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Posted on 11/13/25 at 7:21 am to Wildcat1996
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And throughout history. Teams are who they are when you play them and have been forever.
Eh... no. Schools are who the are at the moment a conversation is happening, not when you played them.
Not sure where you get this idea.
Otherwise two teams can play the same opponent and one can talk about them as being ranked because they played them when they were over ranked early and the other can't because they beat them after everyone realized they sucked.
Do you seriously think you get credit for beating a ranked team when beating LSU where Bama doesn't considering they beat the same team? In what universe does that make sense.
Both A&M and Bama beat LSU. LSU is not currently ranked.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 7:28 am to AggieArchitect2004
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So in YOUR world a team that beats a team and drops them out of the rankings only means that the team was overrated…
And if a team has done that several times in a season it only means those teams were overrated…
This explains why ranked wins are a big deal.
Since the team has to either remain ranked after you beat them or climb back into the rankings after you beat them, it makes wins against teams that are ranked by season's end hard to get.
If they're overrated, they don't climb back into the rankings.
If you measure at the time of the game you get odd scenarios where a team beats a team early and then later on they get ranked.... or you get the reverse and a team beats a "ranked" team early who then goes 4-8.
Both Bama and A&M beat LSU.
That win will count as a ranked win for both or an unranked win for both. But they both get the same sort of credit for the game (barring a slight home/away difference if applicable). It's insane for one to be able to say "we beat a top 20 team!" and the other to say "We beat an unranked team."
You both beat LSU. It counts the same.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 7:35 am to DawginSC
Nonsense.
When you look at Elko's, Saban's, Smart's...or anyone else's record vs. the top 25 or 10 or whatever, it will list the games/teams as ranked at the time that they played.
If UGA wins a bowl game against 8th ranked OSU at the end of the year and OSU finishes 12th in the final poll, they don't take that top 10 win away from Kirby. tu is #10. After you curb stomp them this weekend and they fall to 15 or 16, do you think the record book will show that you didn't beat a top 10 team? Log-on to ESPN and look at UGA's schedule. Their wins over Alabama and UT are listed as #17 & #15, respectively, even though those teams are currently #4 and #23.
When you look at Elko's, Saban's, Smart's...or anyone else's record vs. the top 25 or 10 or whatever, it will list the games/teams as ranked at the time that they played.
If UGA wins a bowl game against 8th ranked OSU at the end of the year and OSU finishes 12th in the final poll, they don't take that top 10 win away from Kirby. tu is #10. After you curb stomp them this weekend and they fall to 15 or 16, do you think the record book will show that you didn't beat a top 10 team? Log-on to ESPN and look at UGA's schedule. Their wins over Alabama and UT are listed as #17 & #15, respectively, even though those teams are currently #4 and #23.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 7:54 am to DawginSC
Isn’t strength of schedule part of the week to week rankings?
How can that even be fairly evaluated if the criteria is based on the rankings in the first place…but yet those rankings really don’t matter because sometime into the future a team could become unranked.
Nevermind the “Haley Sawyer Effect” where a voter moves a ranked team UP in the rankings after losing to an unranked team. We knew the AP ballot was bad, but that was egregious.
How can that even be fairly evaluated if the criteria is based on the rankings in the first place…but yet those rankings really don’t matter because sometime into the future a team could become unranked.
Nevermind the “Haley Sawyer Effect” where a voter moves a ranked team UP in the rankings after losing to an unranked team. We knew the AP ballot was bad, but that was egregious.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 8:24 am to 49 to nada
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What is a "Texas Aggie"? I looked and can't find a group with that name on campus, sanctioned or otherwise.
There is Texas Agricultural and Maintenance (Aggies) and then there is Texas. The two are not the same.
Oh boy. This is one of the standard whorn arguments. But, really, y'all aren't this dumb. You're just being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse.
Here's a picture. Worth at least 900 words, maybe more.
That was in our end zones for decades.
If you cannot understand, set down the bong, clear your head, and try to think.
In spite of this response, I fully expect whorns to keep trotting out this old (weak) argument about Texas Aggies.
Please stop. It makes you look moronic to claim you cannot understand.
HTH
Posted on 11/13/25 at 8:31 am to 49 to nada
Here is a pic of Paul "Bear" Bryant wearing a jacket from the 1950's.
Sorry to make you look stupid. Again.
Sorry to make you look stupid. Again.
Posted on 11/13/25 at 8:52 am to Wildcat1996
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ranked at the time that they played
Do you think teams who beat penn state, clemson or miami early in the season should get credit for top 5 wins when we're doing the final playoff rankings?
Posted on 11/13/25 at 8:54 am to BuckeyeGoon
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Do you think teams who beat penn state, clemson or miami early in the season should get credit for top 5 wins when we're doing the final playoff rankings?
One of these three is not like the others
Posted on 11/13/25 at 10:59 am to Buster83
So a&m has had an inferiority complex ever since the 50s?
That was not the gotcha you think it was
That was not the gotcha you think it was
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