It's a combination really. Is a 9-3 season in the MW better than an 8-4 season

Nov 19, 2019
12:02:29pm

cougaman All-American

in the SEC? No. The voters use their own criteria for how to judge which team is better, but in reality, it's which teams season they think is more deserving of the vote.

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If BYU beat USF and Toledo, they'd likely be ranked in the AP. But they clearly aren't one of the best 25 teams

Indy Coug Loquacious Lummox

11/19/19 11:56am

Top 25 is really not the 25 best teams. It's the 25 team's with the best season.

cougaman

11/19/19 11:58am

Well, it really should be the best 25 teams. Otherwise, why not just get a bunch of W-L records in a spreadsheet

Indy Coug

11/19/19 11:59am

Except people don't approach them with that logic. They use simple logic:

mudpupper

11/19/19 12:00pm

It's a combination really. Is a 9-3 season in the MW better than an 8-4 season

cougaman

11/19/19 12:02pm

Losing and winning matter more than the overall quality of the team.

shimmy

11/19/19 12:02pm

Using that logic you can essentially just rank teams based on recruiting classes

kimdaddy35

11/19/19 12:09pm

No, you rank them on how they actually perform. Wins and losses are too binary and there's

Indy Coug

11/19/19 12:15pm

So who should be #1 the S&P #1 team or the National Champ? Or if you want to back off that a bit

shimmy

11/19/19 12:37pm

So you are in the beat them 77-0 to prove how good you are crowd

kimdaddy35

11/19/19 12:55pm

Yep. People keep thinking rankings are that. They measure win streaks.

mudpupper

11/19/19 11:59am

It would be interesting to see how much of a bump we'd get in Massey composite

Coop

11/19/19 12:10pm

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