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Crazy stat on basketball vs. football AP rankings....

Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:11 am
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
9073 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:11 am
Total number of schools that have been No. 1 in AP poll in football 2016-22: 4.
(UGA, Bama, Clem, LSU).

Total number of schools that have been No. 1 in AP poll in men's basketball 2017-23: 15.
(UNC, UH, Purdue, Bama, Baylor, Duke, Aub, Mich St, UK, Lville, KU, Tenn, Nova, UVA)
Posted by auzach91
Marietta, GA
Member since Jan 2009
40275 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:20 am to
Crazy
Posted by Warwick
Member since May 2022
1082 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:24 am to
theres like 3x as many hoops teams and 3x as many games too. not that crazy
Posted by Aguga
Southeast
Member since Aug 2021
2027 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:25 am to
Football is a gentlemen’s game, basketball… well not so much.
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
54973 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:27 am to
Crazy is how UGA WBB can be good and UGA MBB can be so bad.
Posted by Krampus
Member since Nov 2018
5207 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:29 am to
College football is a broken sport. Most of the country outside the southeast and a couple states in the midwest is tuning out.
Posted by jsmoove
Member since Oct 2010
12627 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:29 am to
There's nothing gentleman about Georgia and Clemson's schedules, and there's only one game a week.
Posted by Thumpa15
Alabama
Member since Oct 2019
827 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:33 am to
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Football is a gentlemen’s game, basketball… well not so much.


Translation: UGA is irrelevant in all major sports outside of football.
Posted by Warwick
Member since May 2022
1082 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:33 am to
i dont think that makes it broken. the coastal and northern states have always been more about professional sports
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
9073 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:33 am to
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theres like 3x as many hoops teams and 3x as many games too. not that crazy



I'd direct you to the eighties and nineties football polls if you don't think it's pretty strange to see only four teams ranked one over a seven year period.

Consider how good Ohio State and Oklahoma have been in that time period but never ranked even for one week at the top.
This post was edited on 2/16/23 at 11:35 am
Posted by koreandawg
South Korea
Member since Sep 2015
9073 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:37 am to
I can't speak for Clemson. But the SEC made us do an Auburn non conference schedule (3 cupcakes and a Power 5)
quote:

There's nothing gentleman about Georgia and Clemson's schedules
. It sucks, but it is what it is.
Posted by Ping Pong
LSU and UVA alum
Member since Aug 2014
5361 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:38 am to
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Total number of schools that have been No. 1 in AP poll in football 2016-22: 4.
(UGA, Bama, Clem, LSU).


I didn't realize it had gotten this bad. The lack of movement among the top 5 of the past 8-10 years has definitely has made college football a little less exciting.

The last 6 AP polls of the 2007 season had 4 different teams at #1, the same amount as the past 8 seasons combined. There's hope we will see more upsets with conference expansion and the SEC possibly going to 9 conference games a year, but NIL is only making the rich richer.
Posted by Krampus
Member since Nov 2018
5207 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:40 am to
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i dont think that makes it broken. the coastal and northern states have always been more about professional sports


It's broken because there are no effective rules or controls on how a program should compete, no parity of scheduling, no sensible differentiating in divisions at the D1 level (should be split into 2 or even 3 divisions with seperate titles), and no legitimate postseason.

Sports have defined rules and teams know what they have to do to win. College football has "committees" that use select individuals' personal opinions to determine the postseason. That's not a sport, it's an event.
Posted by Warwick
Member since May 2022
1082 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:54 am to
you make a good argument for the 4 super conferences. i personally like the regionality of it now, but thats cause it favors the south
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
Member since Oct 2013
67515 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 11:55 am to
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Crazy is how UGA WBB can be good and UGA MBB can be so bad.

People with penises playing on both teams
Posted by Krampus
Member since Nov 2018
5207 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:02 pm to
If 4 superconferences has come to be a decade ago, I think college football may have thrived. I think it's too late now.

Reorganizing the conferences, plus NIL, plus transfer portal is too much change, too fast, at a time when most of the country has already lost interest.

This has NASCAR circa 2005 written all over it. Too many changes that alter what made the game fun in the first place at a time when broad interest is already waning.
Posted by skrayper
21-0 Asterisk Drive
Member since Nov 2012
30985 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:06 pm to
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Total number of schools that have been No. 1 in AP poll in men's basketball 2017-23: 15.
(UNC, UH, Purdue, Bama, Baylor, Duke, Aub, Mich St, UK, Lville, KU, Tenn, Nova, UVA)


Partly because they will drop teams in basketball after a loss, much like in football - only losses in basketball are much more common.
Posted by Warwick
Member since May 2022
1082 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:08 pm to
you make good points. i think the pay for play is killing the interest even for fans of teams that stand to gain the most.
Posted by BurntOrangeMan
Dallas TX
Member since May 2021
5628 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:11 pm to
- Top hoops programs will play vs a nationally ranked opponent as many times as a football team plays total games.

- Hoops plays a deep cross country P5 non conference schedule

- Hoops plays 40 games a season vs 16.

- Hoops is a national college sport, football is southern regions with an outlier (ND, UM, tOSU).. more diversity/balance.



Posted by Wallacewade04
Valhalla
Member since Dec 2011
2780 posts
Posted on 2/16/23 at 12:11 pm to
quote:

Football is a gentlemen’s game, basketball… well not so much.


There's a lot of stupid shite put on this board but this somehow manages to rise to the top
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