According tot he AP it is Utah. But I go by Sagarin's and Stanford was still rated better.
19 Stanford A = 83.80
31 Utah A = 79.22
It becomes eye test vs computer formula.
A&M in Top 4, LOU falls
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19 Stanford A = 83.80
31 Utah A = 79.22
It becomes eye test vs computer formula.
Sagarin fails on this issue. The committee agrees with me. Utah ranked. Stanford correctly not ranked. No way Stanford is a top 20 team. Sagarin has WSU one spot below Stanford. LOL. Did you see that blowout?
I prefer formula driven analysis over a popularity contest. To each his own.
But those are not the only alternatives. If you watch these teams play, you know that Sagarin's computer is wrong. They have actually played some games and when he has a team that smashed another one spot below the team that was smashed, you might recognize there exists a problem. Eyes wide open.
Are you sure you haven't already been fooled by Kentucky? Nobody is foolproof.
Who actually ever considered UL to be a title contender? Not me. They are not and have never been title contenders. With that said, they are a good team and will be a good win for Stoops when Kentucky beats UL in our matchup. Jackson is a great talent and is hard to stop, but with our run game, we can keep the ball out of that kids hands and control the clock. I'm not worried about UL ' s. defense. They have a decent defense, but we have two really talented running backs in Boom and Snell JR. We will beat UL in our final matchup.
Let's see how those backs do against Georgia's rush defense.ehichbis just abive Louisville's rush defense.. UK's backs have been putting up good numbers but they haven't done it against against a Top 50 rush defense.
Miss St. 58th
Vandy 69th
Mizzu 119th
Tenn 101st.
Georgia 13th
UofL 16th
If UK can run on Georgia's rush defense then I will give them credit but the two teams you did play that had a Top 20 rush defense you weren't able to break 100 yards combined.
I suggest you look at Utah's schedule.
They currently have 3 wins by more than a touchdown. Those are to Southern Utah, San Jose St., and Arizona.
A 4 point win over USC, 1 over BYU, 5 over Oregon St, 7 over UCLA.
Stanford has lost to Wash St, Washington, and Colorado. All ranked teams. The teams Stanford has beaten have all been by 10 or more except ND.
Stanford has beaten the same teams by more than Utah. Ap/Coaches Poll be danged.
I suggest you look at Utah's schedule.
They currently have 3 wins by more than a touchdown. Those are to Southern Utah, San Jose St., and Arizona.
A 4 point win over USC, 1 over BYU, 5 over Oregon St, 7 over UCLA.
Stanford has lost to Wash St, Washington, and Colorado. All ranked teams. The teams Stanford has beaten have all been by 10 or more except ND.
Stanford has beaten the same teams by more than Utah. Ap/Coaches Poll be danged.
38 and 27. Those are the point differentials in Stanford's losses to Wash and WSU, respectively. Sagarin had the 3 loss Stanford one spot ahead of the 2 loss WSU. I suspect WSU takes issue with that.
I have no doubt. Not every ranking fits every opinion. But I prefer to use the comp stats over human stats which tend to be more name driven biased.
At this point, it appears there is a 3 team race for the final playoff spot between UofL, Ohio St, and Washington. If UofL wins out, Ohio State loses to Michigan, and Washington loses any game, then UofL is in. No way the committee puts in a two loss team over UofL.
Auburn is going to lose again @Bama, Nebraska and Florida lost again last weekend. So the only team left to even consider would be Wisconsin with two losses. I just can't see the committee picking Wisconsin over UofL.
UofL needs a lot of help to get in, but it's not that far fetched to think Michigan beats Ohio State and Washington drops a game.
Auburn is going to lose again @Bama, Nebraska and Florida lost again last weekend. So the only team left to even consider would be Wisconsin with two losses. I just can't see the committee picking Wisconsin over UofL.
UofL needs a lot of help to get in, but it's not that far fetched to think Michigan beats Ohio State and Washington drops a game.
I have been dreading this day for a long time, I was afraid the day would come when I would have to pull for Ohio State.
