Pat Forde - the only ESPN personality who thinks we aren't a top 25 team

[msubullie4life]

<div>http://espn.go.com/college-football/powerrankings?show=middle</div><div>
</div>I never bought into this whole "Pat-Forde-is-a-prick. He-hates-Starkville-and-State" thing. But I'mstartingto think there might be some truth to it.<div>
</div><div>Not that the 17er's rankings matter or anything but I found it interesting that he would snub us like this.</div>

 

[TXDawg.sixpack]

with Boise and TCU above them.

 

[Frances Drebin]

...we've caught a lot of breaks (missing AJ Green, Case Keenum, Chris Rainey, Derrick Locke, etc.), and we've been mostly unimpressive in a lot of our games, so I don't think it's completely crazy for someone to think we're overrated at this point. But 7-2 in the toughest division of the toughest conference in all of the land is hard to argue against at the end of the day. I'd say if we keep doing what we're doing, Forde will eventually come around, and if we start losing football games, his beliefs will be validated.

 

[KurtRambis4]

MSU really gets under this guys skin. I love it. How have you not ever bought into his perceived hate for us? Everytime he's forced to mention us, he dogs us. Every single time. It's kind of funny now, knowing that MSU gets him so worked up.

 

[OurPrideAndJoySnots]

He has most of the SEC teams ranked at or worse than everyone else. Mizzou graduate/homer and you can tell. He is the only one with them in the top 10.

 

[klerushund]

...but did you notice how highly Ivan Maisel ranked us? 15? Not too shabby...

 

[Bulldog Bruce]

I would agree due to our history, some unimpressive wins, our one blowout we would seem to be rated a littler higher than we should be. But the last two weeks of the BCS we end up higher than the voted polls. Lsst week we ended up 2 spots higher than the polls. This week we are 1 spot higher that the polls. So our strength of schedule must be pretty good. So I would think are about where we "deserve" to be at this point.

We have two games that could really prove our ranking and move us up if we win one of them. (AL and Ark). The Ole Miss game we have to win or it hurts us.

 

[EAVdog]

Forde goes way out of his way to take shots at us. Nobody would ever write about a college town not having 'paved roads'.

 

[FlabLoser]

...we've caught a lot of breaks (missing AJ Green, Case Keenum, Chris Rainey, Derrick Locke, etc.), and we've been mostly unimpressive in a lot of our games, so I don't think it's completely crazy for someone to think we're overrated at this point. But 7-2 in the toughest division of the toughest conference in all of the land is hard to argue against at the end of the day. I'd say if we keep doing what we're doing, Forde will eventually come around, and if we start losing football games, his beliefs will be validated.

Its true we're in the toughest division of the toughest conference. So what's our record against this toughest division in the toughest conference? Its 0-2. Anybody can be 0-2 in the SEC west.

Except Jacksonville State. Or Vanderbilt.

 

[FlabLoser]

I would agree due to our history, some unimpressive wins, our one blowout we would seem to be rated a littler higher than we should be. But the last two weeks of the BCS we end up higher than the voted polls. Lsst week we ended up 2 spots higher than the polls. This week we are 1 spot higher that the polls. So our strength of schedule must be pretty good. So I would think are about where we "deserve" to be at this point.

We have two games that could really prove our ranking and move us up if we win one of them. (AL and Ark). The Ole Miss game we have to win or it hurts us.

I noticed that too. And I think the answer is that the computers don't have the "these guys have sucked for this entire decade" bias.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

It's just early season jockeying.

 

[fishwater99]

He hates STATE and S-Vegas.......

 

[Pat Pat]

We've also been without Berry, the whole year with Green, a game or two with Ballard, Brignone. I may be missing some. Every year, every team has injuries. It's funny how when teams used to kick our *** they never pointed to our injuries. Only State fans do that ridiculous ****.

And you're wrong on Forde, too. He has some sort of vendetta against MSU.</p>

 

[Sutterkane]

he's also the only person to rank UCF. Complete idiot. LSU's ranking in his top 25 is easily their lowest among the voters.

 

[Frances Drebin]

...I'm not giving my opinion, I'm speculating on what Forde is probably thinking. I don't care what he thinks, personally. It'll all shake out eventually.

As far as your Forde vendetta comment, who gives a ****. You want to talk about State fans doing ignorant ****, well, it's all of you that scream media bias at every chance that takes the cake there.

 

[Pat Pat]

and you think it's not completely crazy. That clears the water. So you do, in essence, share his ridiculous opinion.

Many posters in this thread have pointed out other ridiculous outliers in his rankings. So it appears there is bias there.

Yeah, then the "settle down" comment. You have to rile me up before you tell me to settle down. Nice attempt to deflect the fact that you posted stupid ****.

 

[SLUdog]

means we should be ranked about #20. Pat Forde is an idiot. If we finish 8-4 we still deserve to be ranked #25. If we finish 9-4 after a bowl win we deserve to be ranked in the top 20. <div>
</div><div>Edited to add: This idiot has UCF ranked!</div>

 

[rem101]

How the hell could you rank them 19?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

No need to be a dick about it.

 

[Frances Drebin]

...and all I'm doing is speculating. Quit being retarded.