re: Why is Ole Miss Ranked in the Top 10?

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Chavis can stop the greatest offensive player in the history of college football but throw a bubble screen at him and he loses his mind.

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RB's are the weakest position you have IMO. Your team's good but I'm not convinced they're SEC caliber backs.

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It's more so our o line. We aren't opening holes even against bad teams. Every yard our backs have is 99% on them.

We don't have a prototypical Bama style back, but ours fit the system we run.

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Typical Ole Miss. Ask a question and they have to deflect because they don't have the ability to answer.

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Lol, I answered and you chose to ignore. Typical A&M fans.

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If he's throwing at 75% he'd be smart not running and taking the hits from alabama but I suppose you have to do it a few times so the defense has it in the back of their minds though.

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I imagine Bo hasn't run because we haven't needed him too.

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Cause they are one of the 10 best teams in all of Division I college football.. Next question ?

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ITT we see yet again that an odd amount of people on an SEC message board do not watch SEC games besides their own, don't know about their conference opponents current teams or stats, and make broad based assumptions similar to PAC and Big 12 fans talking shite about the SEC based on past results and a lack of common football knowledge.

Ive never seen this thread before, thank god you brought it to everyones attention

Because this got skipped in the middle school short dick measuring contest the thread became.



I'd agree that they got this way because other teams have lost allowing them to move up by default, but if you take a look at almost any objective rating system this year you will see Ole Miss in the Top 15 and usually the Top 10.


Examples include ESPN FPI, Warren Nolan NPI, Football Outsiders' F+ to name a few. These systems try to really pick apart games that have been played and go as far as analyzing each individual play to compute how good and complete a team is.

If you look at OM's results, sure they haven't played a top tier team yet but the results of who they have played have been pretty stellar as far as complete games and results go. And the competition is better than just beating up on 3 patsies. Granted it was last year, but the teams they have beaten were all bowl teams last year and projected to do well this year (looking doubtful for Vandy). In fact, Boise State may end up running the table and if it weren't for Ole Miss beating them, they'd likely steal one of the 4 playoff spots at the end of the year so we have them to thank for that.

Football Outsiders F+:

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Rk Team Record F/+ Last Wk Change S&P+ Rk FEI Rk
1 Florida State 2-0 32.7% 1 0 270.4 1 0.307 2
2 Oregon 3-0 28.5% 2 0 254.4 3 0.314 1
3 Alabama 3-0 27.4% 3 0 263.4 2 0.231 8
4 Stanford 2-1 22.4% 5 1 242.3 8 0.253 4
5 Oklahoma 3-0 22.0% 4 -1 244.9 4 0.226 10
6 Ole Miss 3-0 21.6% 16 10 242.1 9 0.235 7
7 Auburn 2-0 21.5% 7 0 244.2 5 0.218 12
8 Michigan State 1-1 20.8% 11 3 243.1 7 0.210 14
9 Texas A&M 3-0 20.8% 8 -1 240.7 10 0.224 11
10 LSU 3-0 20.2% 9 -1 235.1 14 0.247 5


Warren Nolan NPI:

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Records include games against Division I opponents only.
Record Nolan Power Index Strength of Schedule Polls
Team W L Win Pct Rank NPI Rank SOS Rank AP Coaches
Auburn 3 0 1.0000 1 122.33 1 0.9167 2 5 5
Oklahoma 3 0 1.0000 1 122.06 2 0.7778 18 4 4
Ole Miss 3 0 1.0000 1 117.98 3 0.6296 48 10 12
Pittsburgh 3 0 1.0000 1 116.13 4 0.7593 19 33 43
Mississippi State 3 0 1.0000 1 115.94 5 0.7222 25 27 27
UCLA 3 0 1.0000 1 113.91 6 0.8148 11 12 10
BYU 3 0 1.0000 1 112.43 7 0.5185 81 21 23
Alabama 3 0 1.0000 1 111.69 8 0.7037 31 3 2
Syracuse 2 0 1.0000 1 111.22 9 0.9444 1
Texas A&M 3 0 1.0000 1 110.94 10 0.7222 25 6 7


ESPN's FPI:

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RK TEAM W-L PROJ W-L WIN OUT% CONF WIN% REM SOS RK FPI
1 Florida State, ACC 2-0 11.1 - 1.6 15.1 61.9 38 25.6
2 Auburn, SEC 3-0 9.2 - 3.0 1.3 14.9 9 25.2
3 Alabama, SEC 3-0 9.4 - 2.9 2.1 16.3 2 25.0
4 Oregon, Pac-12 3-0 10.8 - 2.0 9.4 56.1 18 25.0
5 Texas A&M, SEC 3-0 9.5 - 2.7 2.1 15.8 14 24.9
6 Oklahoma, Big 12 3-0 10.5 - 1.5 18.5 53.6 41 24.4
7 Baylor, Big 12 3-0 10.1 - 1.9 9.1 33.7 42 22.5
8 Ole Miss, SEC 3-0 9.1 - 3.1 1.1 11.3 11 22.5
9 Georgia, SEC 1-1 9.0 - 3.3 3.2 12.4 52 21.8
10 LSU, SEC 3-0 7.9 - 4.1 0.1 3.0 3 19.3

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