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Oct 6, 2024
8:13:42am

Soupie Grandma Sycamore

It’s fine but others have implications too.

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Soupie

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if you want another example of how much of a joke the rankings are early in the season, an unranked team was favored

FieroCoug All-American

Oct 6, 1:10am

They really need to not rank for at least a few weeks...or just completely throw

Oct 6, 1:13am

Yup. Pre-conceived notions of teams pollute the rankings all season.

YOHONOMOTO

Oct 6, 1:15am

That hurts tv ratings. We all watched the games yesterday rooting for upsets.

Magneto

Oct 6, 7:50am

you wouldn’t have watched at least the end of the vandy game when they’re beating bama? even the most casual fans

FieroCoug

Oct 6, 9:17am

If Bama wasn’t ranked, no I wouldn’t. But when was the last time they weren’t.

Magneto

Oct 6, 9:54am

you’re not a real CFB fan if you wouldn’t watch the best program of all time who just beat a great team was losing to

FieroCoug

Oct 6, 9:56am

They’re only great if a bunch of snobby nerds tell him they’re great.

YOHONOMOTO

Oct 6, 11:03am

They do need to be more willing to make radical changes in early weeks

CasualFan

Oct 6, 7:57am

That would defeat the purpose of the eas coast biased rankings. They WANT it to

jtm0001

Oct 7, 1:56am

Ok, but your example is more about Michigan almost always being overrated,

Japan Coug

Oct 6, 1:25am

Texas A&M is always overrated too

puntersarepeople

Oct 6, 9:08am

And USC

puntersarepeople

Oct 6, 9:24am

And most years Texas and ND are highly over-rated.

Les IsMore

Oct 6, 9:36am

Yes, that’s what I said.

Japan Coug

Oct 6, 11:59am

Do you guys throw out all those names and you don’t even list Utah??? The most overrated of all???

KYU

Oct 6, 7:15pm

there are several teams this applies for and also applies for the sec, big ten, and did for the pac. it’s why the

FieroCoug

Oct 6, 9:14am

I'd like to see 1st poll after first month at least. Too many ramifications that last all season.

Soupie

Oct 6, 1:36am

when does CFP poll come out?

Oct 6, 7:10am

It’s fine but others have implications too.

Soupie

Oct 6, 8:13am

We are back to where we were in the WAC days. Crying about unfair rankings.

DirtyWater

Oct 6, 3:14am

Is there a fan base that doesn’t follow (and occasionally cry about) rankings? It’s normal fan behavior.

Oct 6, 8:08am

this isn’t about BYU at all. just CFB in general.

FieroCoug

Oct 6, 8:29am

I thought he was mocking Florida state?

JohnnyComeLately

Oct 6, 8:58am

I wish rankings previous to week 6 were abolished.

IronPotato

Oct 6, 8:44am

I wish pollsters would stop trying to speculate which is the best team

Oct 6, 9:24am

I wish wishers would quit wishing that their wishes made sense.

Les IsMore

Oct 6, 9:38am

The AP suffers from a huge confirmation bias

Oct 6, 11:22am

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