Re: CFB top ten on Tuesday
To the original poster...
I agree FSU will likely take back over the #1 spot, although I think the gap between 1 and 2 will be razor thin. That one could go either way, but, at the end of the day, it doesn't matter because MSU's remaining schedule is light-years tougher so if they win out they will be a unanimous #1 when it counts (12/7/14).
Note: MSU won't win out. They will lose to Alabama!
I also agree that one or two other one-loss teams that were behind us might end up in front of us this week. To those of you in this thread who have already expressed great displeasure with the thought of getting "jumped" or the thought of being "punished" for being idle Saturday, please bear two things in mind.
#1 - If the committee members are doing it right, then you will see some things that are noticeably different from the AP and coaches polls. You can't apply the old logic we all grew so accustomed to; that certain losses should drop you a certain number of spots, or that certain wins should cause you to gain a certain number of spots, or that the timing of your loss is a factor in some way, etc. What you should see is that they take each new week as a brand new set of data and start over from scratch (which is what AP voters and coaches poll voters also should do and always should have done). If the human polls had always operated like that there would have been more faith in the old systems we have had in the past and we might be using them now instead of a committee. In other words, each week you have to throw out how good you thought a team was last week and take a fresh look at the entire body of work. So a team cannot expect to be ranked in the same spot simply because they were idle (talking about us). If that is the case then there is a bigger issue with the system. Rather what should happen is they should look at our full body of work and compare it to Oregon's and TCUs, etc and simply decide who has the best resume right now. I am comfortable with some movement other than "everyone just slide up together" like they always did, because that means they are at least trying to do their job!
#2 - Most importantly - It doesn't matter where we are ranked now. With Ole Miss having 2 losses, all we have to do is win out and we are in by virtue of winning the SEC, not to mention having a tremendous schedule strength. If we win at LSU, we would have a good chance of "jumping" over some other 1-loss teams because that is another good win. Then if we beat MSU, we would almost certainly be the highest ranked 1-loss team, which means we would probably be #2 right behind FSU. So it simply doesn't matter right now!
As far as where you had Ole Miss with 2 losses, that I have to disagree with. They will be lower. They will be right in there with 2-loss Oklahoma and 2-loss LSU.