Pretty simple, UK is better than you think they are, surprise! Of course we probably wouldn't have to be very good to reach that goal.
Big10 could get real interesting, lets say this happens, tOSU beats Mich, and then loses to Wisconsin in the Big10 championship game, game was very close when they played. You end up with a 2 loss champion, a 1 loss team who didn't win their division. Who gets the bid, and Big10 will get 1. tOSU would be out, so does Wisconsin get in with 2 losses as conference champion over a 1 loss Michigan who beat them, does Mich who didn't win their division get in over the conference champion who they beat, or do both get in? For UofL or any other 1 loss non conference champion I think MIchigan has to win out, Harbaugh and the Michigan name will get them in with 1 loss even as non division champion and Big10 gets 2 in if tOSU beats Michigan and wins the conference, even over an undefeated Washington. Bama and Clemson aren't very likely to lose a game. Big 12 and PAC12 get omitted from the playoffs, SEC and ACC get 1 in while Big10 puts their 2 big names in, if that happens hopefully both lose the first round.
IF Washington loses and tOSU beats Michigan in a close game, Michigan will be the 1 loss team to make it in. Like it or not, tOSU and UofL are both 1 loss teams, but no one really thinks UofL would be tOSU other than UofL fans.
It's not a 3 team race for the final spot. Bama, Washington, Clemson and Michigan have it locked up if they all win out. The race is between 1 loss teams to see who gets a spot if any of these teams lose.
When Penn State was a good seven to eight spots higher in the CFB poll than any metric on the boards that told me that Michigan is a virtual lock even if they lose to Ohio State to be in the CFP. If Wisconsin won the Big Ten title game over Ohio State in those circumstances it would be Michigan and Wisconsin.
Alabama is in even with a loss to Auburn IMHO. Clemson needs to win out...but while they have an impressive resume' they aren't as sure a thing against UNC or Virginia Tech as they'd like to think. I think Michigan is in given what I outlined above unless they get hammered in Columbus--which they won't. Defensively that shapes up to me as a game where 24 will win it.
That leaves Washington obviously as your 4th and the most realistic barrier to two Big Ten teams getting in.
Alabama is in even with a loss to Auburn IMHO. Clemson needs to win out...but while they have an impressive resume' they aren't as sure a thing against UNC or Virginia Tech as they'd like to think. I think Michigan is in given what I outlined above unless they get hammered in Columbus--which they won't. Defensively that shapes up to me as a game where 24 will win it.
That leaves Washington obviously as your 4th and the most realistic barrier to two Big Ten teams getting in.
The problem with that is Washington's SOS is worse and OSU has not been able to jump them, yet. Sometimes it is not only who beats you, but when.
Extremely happy we are doing better than previously. I wish we could beat a winning team, but that may have to wait until next year.
But if "Washington loses any game" then they have one loss, they aren't a "two loss team". So you'd have one loss Washington vs one loss Louisville, and Washington would have a conference title (unless that loss came in the conference championship game)......
Mojo...not if that one loss was to Washington State. Washington State is also undefeated in the PAC12's North Division. Washington State does have to go to Boulder to play Colorado next week so even if they lost that game...if they beat Washington head-to-head they'd have that as the tiebreaker.
hmm, didn't realize that - so there's more intrigue for you guys than I realized.
...and for reasons I haven't at all figured out completely overlooked. It's why I keep coming back to the likelihood that there are going to be two Big Ten teams in the Playoffs. Either one of Michigan or Ohio State (or both) as well as Wisconsin if they win the Big Ten Title game.
America wants to see Lamar Jackson in the playoffs. Louisville will backdoor it's way in like bama has done numerous times during the BCS era.
America wants a bama/Louisville match up. Ratings Trump all!!!
America wants a bama/Louisville match up. Ratings Trump all!!!
We will get our chance to see how "over rated" they are very soon. I f we get within 21 points of them I will be happy...go BBN
I do not see a 1 loss Washington in the playoffs. They get to go play either Ohio State or Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.