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RE: Three AAC teams ranked in this week's coaches poll
(11-01-2015 05:16 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  
(11-01-2015 05:10 PM)JHG722 Wrote:  Not saying I agree with it, but wouldn't logic say we're close to top 10 good if we took a top 10 team to the brink?

Isn't that precisely what I said?

Your 'upside' is defined by the team you lost close to. They are top 10, and you are close to them. If you beat #15 Memphis, then you will likely be between 10 and 15, right? Even if you beat them by 50, it will be hard for people to vote you ahead of a team that beat you head up, even if only slightly.

We talk a lot on here about how 'everyone expected' us to lose to Baylor or the WKU or La Tech are also good, but we lost so badly to them that we are defined by the poor teams that we barely beat.

I wasn't trying to be combative, I was just verifying it. In that case, thanks.
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Quote:@Joseph_Duarte

Question asked about 'impressive' 29K turnout for Vandy game. Herman with straight face: 'You thought that was impressive?"
11-02-2015 12:31 PM
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(11-02-2015 12:31 PM)At Ease Wrote:  
Quote:@Joseph_Duarte

Question asked about 'impressive' 29K turnout for Vandy game. Herman with straight face: 'You thought that was impressive?"

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Not AAC but ranked Toledo loses at home to unranked Northern Illinois

Is there a case to be made that NIU, not Boise, has been the premier G5 program of the last 5 years.

they are 5-3 this year with close road losses to Ohio State and BC and (quite disappointingly for them) CMU
11-04-2015 01:04 AM
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Forde's all over memphis right now, and the CFP committee for snubbing them. It is truly amazing how far Memphis has come since their game with us a few short years ago:

Playoff committee shows brand-name bias still in full effect with flawed first rankings
By Pat Forde November 3, 2015 8:40 PM Yahoo Sports

Brand-name bias is alive and well with the College Football Playoff selection committee. This does not qualify as breaking news.

It’s same-as-it-ever-was news in the sport. The traditional powers, the laundry, the big names get exaggerated respect. And the have-nots, the outsiders, the traditional paupers are eternally downgraded.

The CFP committee reinforced that with their first Top 25 Tuesday night by relegating Memphis to No. 13. That’s the same Memphis that is 8-0 and owns a 13-point victory over Mississippi – an Ole Miss team that won at Alabama and that the committee ranked 18th. How Memphis isn’t in the top 10 baffles me.

The only logical explanation is that Memphis is a historical nobody that began the season as a nobody, and thus will remain at least a semi-nobody in comparison to the somebodies from the Power 5 conferences.

The committee ranked Memphis behind five teams with losses. The Tigers are one spot behind Utah, which lost to a USC team that is not in the CFP Top 25. They are two spots behind Stanford, which lost to the No. 21 team, Northwestern, and beat a UCLA team that is ranked five spots behind Ole Miss.

Memphis is four spots behind Iowa, which beat Northwestern and nobody else of consequence. The Tigers are five spots behind TCU, six spots behind Michigan State and seven spots behind Baylor – all of which are a collective 1-0 against the committee’s Top 25 (counting Michigan State's fluke win over Michigan).

Memphis is eight spots behind Notre Dame, which has a loss on its record (No. 1 Clemson) and one win over the Top 25, No. 22 Temple. It is nine spots behind Alabama, which lost to the same Ole Miss team Memphis beat, and which has one victory over a Top 25 team – Texas A&M, which is ranked one spot behind Mississippi. And Memphis is 10 spots behind an Ohio State team that is 0-0 against the Top 25.

What do bluebloods Notre Dame, Alabama and Ohio State have that Memphis doesn’t? Nothing right now, yet everything in perpetuity – more money, more fans, better conference affiliation and exaggerated clout with a committee that is supposed to see beyond laundry.

(Looking at one-loss Alabama at No. 4 and Iowa at No. 9, I’m wondering whether the committee may have overvalued victories against a certain unranked team from the upper midwest. Take a bow, Wisconsin athletic director and committee member Barry Alvarez.)

So there you have it, Memphis. If you thought you were going to get a fair, blind-résumé shot at this thing, you were wrong. And the cynics who never believed Memphis would get a fair shake are nodding knowingly right now.

The Tigers do have the potential to move up with three remaining games against teams currently in the CFP Top 25. They play at No. 25 Houston on Nov. 14, at No. 22 Temple on Nov. 21, and could face Temple again in the American Athletic Conference championship game.

But here’s a strong likelihood: if Memphis wins those games it will knock Temple and Houston out of the rankings faster than a vagrant being booted from a country club. It’s a handy Catch-22 for the establishment to use to discount the non-establishment.

click the link for the full article and the video of Forde telling his perspective.
11-05-2015 05:48 PM
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Not worth a new thread but I saw that Nate Silver has a cumulate 8% chance of one of the AAC teams making the playoff.
Memphis at 6% and UH at 2% (Temple also on the chart but below 1%)

Interesting read for us stat geeks, AAC fans, AAC haters, football geeks, and CFP committee watchers:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/here...ions-work/

Also interesting to read how blindsided they were by the committee's snub of TCU last year...
11-06-2015 02:16 PM
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