BCS Standings Released (Michigan 22)
Title says about it all. 1st BCS Standings released Michigan comes in at #22. Some other information.
1. Alabama
2. Florida St.
3. Oregon
4. Ohio
5. Missouri (very surprising)
22. Michigan
24. Nebraska
Conference Breakdown
SEC - 6
ACC - 4
PAC12- 4
Big 12- 4
B1G- 3
October 20th, 2013 at 8:45 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 8:57 PM ^
I think much of where we end up hinges on this next game. The coaching staff and team #134 needs to prove they can win a tough game against a quality opponent on the road. Beating MSU will be huge.
Here's to a November climb.
GO BLUE!
October 20th, 2013 at 8:58 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 8:59 PM ^
Missouri is highly overrated. Tell me about their wins over UGA and Florida but I don't care, we've played this game and Mizzou is a pretender. They'll lose 2 or 3 by the time the season ends
October 20th, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:38 PM ^
Things People Said About LSU at BAMA in 2011.tumblr
October 20th, 2013 at 9:52 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
Well, both scenarios (team that didn't win conference division advances and a conference championship loser advances) have played out in the BCS era. I give my edge to the SEC bias in polling, but there's only one way we'd ever find out.
October 20th, 2013 at 11:21 PM ^
of the 51-14 game
October 21st, 2013 at 10:08 AM ^
Not a chance. Clemson doesn't get a rematch when they got crushed at home. Alabama only got a shot because they lost a tight game where they missed some FGs, and there really was nobody elses. Next three in the rankings were Oklahoma St. who dropped a late game vs. Iowa St., Stanford who got drubbed by Oregon, and Oregon who had two losses including a bigger loss to LSU than Alabama's.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:42 PM ^
This is the last year of the BCS.
You must have missed it.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:56 PM ^
its just that his last sentence is worded oddly
October 20th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:15 PM ^
The way this works is if you win, you move up. You can't NOT move their rank up after beating Georgia and Missouri.
October 20th, 2013 at 10:57 PM ^
to forget that this is how it's got to work. Suspicion about how good you really are may lose you a few votes (see OSU), but. . .
October 21st, 2013 at 1:21 AM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:00 PM ^
Bama will be #1 until they lose.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:32 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:59 PM ^
They haven't been terribly impressive this year. Only putting 200 yds of offense on VT, giving up 42 pts and 628 yds to TAMU, and not putting Ole Miss away convincingly. My top two right now would be FSU and Oregon
October 21st, 2013 at 12:41 AM ^
Bama's offense did look like poop against VaTech but they've improved quite a bit since then. They had either 3 or 4 new starters on their oline (fwiw, they oline has improved a heck of a lot more than UM's has so far this year) Bama was way more convincing than any other team against Ol' Miss. They shut out Ol' Miss and beat'em by 25. Ol' Miss other losses are by 8 and 3. Ol' Miss has scored at least 22 points in every other game.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:04 PM ^
It's all about November. Going to learn a lot about this team in 2 weeks
October 20th, 2013 at 9:12 PM ^
Why are we always "learning about the team?" It's too late in the season to be learning about the team. They are what they are and they either perform or they don't. Expectations are out the window. Now they either win or they lose. The BCS rankings mean nothing to us. Find a way to win and we go to the Rose Bowl. That's it.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:34 PM ^
+1
The constant "we'll find out about this team in November" idea irritates me, too. Every year. The WWL guys are the worst at it. Constantly "we'll know more about this team next week" or the week after or the month after. They say it all year.
We know who this Michigan team is. They're a good team, not an elite team, who plays to the level of competition and suffers from youth in key spots.They're turnover prone, they have big play potential from their QB both positive and negative, they lack any stars on defense even of the Kovacs-I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-a-Law-Firm kind, and they have no pass rush but decent team defending vs the run and pass both. That's who they are.
Knowing who will win a specific game != finding out about the team.
