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re: CFN says LSU hosed
Posted on 10/29/14 at 1:42 pm to profwilson
Posted on 10/29/14 at 1:42 pm to profwilson
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but I think his ranking of us at #6 may be a little too generous.
That's much stupider than the #19 ranking.
I really don't get why so many have their panties in a wad over this. I really don't.
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Posted on 10/29/14 at 1:51 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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That's much stupider than the #19 ranking
Yea if the options are #19 and #6 then #19 is absolutely right
I could see LSU ahead of some of the 1-loss teams like a Nebraska who hasn't really beaten anybody. But even some of the "lesser" names like Arizona deserve to be ahead of LSU because they have a big win at Oregon under their belt. Pretty clear, still relatively early on in the process, that the committee ranked in terms of losses with all 1-loss teams given the benefit of the doubt. That'll change soon. I don't see any argument for Oklahoma being ahead of LSU though as the top 2-loss team. ETA: I'd put LSU ahead of Oklahoma, Ohio St, and Nebraska. So I'd guess I'd have them at 16.
This post was edited on 10/29/14 at 1:53 pm
Posted on 10/29/14 at 1:52 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I really don't get why so many have their panties in a wad over this. I really don't.
No one should be upset if the reason they are upset is because they somehow think LSU ought to be playing its way into the plyoff this season.
EVERYONE, and I mean EVERY COLLEGE FOOTBALL FAN, ought to be upset with Ole miss at #4 and LSU at #19 if they are interested in a system that somehow reflects reality.
In order to get those two numbers, you'd have to assume that the committee had to have had Ole Miss between #1 and #3 and LSU much further back. So...the committee just moved Ole Miss between 1 and 3 spots down after losing to a team which had to have been outside of their own Top 25 at the very least. And that's an assumption that LSU got a bump after knocking off the #3 ranked Rebs. In reality, we have no clue what the committee took into account with these rankings.
That makes absolutely no sense. At all.
This playoff thing is going to make actual college football fans (those who own season tickets and/or pull for specific teams rather than passive fans that will watch whoever is on) long for the early days of the BCS once we start getting playoffs that are clearly designed to place teams in based on ratings or match-ups rather than what's actually happened on the field.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 1:57 pm to Y.A. Tittle
quote:no it's not. if Auburn and MSU are both top 5 teams, and UM is a top 10 team, then it follows that a team ranked below Auburn and MSU should lose to both of them, and a team ranked above UM should beat them. It just so happens that there is a team that has lost to Auburn and MSU but has beaten UM... and that team is LSU.
That's much stupider than the #19 ranking.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 2:08 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I really don't get why so many have their panties in a wad over this. I really don't.
I think people are concerned because it's not just the top 4 that matter. Rankings 1-12 are used for placement of teams in the major bowls--which matter for revenue, recruiting, and national perceptions of the program's stature. If LSU wins out or loses more than one of the remaining games, then it's probably irrelevant. But imagine that we lose to Alabama and win the other two (a very plausible scenario). Would we be in the top 12 then? With the current rankings, I think clearly not.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 3:48 pm to Y.A. Tittle
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I really don't get why so many have their panties in a wad over this. I really don't.
I do. We won last week in convincing fashion so they have nothing else to bitch about and there's no opponent this week to over-analyze, so these are the kinds of threads we are stuck with.
Posted on 10/29/14 at 4:34 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Because we're all trying to endure this two week dead zone of LSU football.
Posted on 10/30/14 at 8:52 am to Y.A. Tittle
YA, I'm with you. While it's a "fun study", and interesting to talk about, the vast majority of what is talked about will shake itself out.
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