(09-05-2017 11:02 PM)HogDawg Wrote: (09-05-2017 10:57 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote: (09-05-2017 10:54 PM)HogDawg Wrote: (09-05-2017 05:03 PM)MTPiKapp Wrote: (09-05-2017 03:32 PM)wkuhilltopperfan Wrote:
Thoughtful response. If I had a vote, I wouldn't vote for anyone in this conference based on week 1.
As opposed to voting for who else instead?
Actual top 25 teams?
Such as? LOL!
The point is, this time of year you don't really know who's "Top 25" worthy yet. Losses last weekend by Texas, Baylor, TX A&M, etc....proved this point. At this point, WKU is as good a choice for Top 25 as any of those schools.
"LOL" all you want, if you're asking me to view all teams as equals prior to week 1, then you're right, but in that case voting at all for
at least the first month of the season is ******* pointless.
But if if you're asking me to make an educated guess on the 25 best teams based on all available information, I'm going to look at how you finished last season to help fill the void in information after week 1.
To wit, of the 25 teams in the final AP poll of 2015, 20 of them were in the 2016 preseason top 25, of those 20, 13 also finished 2016 in the top 25.
Of the five teams that were in the 2015 final top 25 that were not in the 2016 preseason top 25(Utah, Navy, Wisconsin, WKU, Northwestern) all five of them were "recieving votes" in the 2016 preaeason poll.
Of the five teams that were in the the 2016 preseason top 25 that were not in the 2015 final rankings(Washington, UCLA, UGA, Louisville, USC) three of them made that the 2016 final poll.
Of the 30 teams that were in one or both of the 2015 final poll and the 2016 preseason poll, 16 of them were in the 2016 final poll(and four more finished 2016 recieving votes)
You can pretend that every team is a blank slate at the start of the season and argue that Bama's 17 point victory over FSU is no better than Washington's 16 point victory Rutgers, because "hey, how do we really know who's top 25 at the start of the season, right?" but I think we all know the truth there.