September 30th, 2018 at 1:38 PM ^
Lol. I guarantee we beat UK on a neutral field.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:40 PM ^
I agree but that's not how the rankings work. I don't really care about the coaches poll anyway, it's the most worthless of the worthless polls
September 30th, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
That is how rankings work though. If you don't think UK would beat UM on a neutral field you don't put them ahead. The problem with rankings is people don't have to put money where there vote is.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:56 PM ^
If they only rank based on who wins on a neutral field then why bother with weekly rankings at all?
September 30th, 2018 at 1:58 PM ^
Huh? You update your rankings based on the new data you get with each week.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:17 PM ^
The rankings are based on resume, not who you think will win on a nuetral field. Teams are ranked below other teams that they already beat based on overall resume every year.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
This! You don't get a championship based on who would be predicted to win on a neutral field, you win your games and build your resume.
September 30th, 2018 at 3:37 PM ^
Yes you do. You pick who you think the best teams are. Usually that aligns with the best resumes...
You guys have some notion that all AP voters and coaches use some set criterion for ranking. They don't. The simplest method of ranking teams is, is this team better than this team. If you think X team is better than Y team but you rank Y ahead of X, your methodology is idiotic.
September 30th, 2018 at 3:53 PM ^
How many voters out there actually thought UCF was the 6th best team in the country last year?
September 30th, 2018 at 5:25 PM ^
If you're going by resume how is a 13-0 team not ranked higher? UCF only strengthens my point. Different voters may use different criteria, certainly not just resume, which is in and of itself also not objective, but the bottom line is, if you rank a team ahead of another but don't actually think they are the better team, you shouldn't be ranking teams.
September 30th, 2018 at 3:35 PM ^
Says who? They are clearly not based on resume since they are largely affected by preseason rankings.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
There is a significant and relevant bias to rank teams you know above teams you don't know.
September 30th, 2018 at 3:41 PM ^
Why would you be positively biased toward think a team you have seen? Prior to last night and having seen PSU barely beat App St I would have ranked them lower than someone who had probably not watched them play, exactly opposite of your suggestion.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:09 PM ^
But this doesn't address the basic problem with the Coaches Poll, which is that it is the Sports Information Director Or Duly Authorized Representative Poll, and who knows what they've watched or even what they might be able to discern about teams. Nobody should care about this particular poll really.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Maybe. Do we wait until the 3rd quarter to start playing? Do we get 100 yards of penalties - some fair, some not - in the first half? Do our receivers drop easy catches and/or forget where they are on the field? These are important questions...
September 30th, 2018 at 2:14 PM ^
Do we run into stacked boxes every first down of the game? Inevitably setting up a 2nd and 8?
September 30th, 2018 at 2:47 PM ^
7 first down runs to finish the game. 3 total yards. 14 yards on those plays wouldve been a huge upgrade. We are going to get Pep’d sooner or later.
September 30th, 2018 at 3:26 PM ^
I guarantee we beat UK on grass of any color.
September 30th, 2018 at 6:36 PM ^
I'll be glad to take your money on that one. Kentucky ranked, on the road(neutral field) against UM. taking Wildcats all day long.
September 30th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
Probably, but you never know with Snell - from my hometown.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:39 PM ^
I meant to add this to the OP, but can't edit... Anyway, what do I win for posting this first? I get like a car or something, write? But a shitty car. A 1982 Ford Escort, right?
September 30th, 2018 at 1:42 PM ^
September 30th, 2018 at 1:43 PM ^
Did you lick the peanut butter seam on the extra 1/2 cup? Or was it just bitten in half?
September 30th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^
Why would you even ask that? Who the hell kicks the peanut butter side?
There’s no licking, just biting.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:44 PM ^
That’s what she said
”She” being your girlfriend
September 30th, 2018 at 1:44 PM ^
thinking this 1976 Ford Pinto is more likely.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
It doesn’t matter we play 3 ranked teams in a row coming up. That will tell you where this team really is
September 30th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^
Not sure how those team’s rankings will look after we beat them...
