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RE: The AP should be ashamed of themselves
(11-06-2017 01:39 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:27 PM)sfink16 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 01:09 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 12:20 PM)geosnooker2000 Wrote:  
(11-06-2017 10:29 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  How is UCF undervalued in the polls? UCF has beaten one pretty good team, Memphis. Memphis themselves haven't beaten any good teams. So there's not much linking UCF to wins over good teams this year.

Houston isn't a good team? Navy isn't a good team?

Nobody at any P5 is going to be impressed by wins over Houston and Navy. That's just reality, and that's who we are competing with for ranking position.

Add it all up, and UCF's strength of schedule is 92 according to Sagarin. That's pretty darn low.

Should anyone be impressed by Alabama's win over overrated LSU? After all, Alabama scored the exact same number of point against LSU as Troy did, 24 points. Both beat that weakling LSU. See how transference doesn't always equate to reality? What makes LSU, Alabama's top win so far this year, any better than UCF beating Houston or Memphis?

Who is saying Alabama beating LSU is better than UCF beating Memphis? Memphis is ranked higher than LSU by everybody.

As for reality, analogies have to make sense. Nobody seriously doubts that Alabama is one of the 5-6 best teams in the country. They don't need to have great wins because they have a pedigree built up over time, such as making the national title game the last two years.

For a school like UCF that has no such track record, then yes, the standards of evidence are going to be stricter.

LSU was ranked higher than Memphis at the time of the LSU/Alabama game. That is one of the neat little tricks the pollsters like to pull. Alabama has a crap schedule thus far? No problem. We'll just take one of their upcoming opponents in-conference, and rank them so Alabammmmer can have a win over a ranked team.

Of course after Alabama beat them - LSU lost + Memphis won, so it's not hard to see we jumped them. But amazingly, LSU STILL hangs on to a ranking after 3 losses. Look for them to be still ranked at the end of the season even though they have a crap record, and all for Alabammmmmer's sake.
11-06-2017 02:56 PM
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