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
Newly Released ESPN FPI Rankings (Not so good Clemson)
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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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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.
Your money quote: "The index is amazingly flawed if Oklahoma (Clemson dominated 37-17) and a three-loss Ole Miss team are ahead of Clemson in the final rankings."
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!
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I was too overconfident that we would destroy Clemson, that OK game was very telling after all. I could not be happier that Auburn starts the season with 'em. They are tough.
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?
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?
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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.
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.
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It was night and day with Grier, not sure sure exactly why other than he understood the offense better. It will be interesting to see a Del Rio led Florida, I just can't see them continuing with Harris considering his play. He was the worst QB we played imo, he could not run nor pass at an SEC level. It was bad.
ESPN needs to adjust their formula. They got #1 right, but OU didn't belong on the same field as Clemson and no way was the #2 team. And it wasn't a fluke. CU beat them worse last year.
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.
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?
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.
Clemson really wasn't that good and never should have been in the playoffs. It was rigged so we could win. The numbers don't lie.
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