I vote that in all future seasons, past the first Saturday in October, anyone who says "We'll find out about this team when X happens" must read the sonnet thread and post in it no less than three times as punishment.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:38 PM ^
Nothing is static, to include this team. If there was nothing to learn, what would be the point of watching?
October 20th, 2013 at 9:50 PM ^
Maybe I wasn't clear. Of course there are things to learn. We don't know the future. Well, THE_KNOWLEDGE does. Except for him it's actually the past. Whatever.
My point is that it's silly to imply that we don't know a lot about a team by now, and it's equally silly to imply that we won't learn significant information about a team until the last few games of the year.
As for watching things without learning, I refer you to my students. They assure me that they repeatedly enjoy things that have no relation to learning whatsoever.
October 20th, 2013 at 10:07 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 10:06 PM ^
I recently watched a special about the 1997 championship team. I was surprised by how much I did not know about that "team". It's liking reading a book twice. Often the second time reveals the nuance of greatest importance. I'm different than I was yesterday. So is every person on team # 134. With that in mind, the opportunity to learn something more becomes exponential.
As far as your students go, well, maybe I would ask them to define learning.
October 20th, 2013 at 11:01 PM ^
learn from what they do in November? That would be freaky. And isn't saying "either we win or we lose" the same damned thing?
What we know--if they show up and play error-free ball we are in every game.
What we "have to learn"--if they do that; if the o-line continues to cohere; how yesterday's d woes translate against November's teams.
Etcetera.
October 20th, 2013 at 10:27 PM ^
What you say would probably be true most seasons, but our incredibly back-loaded schedule makes it difficult to determine how good we actually are. We could be a 10-win or a 6-win team. I honestly have no idea right now.
October 20th, 2013 at 11:26 PM ^
In particular, whether this Michigan team will have won or lost to MSU.
October 21st, 2013 at 2:28 AM ^
October 21st, 2013 at 7:36 AM ^
October 21st, 2013 at 9:31 AM ^
+10 Old Wolverine in Iowa would be so shitfaced/hungover after the FYS game, win or lose, that it would take me until the Nebraska game to fully understand the result of the State game. New Wolverine in Iowa will meditate before and after the game to be in full conscious acceptance of the result.
October 21st, 2013 at 10:14 AM ^
Has already claimed victory for that one. The advantage is we get another bye week and can prepare for Northwestern.
October 20th, 2013 at 10:31 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
One of the computer polls has Missouri #1 ??!?! Now that UGA & FLA have fallen out of the Top 25, they have not beaten anyone in the Top 25 and lost their starting quarterback.... Playoffs cannot get here soon enough.
I'm a little surprised Oregon is on the outside looking in. They have been extremely impressive imo, but I do think Bama and FSU look legit too. So, I guess it all will figure itself out in November. I just hope we don't have 3-4 undefeated teams come bowl selection time.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:31 PM ^
Ohio State is ahead of Missouri. Exactly how many of the current Top 25 have they beaten?
October 20th, 2013 at 9:39 PM ^
None of the computers ranked OSU #1 ...
October 20th, 2013 at 9:05 PM ^
Glad to know that Arkansas made 'Bama sweat a little this week to really earn that #1 slot.
October 20th, 2013 at 10:11 PM ^
Karma.
October 20th, 2013 at 11:02 PM ^
the tide is turning on the ribaldry.
October 21st, 2013 at 10:16 AM ^
He will be irrelevent for years and years to come.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:06 PM ^
It's surprising to see Nebraska in and Wisconsin out... It would be hard to argue that Nebraska is a better team than Wisconsin. But since when is the BCS about ranking teams based on how good they actually are?
October 20th, 2013 at 9:09 PM ^
Duh, dude.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:36 PM ^
I agree with you, but I also like Young Geezy's answer.
This is just another example of the polls' inadequacy.
October 20th, 2013 at 9:08 PM ^
October 20th, 2013 at 9:10 PM ^
As nice as that is, unfortunately so are we...
October 20th, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
We won the Sugar Bowl...