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[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=13823.msg144737#msg144737 date=1448861055]
I'd be interested to see Oregon play UDFG.

But I agree that body of work, including the last game (Stanford beating a top-10 team, Oregon State hanging in there with Oregon), probably would push Stanford above Oregon, especially given the tight margin in the head-to-head matchup.

BC

In defense of my rankings, these are power rankings (i.e. who's hot right now), and that excludes body-of-work evaluations.  Oregon won the head-to-head, unfortunately.
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Your rankings are perfectly defensible.  Oregon with Adams is clearly a different team than without, and they are playing much better than they were.  But despite a very good game against Stanford and a great game against USC, they did put up a mediocre effort against OSU while we were beating a top-10 team.  They were just lucky to be playing the worst team in the conference.  They won head to head, and that counts.  But while the better team won that day, it was a close and hard fought game that reasonably could have gone either way.  Which is to say I can make a defensible case for Stanford being ahead of them.

BC

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[quote author=Boston Card link=topic=13823.msg144737#msg144737 date=1448861055]
I'd be interested to see Oregon play UDFG.

But I agree that body of work, including the last game (Stanford beating a top-10 team, Oregon State hanging in there with Oregon), probably would push Stanford above Oregon, especially given the tight margin in the head-to-head matchup.

BC

In defense of my rankings, these are power rankings (i.e. who's hot right now), and that excludes body-of-work evaluations.  Oregon won the head-to-head, unfortunately.
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Your rankings are perfectly defensible.  Oregon with Adams is clearly a different team than without, and they are playing much better than they were.  But despite a very good game against Stanford and a great game against USC, they did put up a mediocre effort against OSU while we were beating a top-10 team.  They were just lucky to be playing the worst team in the conference.  They won head to head, and that counts.  But while the better team won that day, it was a close and hard fought game that reasonably could have gone either way.  Which is to say I can make a defensible case for Stanford being ahead of them.

BC