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Originally Posted by MiamiRedHawks
buckeyenut, i absolutely disagree with you on miami and marshall and their top ten rankings. its much easier to stay up in the rankings when you start out the season in the top 10.. but to climb there from out of nowhere is an accomplishment.
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Worthy of a top 10 ranking? Hardly. Who did you beat? Nobody. Good three point effort against Iowa though. I'd argue it's just as easy to climb up the rankings by beating a bunch of nobodies while all the good teams from the Big Ten, SEC, Big XII are forced to play each other and knock each other off forcing the voters to move miami up by default simply because they have fewer losses.
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Originally Posted by MiamiRedHawks
in 2002 there were only 2-3 big ten teams who would've been favored vs. miami by the end of the year ( osu, iowa, and michigan). they were certainly worthy of top 10 in my opinion, and obviously of the nat'l media, bcs poll, and coaches poll (11th I believe). to completely discredit all of those?? i think that's a bit reckless. |
I have no problem discrediting the polls, just like any mac fan. We always hear how dumb the polls are from you guys because they don't give the mid-majors any respect, but of course when they give a mac team a high ranking then it's the be all end all. By admitting those three teams would beat miami also proves my point because if you put miami in the Big Ten, there's three losses right there and you're no where near the top 10, thus proving the only reason you were in the top 10 was because of your weak mac schedule.(I just realized weak mac schedule is kind of redundent, but I digress)
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Originally Posted by MiamiRedHawks
its okay to give credit to good teams from the mac, buckeyenut!  is that your handle on jjhuddle too? |
It's only okay when it's warrented. The next time a team from the mac does something that makes me stand up and take note will be the first.
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Originally Posted by MiamiRedHawks
btw, akron won the mac east right now due to a ridiculous tiebreaker (crossover opponents stength of schedule). miami beat akron at home 51-23.
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I don't care how you decide your champion, obviously miami wasn't that much better if it had to come to a tiebreaker. How come miami couldn't take care of niu who akron beat twice? Didn't miami only have seven wins themselves, so what's the difference, it still looks terrible when your conference champion has that many losses and let's face it miami wasn't a very good team last year anyway. I'd suggest next time don't lose at home to cmu and get run off your own field by bowling green and you won't have to worry about tiebreakers.