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re: How can anyone but A&M be #1 right now?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:14 am to AllBamaDoesIsWin
Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:14 am to AllBamaDoesIsWin
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The polls disagree. Fair system? Maybe not
it's not even about fair, it's about common sense.
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:15 am to harmonics
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I am pretty sure in time that Drac will hate A&M more than any other team in college football.
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If he doesn't hate them more than Alabama right now.... In this moment.... Then he never will.
this is football, not real life. I don't "hate" any team.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:15 am to ejohns74
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I think you could argue georgia at #1 as well
What argument could you make for UGA to be ranked ahead of A&M?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:42 am to RandySavage
the uga or a&m part of this argument really is neither here nor there. If you want to say uga is 1 and a&m is 2 that's fine.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 11:56 am to beaver
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because no one knows how good USC was
well then there shouldn't be any rankings at all
Posted on 9/3/14 at 12:24 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Only one game but so far commentators looking stupid.
We shouldn't be suprised Finebaum looks dumb. The only sport he has ever played is pocket pool.
We shouldn't be suprised Finebaum looks dumb. The only sport he has ever played is pocket pool.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 12:25 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 9/3/14 at 12:54 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Why is Kenny Hill now nicknamed after the chick from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 12:57 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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this is football, not real life. I don't "hate" any team.
It blends in to real life. Our fans are real people who you will undoubtedly encounter after we lay a beat down to LSU(this day is coming whether you like it or not everyone lays a beat down every now and then) and you will probably handle it worse than any person on the planet.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:09 pm to StopRobot
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Because there are two schools of thought when it comes to polls. 1. Going strictly by how the teams are currently playing 2. Basing you poll on how you feel a team should be ranked and/or where they will end up at the end of the season Clearly you go by #1 but #2 is also a valid method.
I disagree with you on #2. Basing your poll on where you think they will end up is not a valid method. You end up rewarding teams for playing a weak schedule and penalizing teams for playing a tough one.
For instance, let's say you think a team is really good but they play a really tough schedule, and you think another team is not as good but they play a really weak schedule. You can predict that the better team will have a lesser record because of their schedule, then you rank them lower even though you think they are better. So you have already penalized them for losing games they haven't even played yet. Then, as the season plays out, if they actually do lose some of those games, you drop them even further because they lost, effectively penalizing them twice for each loss.
The only valid way to rank teams is to put them in order of how good you think they are, then adjust your rankings (or not) based on performance that deviates from (or confirms) your expectations of how good they are. A team's quality, in your estimation, should move up or down only if they perform better or worse than you thought they should. And it should stay the same if they perform the same as you thought. I say "quality" here instead of ranking because it is inherent in the concept of ranking that teams can move up or down without doing anything good or bad because of what other teams do.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:11 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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the uga or a&m part of this argument really is neither here nor there.
Sure it is. If you are going to put UGA ahead of A&M based on week 1 please tell me what led you to that conclusion? Did you actually watch the majority of the games?
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:15 pm to StopRobot
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Because there are two schools of thought when it comes to polls. 1. Going strictly by how the teams are currently playing 2. Basing you poll on how you feel a team should be ranked and/or where they will end up at the end of the season Clearly you go by #1 but #2 is also a valid method.
Aren't these methods somewhat related? If a team is currently playing well, you would also think they will finish well and be in a high rank at the end of the season.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:18 pm to RandySavage
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What argument could you make for UGA to be ranked ahead of A&M?
Todd Gurley
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:27 pm to Prettyboy Floyd
Kenny Hill > Todd Gurley based on week 1.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:56 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Everyone needs to pump the brakes on the UGA hype train.
Until proven otherwise we're a one dimensional team with a suspect secondary.
Until proven otherwise we're a one dimensional team with a suspect secondary.
Posted on 9/3/14 at 1:58 pm to Draconian Sanctions
Because UGA and LSU have better wins than them after watching the games.
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