Week 1 College football playoff poll released
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Ok, so you think this Saturday, Ole Miss would beat Alabama? The way Sims has grown and our defense has gotten better.
I hope WV wins. It could drop us the more I keep thinking about it based on other rankings. Look at LSU. They lost to #1 & #3 and beat #4 but are at 19. Wow.
It does not matter what we think at this point. You have to use what we know. That is being objective.
What else would you put in lieu of that? Ole Miss also has a better win than Alabama - Alabama.
Right now the answer is 'Yes'. We are in the same division of the same conference with matching 7-1 records and they have the head -to-head edge. I mean it's as objectively clear cut as can be. I'm mystified why a few vocal minority are so outraged.
It's all going to be a moot point very soon. OM is playing AU.....next we play LSU.....things will shake out big time in just 2 weeks.
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Look how they lost the two games though, blow outs! They are where they need to be IMO.
Head to head is more important when you are discussing teams with same record and similar SOS.
No you have to use the "eye ball test" and common sense, quit dancing around the question. Do you think Ole Miss would beat Alabama Saturday?
The disconnect is in the fact that the AP and moreso, the Coaches' poll have a slightly different goal or focus than does the committee. Not necessarily better or worse, just different. The polls are focused on ranking the teams by strength. They are more predictive. The committee is focused on ranking teams by their level of having "deserved" consideration. It is more retrodictive. In other words, the AP and Coaches' polls are more trying to order teams based on who would beat whom on a neutral field. The committee is more focused on ordering teams based on already proven accomplishments.
I could go by a hypothetical... or I could use actual results from reality. Ole Miss beat Alabama head to head.
I do think Alabama would beat Ole Miss this Saturday. I also think that if Bama had played Oregon or Auburn in Arizona in 2010 they would have won by 17+ points. However, that doesn't really matter.
AU got beat by 15. But it was to #1. They are where i predicted they should be. They have the best resume of any one loss team. Losing to Good teams is a plus if you have to lose.
Oregon will move into Top 4 with a win over Stanford. Not much hope for a Stanford win this year.
TCU will move to 5th with a win over WVU. Bama should remain at 6th.
SEC down to two teams in Top 4 next week. Will be down to one at the end.
TCU will move to 5th with a win over WVU. Bama should remain at 6th.
SEC down to two teams in Top 4 next week. Will be down to one at the end.
Not when you are talking about a team that lost on the road to a top 5 team three weeks ago vs a team that lost to a #21 ranked team last week.
Your response proves nothing. If you want to say that Bama is better than a team who beat them straight up go ahead. Anyone with half of a brain and any reasoning skills sees the fallacy of this argument. Especially with all things being equal. If OM was 6-2 then your argument would be valid. But OM is not. They are 7-1 with a win OVER Bama. A win 3 weeks ago is not of lesser importance than it is now. Nor is a loss this week more detrimental than it was three weeks ago. It's about body of work up to this point. Will the totality of the season show that Bama deserves to be in the top 4 over OM? Maybe. This is yet to be seen. This is week 8. What's going to matter is week 13 when the total body of work will be considered for each team. At that point Bama might deserve to be higher based on how the rest of the season turns out for all teams.
Dude the eye ball test proved Ol Miss beat Bama. How hard is that to understand? Even the SEC system says they should be ranked ahead of us at this point. Stop arguing for something that could change 7 more times. If Bama had beat Miss and had one loss i would expect we would be ranked ahead of them even if they were playing better at the current time. We beat them. That matters Most!
Just to be clear - you understand that Ole Miss beat Alabama, correct? Your posts don't seem to indicate understanding of that fact.
Wow. A lot of teeth gnashing and hand wringing for the first poll that is basically meaningless since it will change every week for the next 6 weeks.
If Alabama wins out and is sitting at home on Dec 6 , then let the hand gnashing and teeth wringing begin.
If Alabama wins out and is sitting at home on Dec 6 , then let the hand gnashing and teeth wringing begin.
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