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LSU ranking vs. Florida St

Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:26 am
Posted by AZTiger7072
Tucson
Member since Oct 2011
2457 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:26 am
How is it that Florida St is ranked 12th with losses to Louisville (blowout) and a 6-2 North Carolina team; and LSU is ranked 19th with losses to an 11th ranked Wisconsin team and to a 15th ranked Auburn team?

Our one common opponent was Ole Miss and we won that game by more points.

What gives?
Posted by lsupride87
Member since Dec 2007
94865 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:27 am to
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What gives?
Voters dont pay attention to shite. The playoff committee does though, and I would imagine we will be ahead of them in that poll
Posted by L S Usetheforce
Member since Jun 2004
22745 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:28 am to
Just win
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
58101 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:32 am to
Our wins so far have been against crap teams. I'm not ready to get much into the poll bitching until we beat a top 20 team
Posted by AZTiger7072
Tucson
Member since Oct 2011
2457 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:40 am to
Florida St wins have come against Ole Miss, Charolette, Miami, Wake and South Florida

Real quality wins there
Posted by Mulat
Avalon Bch, FL
Member since Sep 2010
17517 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:41 am to
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What gives?


Focus on the games we have to play and how we will win them, the rest will take care itself
Posted by thunderbird1100
GSU Eagles fan
Member since Oct 2007
68289 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:44 am to
FSU started slightly higher in the polls than we did, only thing I can tell.

We got DESTROYED for losing to Wisconsin in week 1.

Dropped like 15 spots in both polls.

FSU loses 63-20 and dropped like 10 spots
This post was edited on 10/26/16 at 9:48 am
Posted by TheHat7
Member since Oct 2015
7189 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:45 am to
I thought for sure we would rise to 15-16 range with auburn being around 12-14 range. Both teams playing well and have quality losses so to speak. These rankings are bull shite
Posted by tigertyler
Bogie's
Member since Sep 2016
851 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:46 am to
You shouldn't be worried about our ranking until the final CFP ranking is released
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
202624 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:46 am to
Does it really matter??????
Posted by Arena30
Youngsville
Member since Jul 2015
767 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 9:54 am to
Yeah it's stupid, but all that matters is the playoff committee polls
Posted by epbart
new york city
Member since Mar 2005
2924 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:16 am to
quote:

Our one common opponent was Ole Miss and we won that game by more points.

What gives?


Perception doesn't always matter. In football polls-- which is a very subjective ranking of teams-- perception very much matters.

Florida State started out highly ranked as we did. Their loss to Louisville was ugly and dropped them a good 10 spots, which isn't unreasonable. They're still perceived as being reasonably balanced, and their staff is stable (If Jimbo leaves, won't be till after the season.)

LSU was highly ranked to start and there was talk of a revamped offense and a strong case for a title run. Wisconsin exposed the presumed changes to the offense as completely false and the offense looked inept. Auburn reinforced that opinion. The perception on the back end of that game: there's no way this team will win the SEC or SECw, and will be lucky to be over .500 with that offense... It seemed like we picked up where our losing record last November left off.

Another way of restating the difference in perception might be:
*Fl. St is not quite as good as we thought, but is a good team that might have a shot at a BCS bowl.
*LSU is a talented team with a very flawed offense that will possibly get slaughtered again in November and might not finish .500 in the SEC.

Is this opinion right? Who knows... it's an opinion, and opinions like this always have an asterick... which assumes several 'ifs'. The opinions are already shifting since Orgeron took over, and LSU is making up ground in the polls again. I don't think anyone is counting us quite out yet; and there's the sense that LSU might still run the table. But there's a possibility that they'll run out of steam or defenses will figure out the tweaks to LSU's offense as more game tape becomes available. So, it's not unreasonable that the voters are a little hesitant to assume Bebe's Bandits are the real deal just yet.
Posted by Blanky6715
Dallas, TX
Member since Jul 2014
4377 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:18 am to
It's because of timing.

Both of our loses were to unranked teams at the time of the loss.
Posted by Big Saint
Houston
Member since May 2009
1453 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:24 am to
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LSU ranking vs. Florida St


Why do people give a shite about any of these mid season rankings??

If we win out the rankings will take care of themselves. We are going through a gauntlet schedule that no one else is facing. Playoff committee will respect that.
Posted by TigerinDunbarton
Dunbarton
Member since Sep 2016
1735 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:27 am to
Lol. You are one of the most miserable sobs on this site. ALWAYS negative. Who the fk has fl st beat? Didn't they lose by 50? Didn't they lose to a team sc by at? Ole miss is a pretty good team. Not many teams have quality wins. That was a pretty damb good performance Saturday high.... So gfy
Posted by TigerinDunbarton
Dunbarton
Member since Sep 2016
1735 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:31 am to
Vegas has us 7th favorite to win the nc....I'll take their opinion over some talking head who doesn't even bother to do homework. Beat bama, and LSU will be firmly in the discussion.
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
202624 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 10:39 am to
Cry me a river. LSU beat an Ole Miss team with a horrible rush defense. Southern Miss, Miss St. And Missouri are all garbage this year.
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
14835 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 11:23 am to
LSU was penalized heavily because Wisconsin was unranked. They've turned out way better than people thought. The over-penalization of LSU should have been corrected by now since we have more info on Wisc and AU.
Posted by r2d2
Member since Dec 2006
6842 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 12:09 pm to
Yeah probably LSU should be higher. My only explanation is that both LSU Ls looked real bad at the time and they hit LSU's perception strongly then; they don't any more of course as AU a Wisconsin are good teams.. but voters are too lazy to re asses things now with more info.

Speaking of AU we really need these guys to drop a game at some point. The sooner the better. It’s a hard road but it would suck doing all the work and having to depend on what happens in the Iron Bowl. We’ve been in that situation before and it hasn’t worked.
This post was edited on 10/26/16 at 12:11 pm
Posted by sjmabry
Texas
Member since Aug 2013
18495 posts
Posted on 10/26/16 at 12:23 pm to
They didn't look like dog shite to start the season
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