That's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing. BYU fans love positive BYU coverage and

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Oct 7, 2024
10:14:12am

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That's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing. BYU fans love positive BYU coverage and

...national writers love to have lots of fan engagement (clicks, re-tweets, likes, comments, etc.)

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Are people putting too much emphasis on Strength of Record?

Abe Froman

9:14am

Or not enough. That really is what the rankings should be, based on resume

RGGeemer

9:17am

I'd say not enough!

Plato

9:17am

BYU has been behind their opponent in Net Success Rate in 3 of their games this year

darkcoug

9:19am

Unless we can figure out how to win without defensive and ST scores

Plato

9:21am

Like we did at SMU?

Abe Froman

9:25am

No. With offense

Plato

9:28am

Like we did at SMU.

Abe Froman

9:29am

All of BYU’s points in that game were scored by the offense, Plato.

Abe Froman

9:38am

Of course. All 18 points. And our defense definitely won that game.

Plato

9:40am

Combined with the offense, yeah!

RGGeemer

9:41am

That isn’t what you said: You’re trying to move the goalposts now.

Abe Froman

9:43am

You got me. The point Iwas so ineptly making was that we are clearly not

Plato

9:51am

I could only respond to the point you made, not the point you wish you had made.

Abe Froman

10:00am

In fact, 18 points would have been enough in 4 out of our 5 wins.

The Dark Knight

9:51am

More likely we game plan the higher-risk-higher-reward

Brandoblueblood

11:05am

BYU fans emphasize SoR because it makes BYU look good. If it didn't, we wouldn't

9:32am

Okay, but national sports writers who are emphasizing it aren’t BYU fans.

Abe Froman

9:39am

That's sort of a chicken-and-egg thing. BYU fans love positive BYU coverage and

10:14am

All fanbases love positive coverage of their teams, and nat'l writers want their

Abe Froman

11:35am

Then the answer is Yes, people are emphasizing it too much.

12:17pm

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