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Rankings are a joke so far

Posted on 9/10/17 at 6:54 pm
Posted by CatsGoneWild
Pigeon forge, Tennessee
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 6:54 pm
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Osu only drops to 8 after getting whipped at home. Lol
Posted by goldenbadger08
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 6:55 pm to
It's why pre-season polls are the worst. Ohio State has not looked like a top 10 team at all.

Rankings would be so much better if there were no preseason polls.
Posted by CatsGoneWild
Pigeon forge, Tennessee
Member since Jan 2008
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:01 pm to
3 of the Big 10 teams in the top 10 shouldn't be in there.
Posted by SprintFun
Columbus, OH
Member since Dec 2007
45803 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:03 pm to
Shocking that you would make a post about OSU.
Posted by Ibleedblackandgold
Back in Louisiana where I belong
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:27 pm to
Ohio State does not belong in the top 10 at all. I guarantee they will lose 1 to 2 more games before seasons end.
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:31 pm to
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Rankings would be so much better if there were no preseason polls.



They're still a top ten team because the same people who voted this week thought they were a top ten team at the beginning of the year. So they're going to keep them there so that their prophecy is guaranteed to be fulfilled. You see, the voters are always right!
Posted by Ostrich
Alexandria, VA
Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:32 pm to
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Osu only drops to 8 after getting whipped at home. Lol


By the team that's ranked #2
Posted by SprintFun
Columbus, OH
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 7:40 pm to
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Ohio State does not belong in the top 10 at all.


I agree

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I guarantee they will lose 1 to 2 more games before seasons end.



After the way the season started I'd be ok with only one more loss...
Posted by The Quiet One
Former United States
Member since Oct 2013
11910 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 8:18 pm to
Wut? If OSU only loses 1 or 2 more games, they'll be a top 10 team. 10-2 is a guarantee of a top 10 ranking for a P5 team.
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 8:43 pm to
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Wut? If OSU only loses 1 or 2 more games, they'll be a top 10 team. 10-2 is a guarantee of a top 10 ranking for a P5 team.



But here's the problem. Ohio State finishes 10-2 but began with a #2 ranking. They will stay in the top ten the entire year.

Meanwhile (hypothetically), a team like Minnesota finishes 10-2 as well, but they weren't ranked in the preseason. They won't even be ranked until a month or so into the season, and they'll be lucky to break the top ten by the end of the year.

Because of that, Ohio State gets a New Years Six invite and they play in the Rose Bowl because they're Ohio State and they've been a top ten team all year. And Minnesota goes to the Alamo Bowl because who the Hell is Minnesota?
Posted by VABuckeye
Naples, FL
Member since Dec 2007
36184 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:11 pm to
As it should be. Haves and have nots.

Joke before the downvots pour in.
Posted by Caplewood
Atlanta
Member since Jun 2010
39212 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:20 pm to
You truly believe that though, just admit it you little frick....
Posted by Roaring Cowboy
MoWata
Member since Aug 2017
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:41 pm to
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But here's the problem. Ohio State finishes 10-2 but began with a #2 ranking. They will stay in the top ten the entire year. Meanwhile (hypothetically), a team like Minnesota finishes 10-2 as well, but they weren't ranked in the preseason. They won't even be ranked until a month or so into the season, and they'll be lucky to break the top ten by the end of the year. Because of that, Ohio State gets a New Years Six invite and they play in the Rose Bowl because they're Ohio State and they've been a top ten team all year. And Minnesota goes to the Alamo Bowl because who the Hell is Minnesota?


This.
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Member since Nov 2015
36679 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:44 pm to
Osu only drops to 8 after getting whipped at home. Lol

Teams used to drop only a mandatory 6 spots in the 80's and 90's - we just bitch more these days.

Yeah...it matters where you start preseason, it always has.

FSU would lose to Miami and drop to #3...in week 2! Everyone else was like frick, how we going to leap-frog this 1-loss mother-fricker even though we are undefeated????

FSU was like a roadblock. They'd lose to Miami, stay right there. FSU loses to Notre Dame in week 10 in 1993! They only drop to #2. Those frickers would never drop out of the Top 5...no matter when and how they lost (and they were unanimous preseason #1 in 1993 - so you basically had to kill them three times to knock them out of the Top 5.)

They end up winning the National Title over an 11-1 Notre Dame team that beat them.
This post was edited on 9/10/17 at 10:51 pm
Posted by castorinho
13623 posts
Member since Nov 2010
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Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:46 pm to
Why do people, year after year (especially since the cfb playoffs started), keep getting worked up about these irrelevant rankings?
Posted by DisplacedBuckeye
Member since Dec 2013
73988 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:50 pm to


The melt that keeps on giving the whole year.
Posted by lsutigers1992
Member since Mar 2006
25317 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:57 pm to
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Why do people, year after year (especially since the cfb playoffs started), keep getting worked up about these irrelevant rankings?



Because as I said, it determines whether you play in the New Years Six and get tons of revenue and exposure, or play a bowl game in Orlando on Wednesday morning on ESPN2.

Teams like Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame and USC have enough advantages as it is. The preseason poll guarantees them one more, because if they meet the minimum ranking requirements, they'll jump the line and get one of those bowl games and perpetuate the cycle.
Posted by Roaring Cowboy
MoWata
Member since Aug 2017
627 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 10:59 pm to
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Why do people, year after year (especially since the cfb playoffs started), keep getting worked up about these irrelevant rankings?


They aren't irreverent. The committee is full of shite if they say these polls and big time storied programs don't have a say in their polls
Posted by castorinho
13623 posts
Member since Nov 2010
83424 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 11:13 pm to
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The committee is full of shite if they say these polls
don't have a say in their polls


if you have paid attention last year, there was a difference between the polls. In fact the opposite happened, these polls tried to mirror the CFP once those were released

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big time storied programs don't have a say in their polls
This would happen with or without the polls
Posted by pvilleguru
Member since Jun 2009
60453 posts
Posted on 9/10/17 at 11:29 pm to
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Osu only drops to 8 after getting whipped at home

Why is that a joke?
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