UOducksTK1 wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 2:19 pm
5 SEC in top 6? To me, Utah and Miami have played a better schedule than a few of the teams above them and should be higher.
Quite honestly I debated flipping Oregon and Ole Miss, but I don't think Oregon would beat them right now. I don't think Miami would beat anyone above them, nor Utah. In fact, I'm confident MC will find a way to just barely crack the top 25 by season's end
Fair enough. There is a fine balance between eye ball test and SOS. At least we can agree Missouri had neither. And it is refreshing to see them drop out of the top 10.
For conversation sake… But how do we know Ole Miss is legit? They’ve pummeled Wake Forest, Georgia Southern, MTSU, and Furman. I feel like half the teams in the top 25 would do the same.
In my eyes they could be anywhere from the 5th best team to 15th. We can always move Ole Miss back up if they show up against LSU and Oklahoma in the next few weeks.
We could always move anyone back up or down. This ranking is just my thoughts as to where the teams are now. By the end of the season things can, and likely will, be totally different.
Except for the Civil War, the Oregon offense hasn't been overly impressive. Sure they put up points against BSU, but if they played a better defense, that offensive line they used in the first 2 games would've been destroyed.
As it relates to the Ducks, I don't mind because if we win our games it will all work out and right now we haven't looked like a Top 5 team.
As it relates to our first year of being "B1G" (how do we chant that? Big-big-big? or B-one-G, B-one-G?) I certainly see how we need to stack more teams than that conference down south for maximizing playoff spots.
I propose that UCLA do something useful for the conference and create biased AI sportswriters that end up skewing public perception towards the Notorious B1G.
UOducksTK1 wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 2:19 pm
5 SEC in top 6? To me, Utah and Miami have played a better schedule than a few of the teams above them and should be higher.
Quite honestly I debated flipping Oregon and Ole Miss, but I don't think Oregon would beat them right now. I don't think Miami would beat anyone above them, nor Utah. In fact, I'm confident MC will find a way to just barely crack the top 25 by season's end
Fair enough. There is a fine balance between eye ball test and SOS. At least we can agree Missouri had neither. And it is refreshing to see them drop out of the top 10.
For conversation sake… But how do we know Ole Miss is legit? They’ve pummeled Wake Forest, Georgia Southern, MTSU, and Furman. I feel like half the teams in the top 25 would do the same.
In my eyes they could be anywhere from the 5th best team to 15th. We can always move Ole Miss back up if they show up against LSU and Oklahoma in the next few weeks.
All evidence suggests LSU isn't a top 15 team. Struggled against one of the worst Big Ten teams in UCLA. Would have lost to south Carolina if not for them losing their starting QB and some interesting officiating. Their best game is a loss to USC.
Oh I completely agree. But also for LSU, a home game at Tiger Stadium can do good things for them.
