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05-13-2008, 07:40 PM
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correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the "top 25" a scale of where they are now not where they will be at the end of the season? Which is why I hate when they bring schedule into these things. If you rank the teams it should be based on talent, intangables, coaching, chemestry, etc. otherwise put Boise St or Hawaii up in the top 5 every year.
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They're a better team, but they're ranked lower because they have a harder schedule. Great logic if you ask me.
That being said, I'm still glad we're number one in the poll. Their stupidity isn't really doing too much to us here. Haha
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05-13-2008, 07:59 PM
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The ridiculous part is that these writers puts tOSU there, then criticize the team with any chance. I think this year though that some writers may understand last year was an anomaly in cfb and come around some, and a road win at USC will help the image.
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05-13-2008, 08:18 PM
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Georgia might be more explosive and talented than Ohio State, but the Bulldogs' schedule is much tougher.
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Using ESPN's own rankings system, whatever it may be, Georgia's schedule is indeed tougher....
Plays #5 Florida, # 10 Auburn #12 LSU #13 ASU and #15 Tennessee
Ohio State plays the "much" weaker schedule of
#4 USC
#16 Illinois
#18 Wisconsin
#24 Michigan State
#25 Penn State
Friggin idiots. I don't know why anyone would take them seriously. Using their own rankings, I'm hard pressed to find the "MUCH" here... I could live with "Georgia plays a tougher schedule than Ohio State" because at least the remark is internally consistent. Instead, we're left to assume spots 16 - 25 of the poll are far and away worse than 10 - 15. Is Auburn better than Penn State? Sure. But, I'm not sure they're all that much better than Illinois...
I digress... my real problem with this "poll" is that having Penn State ranked at all is proof positive they're just mailing this one in.
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05-13-2008, 08:26 PM
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correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the "top 25" a scale of where they are now not where they will be at the end of the season?
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That's the way a preseason poll SHOULD be voted on, but the pundits have turned the preseason poll into personal guesses as to what the final poll will look like.
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05-13-2008, 08:42 PM
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That's the way a preseason poll SHOULD be voted on, but the pundits have turned the preseason poll into personal guesses as to what the final poll will look like.
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Which, of course, they aren't biased towards having their actual final poll look like.... "See how right I was? I told you Team X was #5 in APRIL"
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05-13-2008, 09:04 PM
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Phil Steele's magazine is available next month. By far the most accurate and in depth analysis of college football I have seen.
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