Week Eleven Polls Are Out

Toledo has one loss to a previously ranked Arizona team (in OT), and clearly the MAC is fairly solid seeing as two other teams from the conference are ahead of Michigan in the poll (NIU and Kent State).

Ah the classic "We're a bigger school, why aren't we ranked higher!" Argument. Works if you want to ignore resume's, sounds stupid any other time

but Toledo, Kent State, and Northern Illinois would be lucky to come within 20 points of us. NIU has beaten no one, and Toledo and Kent each have one win over an overrated Big East team. Kent also lost by 33 to Kentucky, whose only competition for "worst team in a BCS conference" is Colorado.

Besides maybe NTMSU (i.e. the SEC version of MSU) and Texas seeming to be ranked too high, I cannot really complain about this too much besides the usual Ess Eee Cee self-fulfilling prophecy at the top of the poll (i.e. highly ranked SEC teams beat each other and nobody moves much because OMG-SEC!).  I think the NTMSU issue will play out on the field a la West Virginia, and Texas is irrelevant to what Michigan wants to do.

If Michigan takes care of its business from here on out and takes down OSU,  I really don't care what the rankings are until after the B1G championship game.

BIG TEEHHNNNN

Yes, UM does not have any good wins...neither does USC, but they are still ranked. USC's three losses are to the #2 ranked team (at home), #16 ranked team (on the road) and an unranked team (on the road) while their best win this season is over 5-4 Washington in a game where Washington was -3 in TO margin. I am NOT arguing for UM to be included in the polls btw, I am just disgusted to see USC still ranked.

Because we have three losses and no big wins. Texas has two losses. There's only one 3-loss team in the rankings, and they're at 25. So that's why we're not ranked.

Nobody here has any reason to bitch about our place in the polls, considering that we've beaten:

5-4 Air Force (who lost to Army, who lost to EMU)

0-9 UMass

3-6 Purdue

2-7 Illinois

5-5 MSU (could very easily be either 3-7 or 9-1)

5-4 Minnesota

IMHO, our only real valuable win was our least convincing, against MSU.

Texas has baffled me all year.

The Big 12's second tier teams (Texas, T. Tech, Ok St, TCU, WVU, maybe Iowa St) have basically just beaten up on each other. None have seriously threatened Oklahoma or K-St. Texas actually has the best case of any of them. They destroyed Ole Miss on the road, and apart from disintegrating against Oklahoma their only loss is by 3 to WVU.

Seems like people don't even care how teams win or why teams may lose.

In the pre-game analysis of the Neb-MSU game yesterday I think it was Jesse Palmer who was praising Neb for limiting Michigan's offense to so many rushing yards and creating 3 interceptions.  No further clarifications given by Palmer or rebuttal from the other person on camera.

That doesn't make any sense to me either, and neither does USC still being ranked and South Carolina at #12.

Man with that logic, ND would be #1 if every team on their schedule didn't take a dump in their pants this year.

Of course they see W/L, thats indicator #1.  Then they see OMGZ OREGON LIT IT UP WITH 60 POINTS ON USC!  Failing to also mention that USC hung 50+ on that same Oregon team.  When Oregons coach is saying his key to victory was "to hold serve." (Actual Kelly quote), you have to wonder how the "team" would make out against a real defense.

You can chide ND all you want.  But all those breaks you guys got last year as you rolled to your magical Sugar Bowl victory, are falling on ND now.  Defense wins championships, Basketfootball does not.  Oregons recent BCS failures indicate this with scores of 22-19 and 26-17, both losses to good defenses.

but Michigan did start the year at #8 and with anyone else's schedule from the Big Ten along with a healthy Denard we may just be in the Top 5.

Is a better conference than B1G. UCLA a mediocre team killed Nebraska, a team that may win the B1G. B1g best win is MSU win over a mediocre BSU that is clearly rebuilding. I am willing to bet that Oregon, USC, Oregon State and Stanford would go undefeated in B1G conference schedule because iB1G is a bad conference. You are overrating B1G that you can't see how we'll Pac 12 have been playing this year.