After all of the noise I had to put up with Clemson fans, this is poetic justice and they are in the process of a complete come apart......
ESPN FPI Rankings
ESPN FPI Rankings
.It's poetic just because we beat them to me. These rankings have hardly meant a lot in the scheme of things.
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I think it's somewhat strange that OK would be ahead of them, considering they had lost to Clemson. Oh well, as Bama fans, we've seen stranger rankings..
Agree, imo, the best two teams played in the NC and Clemson was the best team we faced all year. And #5 is nothing to sniff about.
.I think it's somewhat strange that OK would be ahead of them, considering they had lost to Clemson. Oh well, as Bama fans, we've seen stranger rankings.
Roll Tide! National Champs...again!
I couldn't care less about the rankings, but their ranking is priceless to me especially being below Ok and Ole Miss. I keep hearing the should've,would've, could've every day. You realize it is all a conspiracy don't you?It's poetic just because we beat them to me. These rankings have hardly meant a lot in the scheme of things.
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lol I agree. It is fun to look at and it does have some merit.I couldn't care less about the rankings, but their ranking is priceless to me especially being below Ok and Ole Miss. I keep hearing the should've,would've, could've every day. You realize it is all a conspiracy don't you?
FPI just isn't that great. Football Outsiders F+ rankings are my preferred "advanced analytic" for college football.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fplus
1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Ohio State
4. Oklahoma
5. Ole Miss
6. Stanford
7. Notre Dame
8. Michigan
9. Michigan State
10. LSU
To be real, Ole Miss was very much that caliber of team this year but they no-showed two games and got out-played in a wild game against a hot team. And that is how you have a team that should have went 12-1 and in the playoffs end up actually going 10-3. Sometimes that championship pedigree gets overrated but years like what Ole Miss had this year kinda goes to show there is something to it on occasion.
.Florida way, WAY outstripped their potential by getting to 10 wins in the regular season. I thought it was more on Treon in the season...as the reason why they were declining in performance by the week seemingly. And to be sure, he was not making great throws but his best two games were his first two starts. In retrospect, I think what really happened is that teams started scouting out the ways to get at their weaknesses better as the season wore on. They had OL issues and you could kinda see it against us...Treon Harris had no hope to be successful even if he possessed DeShaun Watson talent.
I've always wondered why they seem to artificially inflate the big12-2. Are they just trying to keep them relevant, or do they actually believe those teams play great football while largely ignoring defense, or do they just want college football to evolve into only high scoring games because they think more people like it so their ratings will increase?ESPN has always been absurdly high on the Big-12. No surprise they found a way to make their metrics love the Big-12 too.
Bless their little hearts. When you don't have The Trophy you must look for some stat or other to prove your smack talk was for real.After all of the noise I had to put up with Clemson fans, this is poetic justice and they are in the process of a complete come apart......
ESPN FPI Rankings
That guy is special. Put him on Florida and they only lose to us this year.Florida way, WAY outstripped their potential by getting to 10 wins in the regular season. I thought it was more on Treon in the season...as the reason why they were declining in performance by the week seemingly. And to be sure, he was not making great throws but his best two games were his first two starts. In retrospect, I think what really happened is that teams started scouting out the ways to get at their weaknesses better as the season wore on. They had OL issues and you could kinda see it against us...Treon Harris had no hope to be successful even if he possessed DeShaun Watson talent.
Even THEN, any system that systematically ranks OSU that many places over MSU is just wrong (makes you wonder if it was coded by a Buckeye's fan.)FPI just isn't that great. Football Outsiders F+ rankings are my preferred "advanced analytic" for college football.
http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fplus
1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Ohio State
4. Oklahoma
5. Ole Miss
6. Stanford
7. Notre Dame
8. Michigan
9. Michigan State
10. LSU
To be real, Ole Miss was very much that caliber of team this year but they no-showed two games and got out-played in a wild game against a hot team. And that is how you have a team that should have went 12-1 and in the playoffs end up actually going 10-3. Sometimes that championship pedigree gets overrated but years like what Ole Miss had this year kinda goes to show there is something to it on occasion.