The good news: BYU is ranked #35 and has every reason to believe it will win the rest of the season given the rankings of our future opponents:
#51: U St
#59: Missouri
#103: San Jose St
#129: Fresno St
The bad news: Based on today's rankings, BYU has accomplished very little this year. BYU's best victory was against #28 Boise St. but its other victories were against low level teams:
#54: Nebraska: big name but not a good team
#57: Cinn: good in basketball sometimes
#77: E Caro: where's the guy that argued with me that E Caro is a solid opponent?
#93: UConn: see Cinn
#243: Wagner - out of 254 teams listed
BYU lost to the two teams with the highest rankings: Mich (#13) and UCLA (#26).
I guess we all view this differently. I view a 10-2 season in which we didn't beat a single ranked opponent as a disappointment. You can't blame the team for a lack of ranked opponents. But so much for the idea that this was BYU's most difficult schedule in its history. Some of you love these kinds of seasons and you'll say the games were exciting and many teams would kill for 10-2. But if you are 0-2 against two teams that averaged #20 and you are 10-0 against ten teams that averaged #90 (73 without Wagner), it's hard to say BYU is really progressing. If BYU is fortunate, teams ranked in the 20s and 30s will continue to cannibalize each other and BYU sneaks into the top 25.