[pincemob]

It's great to be ranked.  You get more scores/updates across the various tickers and a lot more attention.

Here's why else it matters:  Week 3 College Gameday at Stanford!    USC starts with Hawaii and Syracuse.. I don't see either of those games bringing ESPN to town.    After us, USC doesn't play anyone until week 10 (Oregon).  You think ESPN will wait until week 10 to show the #1 team?  Our competition that week would be Alabama at Arkansas, except Gameday is doing the Alabama-Michigan game in Week 1.  I don't see them doing 2 Bama games before an SC game.  There are no other ranked vs. ranked matchups that week.. the sleeper is Michigan State - ND.  But Sparty could lose week 1 to Boise and ND could lose to Navy and Purdue.. not very appealing even if the game is on ABC

 

[pincemob]

It's great to be ranked.  You get more scores/updates across the various tickers and a lot more attention.

Here's why else it matters:  Week 3 College Gameday at Stanford!    USC starts with Hawaii and Syracuse.. I don't see either of those games bringing ESPN to town.    After us, USC doesn't play anyone until week 10 (Oregon).  You think ESPN will wait until week 10 to show the #1 team?  Our competition that week would be Alabama at Arkansas, except Gameday is doing the Alabama-Michigan game in Week 1.  I don't see them doing 2 Bama games before an SC game.  There are no other ranked vs. ranked matchups that week.. the sleeper is Michigan State - ND.  But Sparty could lose week 1 to Boise and ND could lose to Navy and Purdue.. not very appealing even if the game is on ABC