[stupac2]

To be fair, he didn't call Martyup stupid, he said ranking purely by losses is stupid. Which it is. That is an argument that everyone I know who is a Stanford fan (and I think everyone on this board) makes every year when we yell about cupcake schedules and how many power 5 teams we play and such.

Exactly, does literally anyone on this board think that ASU should be ranked right now? Or that Washington (or any other 4-0 team) should be above us? You can't just look at record, you have to look at everything else, and if you do that with Ole Miss then you realize that they're actually quite good and have just played a ridiculously hard schedule so far. Giving credit for that is the way it should work!

As for Georgia, they shouldn't have been ranked last week and shouldn't be ranked this week. I wasn't defending polls in general, there's a lot of problems with them, but if you're going to critique them then "this team has X losses, how are they ranked!!!" is just about the worst possible critique. It matters how and to whom they lost, or in Georgia's case won.

[stupac2]

To be fair, he didn't call Martyup stupid, he said ranking purely by losses is stupid. Which it is. That is an argument that everyone I know who is a Stanford fan (and I think everyone on this board) makes every year when we yell about cupcake schedules and how many power 5 teams we play and such.

Exactly, does literally anyone on this board think that ASU should be ranked right now? Or that Washington (or any other 4-0 team) should be above us? You can't just look at record, you have to look at everything else, and if you do that with Ole Miss then you realize that they're actually quite good and have just played a ridiculously hard schedule so far. Giving credit for that is the way it should work!

As for Georgia, they shouldn't have been ranked last week and shouldn't be ranked this week. I wasn't defending polls in general, there's a lot of problems with them, but if you're going to critique them then "this team has X losses, how are they ranked!!!" is just about the worst possible critique. It matters how and to whom they lost, or in Georgia's case won.