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Kind of along fall for the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends, considering that they barely lost, on the road, against a pretty good and highly rated Clemson team. Not that it doesn't serve justice in a broader sense.

Not really such a fall, at least by poll-logic.

In poll-logic teams are grouped primarily by number of losses, though there are exceptions. So, the top group on the poll is made up of 12 teams that people generally believe in that haven't lost; plus Alabama who most southern writers don't think has a real loss - it was some sort of weird practice thing against another great S.E.C. team. [And to be fair, if any team does deserve the benefit of the doubt it's likely Alabama.]

Next come the one loss teams that folks generally believe in. Ole Miss is first because a) they're in the S.E.C., and b) they beat Alabama which doesn't even have a (real) loss.
Second in that group is und. So that's pretty high, especially because they lost to a team that isn't even in the S.E.C..

After this group come the teams that haven't loss yet that nobody really believes in, but they haven't lost so the pollsters feel obligated to include them somewhere - because after all the main criterion is number of losses. So that's Oklahoma State, Iowa, c.a.l., Toledo - I mean who believes any of those are really one of the top 25 teams in the country?

Boise at 25 is in rather a group of its own. A one loss team that the pollsters generally believe in - but it's not Power 5 so they can't be listed too high, and certainly not above the loss-less teams.

[CTcard]

Kind of along fall for the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends, considering that they barely lost, on the road, against a pretty good and highly rated Clemson team. Not that it doesn't serve justice in a broader sense.

Not really such a fall, at least by poll-logic.

In poll-logic teams are grouped primarily by number of losses, though there are exceptions. So, the top group on the poll is made up of 12 teams that people generally believe in that haven't lost; plus Alabama who most southern writers don't think has a real loss - it was some sort of weird practice thing against another great S.E.C. team. [And to be fair, if any team does deserve the benefit of the doubt it's likely Alabama.]

Next come the one loss teams that folks generally believe in. Ole Miss is first because a) they're in the S.E.C., and b) they beat Alabama which doesn't even have a (real) loss.
Second in that group is und. So that's pretty high, especially because they lost to a team that isn't even in the S.E.C..

After this group come the teams that haven't loss yet that nobody really believes in, but they haven't lost so the pollsters feel obligated to include them somewhere - because after all the main criterion is number of losses. So that's Oklahoma State, Iowa, c.a.l., Toledo - I mean who believes any of those are really one of the top 25 teams in the country?

Boise at 25 is in rather a group of its own. A one loss team that the pollsters generally believe in - but it's not Power 5 so they can't be listed too high, and certainly not above the loss-less teams.