(06-10-2021 02:29 AM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote: With 130 teams, being in the bottom quartile means being roughly 100 and below. 75th is not that far below being among the top half of FBS. So, I'm unclear as to above which bar you want Rice to clear.
Using my rating system, here are how many C-USA teams were above 75/75-99:
2020: 2/2
2019: 4/3
2018: 4/4
2017: 3/6
2016: 4/2
I just pulled up a few random 'all rankings'for 2019... just because it was a 'real' year.... I don't care enough to look deeper than that... but as follows
Athlon had 7 CUSA teams (including us) ranked worse then #110.
ESPN had 5 in the bottom 10 (or receiving votes in the bottom 10, NOT including us)
I'm not making up what I've seen, so I know that I've seen NUMEROUS CUSA teams consistently ranked north of 100. I think I've commented numerous times when I've looked at the schedule and noticed that we could be the 80th or 90th best team in the country according to most polls, and be 'competing for the conference championship'.... much less having a winning record.
I can probably go back and find my posts for a number of years where I say, we could be ranked north of 100 and if we simply beat teams ON OUR SCHEDULE ranked below us, we're in a bowl game.
No offense to your rankings which I'm sure are well thought out... but you fairly consistently (in terms of rankings AND commentary about our performance) seem to have a higher regard for our performance than every other ranking system. While that may be bias in their systems and not in yours, I'm speaking of the consensus, and using that as the benchmark... while you seem to be essentially arguing that we're really better than they think. Well, to me, you're better when you beat better teams... and we only rarely do that.