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Nov 5, 2019
2:11:09pm

IndepYndent All-American

Personally I think the rankings are garbage but most teams haven't even beaten a

ranked team. My point is BYU isn't holding onto to that one win like years past.

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IndepYndent

Bio page: IndepYndent
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POLL: Would a 9-4 BYU team finish ranked in any final polls?

mjmill

11/5/19 1:04pm

There would have been an outside chance if

11/5/19 1:06pm

Need to blow out the next 4 teams. And then a good showing in the bowl game.

Benfica1

11/5/19 1:08pm

Last year four teams were ranked at 9-4

kudzucoug

11/5/19 1:08pm

If BYU won their last 5 games by an average of 50 ppg and if everyone else in the nation suddenly

Indy Coug

11/5/19 1:12pm

And the bowl win was over 'Bama

CopperLix

11/5/19 1:16pm

Exactly, there is a chance.

Benfica1

11/5/19 1:53pm

Absolutely

IndepYndent

11/5/19 1:14pm

Totally agree. If Boise ends the year ranked and we beat a top 20 and 11-1 SDSU

bigbossbyu

11/5/19 1:16pm

We didn’t finish ranked in 2015 or 2016 despite winning 9 games. I think 10 wins is the minimum to get ranked

DieHarder

11/5/19 1:17pm

We’d finish with 3 top 25 wins on the year. That’s pretty dang good. When’s the

bigbossbyu

11/5/19 1:17pm

The pollsters look at where our wins finish, not where they were when we beat them. This team might be better than the

DieHarder

11/5/19 1:23pm

BYU is different now. Pollsters will remember Tennessee, USC, and Boise

IndepYndent

11/5/19 1:28pm

You don’t really know that. At the end of the year against “AP top 25 teams”

bigbossbyu

11/5/19 1:29pm

Problem is that voters are usually linked to conferences and vote for teams in

Benfica1

11/5/19 1:58pm

Do they get a lot of respect? There are 10 teams with same or worse record that

BlueFrog

11/5/19 1:59pm

Depends on how our opponents finish up

tevye

11/5/19 1:17pm

To me, it's highly dependent on the quality of the bowl opponent

The Chelsea Dagger

11/5/19 1:34pm

No. SOS will be too low

BlueFrog

11/5/19 1:42pm

It's #26 even with our November crap games

IndepYndent

11/5/19 1:46pm

it only drops to 26? where are you calculating this?

BlueFrog

11/5/19 1:50pm

Personally I think the rankings are garbage but most teams haven't even beaten a

IndepYndent

11/5/19 2:11pm

personal opinion aside, where are you seeing #26?

BlueFrog

11/5/19 2:22pm

Highly doubt it and it doesn't matter

cambo

11/5/19 2:21pm

It totally matters. Finishing ranked with the majority of

bigbossbyu

11/5/19 2:41pm

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