Michigan enters the Coaches Poll at #21
http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/2015/6/
Northwestern sitting at #14, not that any of this matters.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
The idea of creating a composite of computer ratings and human polls wasnt a bad idea, but the fact that this poll was once used to decide who plays in the national championship game and who doesnt, was probably the biggest flaw of the BCS.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
Double post.
October 4th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
What's clear is that those polled don't like change. Once a team becomes entrenched in its spot, the voters really don't like to unseat them unless they absolutely have to. Likewise, they don't want to add anyone back in, either. We're playing better football than both Ohio State and Michigan State on the whole. Our wins have been against better teams with much bigger margins. How those two teams can still rank in the top 3 based on this season, five games in - not one game in, but five - just shows that the polls are really more of a popularity contest than anything else. Either that or none of the voters have actually seen any of the games.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:05 PM ^
It's why FSU a stayed so highly ranked last year. They won the title the year before and leveled everyone in their path.
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October 4th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
Anybody here with an opinion similar to the AP or Coaches' rankings should ask themselves:
who did each of the top 5 teams play? What were the scores? How strong were the teams they played based on the prior rankings? Then do the same for the other 20 teams in the top 25.
Even if you spend a half hour of your busy day reviewing these facts, I wonder how much you will remember about them when you make your rankings. I wonder whether you actuallly even consider what you do remember when you rank the teams.
Indeed, neither MSU or OSU has played any of the teams in the current top 25 linked above, yet they are ranked #1 and #3. Did voters even consider the fact that both teams' latest wins were not detrmined untill essentially the end of each game? Both against unranked teams? Including MSU's home game against a terrible Purdue team? Did they consider last week how the quality of MSU's best opponent (now unranked Oregaon) plummeted in the computer polls after the latter lost by 42 points to Utah? Not much, I think, since MSU remained #2 last week.
October 4th, 2015 at 1:04 PM ^
I'm confident that OSU will round to form by November, but TCU, Bama, LSU, and possibly even Clemson can all make cases to dethrone them in January. I leave out MSU because of their injury bug and that their secondary will cost them a game or two at some point. Thought about Baylor, but until they stop playing cupcakes like Southern Central Texas State University and actually beat someone of substance, I don't think they're a real contender. Try putting up 60 on Oklahoma, Briles.
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October 4th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
Is Dantonio voting for himself or is someone trolling Sparty?
October 4th, 2015 at 1:46 PM ^
My money is on Mike Dantoni voting for himself.
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October 4th, 2015 at 3:06 PM ^
If interested UMs range is 11 to 23. Highest distribution is 20, 17, 23 in that order. No problems with that as BYU is the lone quality win thus far.
October 4th, 2015 at 3:38 PM ^
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October 4th, 2015 at 5:13 PM ^
It's going to be fun to watch!