The Polls Are Out And Mississippi St. Tops Them Both...
Here's the ESPN link to the polls - LINK
The top three in both polls are Mississippi State, Florida State and Ole Miss in that order in both cases, no less. Alabama is 7th in both poll, and Auburn is 6th in the AP and 8th in the Coaches Poll.
BIg Ten, you say?
AP: Michigan State (8th), Ohio State (13th), Nebraska (19th)
Coaches: Michigan State (6th), Ohio State (13th), Nebraska (19th)
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa received votes of varied number in each as well.
October 12th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
They won 14-13 over a team that is on a 13 game SEC losing streak.
October 12th, 2014 at 6:55 PM ^
On the road.
I never understood how you can punish a team for winning. That just sounds fucking dumb
October 12th, 2014 at 7:38 PM ^
Who cares? It's not like the #7 team in the country is going to be winning any trophies.
October 12th, 2014 at 4:03 PM ^
I don't understand how MSU is ranked above an oregon team that beat them already. Was their win over purdue that impressive?
October 12th, 2014 at 4:11 PM ^
They were ranked ahead of Oregon last week too.
October 12th, 2014 at 4:23 PM ^
Oregon went and beat UCLA soundly. MSU struggled with Purdue. And to begin with Oregon should have been infront of MSU.
October 12th, 2014 at 5:56 PM ^
Although this instance is not the best example, teams can not always be ranked behind the team that beat them. Penn state has to be behind us but ahead of rutgers while rutgers is ahead of us
October 12th, 2014 at 6:16 PM ^
Not always, but when Oregon has much better wins than anything MSU has they need to be. Their is no reasonable justification for ranking MSU above Oregon.
October 12th, 2014 at 4:38 PM ^
is looking pretty good this year with their only loss to TCU. TCU beat OK at #4 and should have beat Baylor ay #5.
October 12th, 2014 at 4:58 PM ^
opinion.
Both teams have better wins than FSU.
FSU: Clemson(24) and Oklahoma State(15). 24, 15
Ole Miss: aTm (sigh, 21), and Alabama (7). 21, 7
MSU: Auburn (6), aTm (sigh again, 21), LSU (NR). 6, 21, NR
FSU would jump back up into the first two slots with a win versus ND (or at least have a good argument to be in one of the two top spots).
Very interesting. Gonna be one heck of an Egg Bowl.
October 12th, 2014 at 8:14 PM ^
My frustration with the polls is that SEC team #1 beats SEC team#2 and at the time it looks impressive. They jump from almost outside the poll to top10. We later come to find that team#1 is actually a train wreck and team#2 has lost again as well.
This, gentleman, is how juggernaut MissSt is where it is. LSU (now out of the poll was #8 at the time), A&M (Desperately holding on to the poll was #6 at the time). I'll give them Auburn because I believe Auburn is on the better SEC teams. They have beaten S. Alabama, UAB (by 14 points) and Southern Miss. Atleast they are FBS teams.
October 12th, 2014 at 8:25 PM ^
Thank you. This is why I will take the undefeated team that has won 22 in a row. No one knows what is and isn't a good win yet.
October 12th, 2014 at 11:42 PM ^
If you were to win $1M for picking the winner of FSU vs. Miss St. next weekend, who would you pick?
I'll take Miss St. I'd also take Ole Miss over FSU. FSU's 22-game win streak never enters into that calculation.
October 12th, 2014 at 11:53 PM ^
I'll take the 'Noles.
October 12th, 2014 at 9:11 PM ^
Absolutely what I was thinking. Same with Ole Miss, who beat Boise St. to start the year (but needed 28 points in the 4th to make it look way better of a win than it was) and then beat a meh Alabama team and a cratering A&M team. I think Miss. St. is a good team, but #1 in the country based on that schedule is ridiculous. There isn't a dominant team this year compared to those in the past, but the SEC'ing of the preseason rankings created this feedback loop that makes every win a "big" win and every loss a "good" loss because everyone is ranked.
October 12th, 2014 at 9:55 PM ^
Wow, only thing that is a bigger waste of time than arguing about who is #1 vs. #2 after only 6 weeks is.......nothing! Even the Hoke "Well..." count has more relevance and statistical significance than this discussion.