Each has a loss already, and either PSU or MSU will have at least two.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:43 PM ^
It doesn't matter what it is after we beat them...if that were the case nobody would ever move up unless they were playing a top ten team...
September 30th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
So, did the coaches watch or not watch the game this week?
September 30th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Michigan dropped, so....yes?
September 30th, 2018 at 1:46 PM ^
Unfortunately the coach’s son’s best friend’s cousin’s little sister who fills out the ranking only saw the first half because she had to take her late afternoon nap.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
Yes, they watched all 20 relevant games this week in the time their game ended and when their votes were due at 10 AM
James Franklin was so worried he took the 4th quarter to watch earlier games
September 30th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
If I we're a coach voting in the poll, I'd have a media assistant prepare a suggested ranking with the result of each game and a one or two sentence summary of info that might be useful to cite in interviews. Then I'd tweak the order to say it was my own.
Done. 5 minutes. And it's my own ranking.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
UK definitely deserves to be ranked ahead of Michigan right now.
I was hoping for a top 10 matchup vs Wisconsin but it doesn’t look like that can happen now.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:49 PM ^
Not so fast my friend! If we pummel Maryland (which I kind of expect, because we are playing at home) and a couple teams lose in front of us, I could see us creeping up to 10. Probably not, but maybe.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:48 PM ^
Notre Dame proved last night against #7 Stanford that they are legit CFP contender. We are ascending to that level. Gritty win overcoming some terrible penalties - both self inflicted and poor officiating - our defense led by Winovich gets the game ball. Plus without Shea we lose that game ... excellent in the clutch on the road. Go Blue !!!
September 30th, 2018 at 3:20 PM ^
Do you know for sure that we’re getting to that level? I don’t. Because last night I watched a team that went on the road and was beset with many of the same issues that it has had the last decade when it goes on the road to play a team not named Rutgers or Maryland.
All the talent is there to get to that level, and the team is definitely much better than it was last year, but it’s the same pattern every year when we hit the road. Close, ugly games against teams that Michigan should be beating comfortably.
If it wasn’t a trend I wouldn’t worry about it. Everyone has to win an ugly game at some point. But it happens all the time. I’m terrified of the MSU game. We start flat in that game and we’re going to get buried.
September 30th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
^^^ Boldly stated
September 30th, 2018 at 8:07 PM ^
Oh dear lord...you need to do a deep self-assessment. Exactly how many games...who has ND beaten on the road??? You pathological partisans are hopelessly pathetic.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:50 PM ^
Interestingly, we dropped a spot but had more points.
Ridiculous that the Coaches' Poll has Wisconsin so high, as the team that beat them got absolutely destroyed by Washington last night.
September 30th, 2018 at 1:52 PM ^
...and the team we beat by 3 and barely squeezed by...lost to Duke and Akron.
You know better....playing the transitive property game in college football is endless.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:05 PM ^
This isn't about transitivity. It's not like I'm arguing that we should be ranked ahead of Stanford because our game against Notre Dame was closer. Its that the team that beat Wisconsin was exposed as being not particularly good. Polls should have some basis in game results, and Wisconsin has played four unranked teams and lost to one of them at home. By the same token, Michigan State's loss to ASU looks worse now that they lost to San Diego St., and Virginia Tech's win over Florida State should now be largely meaningless, compared to how it seemed after week 1.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:53 PM ^
Virginia Techs loss to ODU pretty much settled all questions about their quality wins. They were an easy bet as the overreaction was crazy when it came to the line.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:37 PM ^
I agree Wisconsin is too high that's the only thing I disagree with on first glance.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:00 PM ^
Great place to be, now if we could only get pushed back to 18 next week.
September 30th, 2018 at 2:12 PM ^
Fair....it's the journey and how you end up
September 30th, 2018 at 2:20 PM ^
Swinney is on drugs. I see he voted for Clemson at #1 again.