Why not? They would have been conference champs. The rankings are what they are. Just beat Utah.
Dropped 3 spots
- Thread starter blion72
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Purdue was not even in the Top 25 of the playoff rankings, they were not going to jump 15 to 17 sports to jump PSU with a win, they would have kicked PSU out of the Rose Bowl, the other teams that past PSU in the rankings were not 15 or 17 lower.
But you posted that others passed PSU because they were conference champs and it wasn’t surprising….had Purdue won, they would have been conference champs.
if this were a year where we were in the 12 team playoff, these rankings would matter a bit more. assume that the conf games are going to drop when we start the 12 team playoff, but ranking will man a lot.
The fact that people still give credence to the AP poll or the coaches poll or anything involving a preseason poll is laughable. They mean nothing nowadays. All it does is stoke perception. Would Texas A&M's 5-7 season been a big deal this year had they not been randomly ranked preseason top 10? The polls no longer decide a 'champion'.
What was Penn State's best win this season? Probably Purdue and then Auburn. Not exactly an earthshaker. The biggest issue with the committee's rankings -- and this has been a problem since the very beginning of this -- is that they put rankings out for each week of the last 2 months of the season. Therefore, fans get an overinflated view of where they are (through no fault of their own) versus where they end up when the fire of the regular season is finally put out. If the football committee takes a hint from the basketball committee, they won't set themselves up for second-guessing and controversy by having a weekly rankings release. Because while I laugh at those whining about getting dropped, I completely agree with @blion72 in that there will be a lot of pissed off fans who were thinking that they'd get a home game only to see the next week that they're barely in the tournament.
What was Penn State's best win this season? Probably Purdue and then Auburn. Not exactly an earthshaker. The biggest issue with the committee's rankings -- and this has been a problem since the very beginning of this -- is that they put rankings out for each week of the last 2 months of the season. Therefore, fans get an overinflated view of where they are (through no fault of their own) versus where they end up when the fire of the regular season is finally put out. If the football committee takes a hint from the basketball committee, they won't set themselves up for second-guessing and controversy by having a weekly rankings release. Because while I laugh at those whining about getting dropped, I completely agree with @blion72 in that there will be a lot of pissed off fans who were thinking that they'd get a home game only to see the next week that they're barely in the tournament.
This year I think a PSU/Bama game is very even. Bame was not that great this year and could easily have 4 losses, they got very lucky vs Texas and I believe Auburn was a little better vs Bama than the PSU score.
So if TCU doesn’t get penalized for losing their CCG, why should K State get rewarded? Either they count or they don’t. K State got to play in their CCG with a 9-3 record, they wouldn’t have if they were in the Big Ten East…it’s not a level playing field and shouldn’t be treated like it is.
Very good point. And I can remember when a Colorado team was ranked #3 because its "only losses" were to #1 NU and #2 OU.
The rest of the Big 8 was much softer than the current Big Ten.
To paraphrase Tolstoy: "Polls. What are they good for?"
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