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Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - washingtonismoney - 09-25-2011
According to Bruce Feldman's twitter. We dropped an undetermined number of spots in the AP poll due to OK State's win over A&M (wonder how many Aggie Squeezes there were last night?)
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - bulldogbigred - 09-25-2011
We are #6 in the AP and only separated by four points. Ok State has a bye next week and if we take care of business, we will probably flip flop with them.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - yvonne - 09-25-2011
and here's a run-down of the AP Ballots
http://pollspeak.com/index.php?option=com_psreport&r=F&s=17&p=36&Itemid=3
Ratto is getting less extreme.
Guess who voted us the lowest?
Be sure to vote for good and bad voter of the week!
Re: Couple AP Voters Hatin' on the homies - unclechuck - 09-25-2011
Wilner - Cardinal 9, Ducks 8
http://tinyurl.com/AP4Wilner
Portland Oregonian's John Hunt - Cardinal 6, Ducks 10
http://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/index.ssf/2011/09/john_hunts_ap_ballot_lsu_tight.html
Both give a lot of love to OK State. TAMU has beaten Idaho and SMU; so big whoop to beating them.
Tight use of the transitive property with Arizona shows similar comfortable victories but ours was @ AZ with Juron Criner (less than 100%); OSU's at home without him.
Our win clearly more impressive hence a #5 ranking readily defensible.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - OutsiderFan - 09-25-2011
Passing Boise State in the Coaches Poll during a bye week when Boise State played, is pretty brobdingnagian, IMO. Â
Thank, God Wilner isn't a coach - Redrum - 09-25-2011
Although....come to think of it, maybe it would be a good thing (for his growth as a person, not for his players or fans) if he WERE a coach and got his a** ground to peanut butter for a few weeks in a row. Might give him more respect for winning streaks and how hard it is to be good.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - washingtonismoney - 09-25-2011
Well, Wilner's a boob but many of his ratings are at least somewhat defensible, except rating Oregon over Stanford. Both resumes feature wins over weakish teams. One resume has multiple road wins; the other does not. That other resume also has a loss on it. Somehow Wilner decides--despite his alleged emphasis on resume, resume, resume--that the other resume is better than Stanford's.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - Farm93 - 09-25-2011
(09-25-2011, 06:49 PM)garvin link Wrote:Sorry to raise a dissident voice, but after watching a good chunk of the Oregon-Arizona game, I think the Ducks would beat us if the game were played next week. (November is a long way off, with lots of time for injuries, experience and change of fortunes to affect things.) As for our winning streak, most of it was achieved last year, with significantly different players and coaches. It doesn't have a damn thing to do with how good we are right now.
I have no problem with Wilner putting Oregon ahead of Stanford. Oregon's only loss was to a team that has made all of their opponents look pathetic. And some of their opponents have been some of the highest ranked teams in the land. Also Wilner seems almost intentionally terrible at this ranking thing, so fine.
I think the Ducks' O is better than Stanford's O at the moment. But a few thoughts come to mind on this one. The Ducks QB is taking a beating that I don't recall happened with this regularity last year. And the guy is rather fragile looking. My guess is that he might not be quite as crisp by mid-November.
And I am rather certain that Stanford's D is better than Oregon's D. Admittedly, the Skov impact might alter that perception in the next few weeks. Stanford's special teams are better, for sure. If the game was in Oregon, I would sadly believe the Ducks would find the way. And I believe they would be favored.Â
But Sagarin's Predictor rankings suggest that Stanford would be a very slight favorite in a neutral venue today. Stanford is helped by SJSU's decent showings since the Stanford loss and Duke's amazing play in the ACC. Meanwhile, Oregon has a loss to perhaps the best team in the NCAA, a couple of cupcake wins and a win (by a smaller margin) to a common opponent.
In the end it is early, but it does appear that the Pac-12 North & ultimately the Pac-12 Champion will likely be decided on November 12th. If Stanford was not a smallish private school in the West Gameday would be comin' to our city.
Stanford has opened as a 22 point favorite against UCLA. So I guess Vegas odds makers are thinking the 2011 team is doing just fine.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - jayasena - 09-25-2011
Meh... don't really care what the exact ranking is at this point as long as we are somewhere in the top 10 (and therefore not out of sight).
All I want for now is for us to keep winning and for other undefeated teams to lose...
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - FarmBoy - 09-25-2011
Unfortunately, rankings now are important for setting the tone for how we'll be ranked should (god forbid) we lose a game or two. If we want to keep in the BCS picture, outside of winning the Pac12, then we're going to need to be respected nationally. That being said, being in the top 6 is a-okay by me. I am of the mind set that we have a long way to go.
Some of the readers of of his blog have found some interesting inconsistencies in Wilner's logic. I thought the UGA vs GTech disparity was especially interesting:
"So Arkansas goes on the road to the number 3 team in the nation and loses and that drops them out of the top 25 from 14th? A&M loses to the number 7 team at home, and you drop them 3 spots."
" Oregons wins: Nevada, Missouri State (!), at Arizona
Stanfords wins: SJSU, at Duke, at Arizona
That quality shellacking on a neutral field makes all the difference! "
"So U[sic]GA got steam rolled by Boise State and lost a game to a terrible looking USC team in week two and then go on to win their next two cupcake games and theyre ranked? How to logic that when Georgia Tech is undefeated. In week 3 Georgia Tech DESTROYED AQ opponent in week 3 and beat out undefeated UNC. "
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - yvonne - 09-25-2011
Only the coaches' poll rankings count in the BCS standings.
Re: Looks like we're #4 in the coaches' poll now - FarmBoy - 09-25-2011
And the Harris.
My point wasn't that the AP poll rankings matter, but rankings in general. However, I suspect that there's a non-negligible amount of influence across rankings. They're too similar for there to not be some cross-pollination.