Fuzzy
All-Conference
Yea, i looked at when the season kicked off and we werent even ranked in their little poll.
Nebraska #6 in the FoxSports power rankings
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Fuzzy
All-Conference
They seem to do that a lot. Lazy bastards, i want that job.
Get paid $60,000 a year to copy and paste.
Spooky Tooth
Special Teams Player
Knapp, you know I have your back, but let's play devil's advocate.
If reality had anything to do with polls, why is ND perennially ranked higher than they deserve?
Don't get me wrong, I fully agree NU needs to put the question out of doubt before it deserves to be ranked higher. But using the same logic, ND needs to sit in the sewer until it proves it can run with the big dogs.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
You're exactly right, and that challenges the credibility of most any poll out there. Mississippi was the #6 team in the land, but they got manhandled by an unranked South Carolina team. The polls are a crock, but because they are a crock does not mean that Nebraska should be ranked in the top ten now.
BigRedPowerWagon
Banned
Correct me if im wrong but rankings are EVERYTHING. If you think wrong your silly. Let me explain. Rankings give us the ups and downs of football teams. If were not ranked in the top 5, how can we get intoa good bowl game. I mean sugar and gator bowls are nice, but dont we want the BCS bowls. And sadly those rely on rankings. We cant get into the championship games with a 23 ranking.
junior4949
All-American
I'm going to go out on a limb here, but the only way Nebraska makes it to a BCS bowl this year is to win the Big 12 Championship game.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Just because they are everything (I agree with you) doesn't mean they aren't flawed.
husker B-rent
All-Conference
doesnt matter if they are flawed. even the final BCS poll is flawed every season. however, that is how you make a good bowl game no matter how you slice it! i personally would rather start the season ranked number 1 than number 119! polls are opinions and some of you freak out because these guys are showing us too much respect!
their bad, they must be wrong because you say they are wrong!
Paul in WI
Starter
Let me ask this: Don't those other teams have to prove something--or is it just Nebraska? I've seen an awful lot of teams this year that have proven absolutely nothing. Let's face it: The polls are heavily weighted towards recent tradition. Teams get stuck way up in the Top 10 based upon how they typically do or (in the case of ND) how the talking heads WANT them to do. It doesn't mean that they belong there. Take USC for example. They flat out suck this year, but they were given a high ranking because they're USC. Then a nobody comes in (Washington) and beats a grossly-overranked USC squad and they call it a huge program-defining win. pfft.... Now USC is going to play Cal (another team that was exposed as being terribly overranked). The talking heads have already got it as the premiere matchup that will vault USC back into the top 10. It is really all just a bunch of BS right now.......I've never seen such homerism in the polls as this year, to tell you the truth (see Miami and the talking heads insistence on talking them back in the Top 10 after the VT loss). Just don't pay attention to it and win the rest of the games. They can't deny NU then.
knapplc
International Man of Mystery
Hold on there, Cowboy! I'm ranting more against the polls in general, not the Huskers. The whole thing is a crapshoot, Nebraska's ranking included.
WCHusker
Banned
Wrong-At least at this point in the season.
When the time comes, we'll be where we should be or at least very close to it.
The polls really mean NOTHING right now(unless you are a Boise St.).
nebraskapit
Four-Star Recruit
Wouldn't it be a blast to be able to actually vote in a nationally known poll and get to be the one driving everyone else insane?
hack
All-Conference
point of order, fox sports: those just aren't pelini's standards, those are Nebraska's standards.
carry on!