks, it's more like, "Who has screwed up the least? Well let's keep moving them up."
People are so quick to be critical about everyone else's resumé and bad wins or whatever, but look at the Sagarin ratings of our 5 games so far - 132, 108, 42, 53, 78.
We haven't accomplished anything other than not royally screwing up yet. Do not mistake this for pessimism. I'm loving the team, the season, being undefeated and enjoying the ride, but you've gotta be smokin' something pretty dank to think we're really the 12th best team in the country, imo.
5-0 is its own argument, regardless of who, and when and where. There are a thousand ways NOT to be 5-0 right now, but those scenarios haven't happened.
People watch Armstrong nonchalantly run through defenses for 15 yards and a first down and probably value that more than those of us who have seen it for the last four years. Now add the receiver corps and a resurgent running game (and by that I definitely include an offensive line that doesn't blow up every other drive with a penalty and can push a quarterback sneak into the secondary). Last is a defense that turns in a good day's work every outing so far and we see a team that isn't flashy at all...but there is that 5-0 and all wins earned, not given.
They would need some improvement in the offensive consistency department in order to keep that one from getting out of hand