Dropping in the polls - LSU vs Ohio St.

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For reference, LSU dropped from 5 to 21 in AP poll after loss to Wisconsin

The legacy of the Les Miles era is if you gain less than 250 yards and fail to get 70 in the first half, people will justifiably think you suck.

More volitility in those early polls. Smaller sampling size of games.

It's not that hard to figure out. LSU lost opening game and looked like shite against an inferior team and clearly our preseason ranking was bs. Ohio state blew a game at the end but has been a solid team this year

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How does LSU fall off of the map with a loss to WIS when no one knew how good they were and Ohio St. drops 6 spots off of a loss to a proven, non ranked Penn St. team?

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It's hard to justify a winless team ranked high.

LSU dropped to #21 after that loss. LSU was ranked behind 3 other 0-1 programs: Oklahoma, Notre Dame, and Ole Miss.

Oklahoma lost to #6 Houston, so it makes sense they'd be ahead of us
Ole Miss lost to #4 FSU, so it makes sense they'd be ahead of us
LSU lost to unranked Wisconsin, so it makes sense we'd be below other 0-1 teams
The only question mark is ND, who lost to unranked Texas


The early polls are just much more volatile considering there is less to go off of


Not to mention we fired our coach over the Wisconsin (and Auburn) losses. I mean, I don't see how you can be outraged that the polls saw the writing on the wall with our program? We as a fanbase certainly did

because literally half of teams in the country was still undefeated when we lost to Wisconsin. and the few one loss teams ranked above us lost close games to highly ranked teams.

and by this deep in the season, Ohio St has a better resume than the teams behind them.