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re: UGA/Clemson Poll Problem
Posted on 9/6/13 at 6:09 am to MizzouTigers20
Posted on 9/6/13 at 6:09 am to MizzouTigers20
I think it’s simple, If you lose, you’re going to fall. Do I think UGA is better than some of the teams ahead of them? Absolutely, but they are 0-1. Think of it more like a power ranking until week 8, nothing more.
How far a team should fall after a loss to a good team is subjective, it’s an art not a science.
How far a team should fall after a loss to a good team is subjective, it’s an art not a science.
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Posted on 9/6/13 at 6:57 am to Garfield
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They shouldn't even have polls till at least October.
Meaningless at this point.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 8:21 am to austingator
Once again the SECr surprises me. By now, I thought at least one of you would say that UGA deserves to fall out of the top 25 completely after losing to an ACC team.
Seemed like a softball question, honestly.
Seemed like a softball question, honestly.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 8:30 am to MizzouTigers20
The 6th best team in the country could be 0-5 if they played the top 5 teams. The polls don't try to rank teams by their talent level. They just stick to moving them up and down based on the outcome of that week's game and what teams near them in the rankings did
Posted on 9/6/13 at 9:02 am to MizzouTigers20
What the pollsters take into consideration, correctly or not, is future schedules after the game and where they predict a team to finish given said future schedules.
Clemson has only FSU and SCAR remaining on their schedule.
UGA still has SCAR, LSU, Florida and the rest of their SEC schedule to worry with.
Thus the disparity in last week's rankings and it even explains, to some degree, why they jumped Clemson over SCAR at this point.
None of it matters where SCAR, UGA and Clemson are concerned, not at the moment anyways, because we all three play one another and it will eventually come-out in the wash.
Clemson has only FSU and SCAR remaining on their schedule.
UGA still has SCAR, LSU, Florida and the rest of their SEC schedule to worry with.
Thus the disparity in last week's rankings and it even explains, to some degree, why they jumped Clemson over SCAR at this point.
None of it matters where SCAR, UGA and Clemson are concerned, not at the moment anyways, because we all three play one another and it will eventually come-out in the wash.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 9:10 am to scrooster
polling is subjective w/ bias.... clemson-uga had 4 hours on gameday and the abc primetime slot on the opening weekend. clemson had the highest quality win. the average pollster can be swayed by offense. no one mentions that UGA had about 150 yards more than their 2012 game average, and was only 40 yard shy of what WVU achieved when they scored 70 on Clemson in the Orange Bowl. clemson's defense isn't top 10 material.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 9:22 am to MizzouTigers20
Post more. We need more good Mizzou posters around here. 
Posted on 9/6/13 at 9:29 am to MizzouTigers20
According to Herbie losing teams will be "rewarded" for losing close games to quality OOC teams on the road. Hell of a reward dropping half way down the polls while everybody else plays directional schools and chills. I guess we'll see next year if he's right.
Tim Brando on the radio this morning now asking if we can say the ACC has overtaken the SEC if Miami beats Florida. Gotta love week 1 overreaction.
Home field advantage is worth 3 pts in Vegas. The botched snap was the difference in the game. Those teams are essentially mirror images. Georgia was #5 and Clemson was #8. They should have just swapped places.
Tim Brando on the radio this morning now asking if we can say the ACC has overtaken the SEC if Miami beats Florida. Gotta love week 1 overreaction.
Home field advantage is worth 3 pts in Vegas. The botched snap was the difference in the game. Those teams are essentially mirror images. Georgia was #5 and Clemson was #8. They should have just swapped places.
Posted on 9/6/13 at 9:32 am to MizzouTigers20
Not really, if they win this week they will be back in the top 10 even with that Clemson loss
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