C1ncy4Life
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RE: College Football Week 5
(10-01-2019 06:43 AM)eroc Wrote: (09-30-2019 10:23 PM)C1ncy4Life Wrote: (09-30-2019 08:05 PM)eroc Wrote: (09-30-2019 05:19 PM)C1ncy4Life Wrote: (09-29-2019 07:45 PM)eroc Wrote: Let me clarify. When i say the b10 is overrated i mean that pollsters have inflated the quality of their members. Therefore, this isn't about whether i would take any other conference over the b10. Out of curiosity, if Nebraska is good team what does that make Illinois in your opinion?
Illinois is average at best, but definitely not good. I’m not going to put a lot of stock in a team coming close at home.
A lot of people picked Nebraska to win the B10 West this year in the preseason. Seemed a bit far fetched to me, but they are a good team, with some solid young players. My guess is they will struggle some on the road and against very good-elite teams, which is what we’ve pretty much seen from them this year.
As far as pollsters inflating B10 teams, isn’t that what they do with all P5 teams in general outside the elite teams?
...in that the top 25 is comprised almost exclusively of p5 teams and ND, i reckon the answer is yes? 
Right, so I don’t get the point in singling out the B10, when it’s really the case for all of the Power conferences. Big 10 is one of the less egregious (behind the SEC, IMO). The pollsters keep trying to rank different, questionable P12 teams to have them lose the very next week.
Because more so then most conferences they tend to get more teams that are not top 25 caliber into the top 25, and the top 25 caliber teams that they do have tend to be overrated in terms of their ranking. We obviously disagree about this and you have to look no further then our perspectives on Nebraska to see that so i don't see this debate going much further. Honestly, until there is a broader sample size to allow for a more accurate assessment of conference strength relative to one another to even have a national ranking seems somewhat silly but these are the games we play.
Yea, I disagree with that when we have 4 Pac 12 teams currently ranked and I believe we’ve had 7 Pac 12 teams ranked this year. The pollsters are trying to prop up each Power conference and the B10 is far from the most egregious.
Does the B10 enjoy inflated polling numbers? Sure, but so does all P5 conferences outside maybe the SEC, though I’d argue they do as well towards the bottom of the Top 25 most years.
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2019 12:43 PM by C1ncy4Life.)
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College Football Week 5
