(09-15-2021, 05:31 PM)needle Wrote: VERY FWIW: This attempt at rankings based solely on what teams have accomplished puts Kansas State as the No. 2 team in the nation.
Oregon ranked No. 1, Stanford No. 57 (behind SC, No. 54).
https://spoz851.wixsite.com/powerdigits/currentrankings
Interesting. Maybe there just aren't enough data points, but Iowa, as I mentioned above, is the only team to have beaten two Power 5 teams, and they were high quality wins versus Indiana and Iowa State. I have no idea how good or bad Stanford and USC really are, but Iowa should be way higher than #24.
And I'm pretty sure that when all is said and done, UT-San Antonio will not be the ninth-best college football team in America.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)