[oldalum]

While Stanford passes the eye test, our resume was extremely poor until the win over Virginia. We had lost to #26 UCLA, drawn with #29 Clemson, and our best win was against #41 St Mary's. Our schedule has kind of collapsed as Santa Clara isn't as strong as usual, USC has been in free fall, and we just didn't have the quality wins. Despite our relatively high RPI and our eye test, I'm not sure I could argue convincingly for ranking Stanford with that thin of a resume. St Mary's was our only Top 50 win - and that's a hard win to hang your hat on when you have other opportunities such as Clemson and UCLA. 

Compare to the Selection Committee's #16 Wisconsin's resume -- before Sunday's games -- and draw your own conclusions, based on RPI before Sunday's games
  -  best wins: #11 Iowa, #22 Penn St, #26 UCLA (all wins by 1 goal)
  -  ties #33 Ohio State
  -  losses: #14 Michigan State (a bad loss because of score, 0-6), #30 LSU, #174 Purdue
[Wisconsin's significant games remaining are against current RPI #32 Washington (which is in first place in the Big 10, an indicator of how weak that conference is) and #39 Northwestern.]

[oldalum]

While Stanford passes the eye test, our resume was extremely poor until the win over Virginia. We had lost to #26 UCLA, drawn with #29 Clemson, and our best win was against #41 St Mary's. Our schedule has kind of collapsed as Santa Clara isn't as strong as usual, USC has been in free fall, and we just didn't have the quality wins. Despite our relatively high RPI and our eye test, I'm not sure I could argue convincingly for ranking Stanford with that thin of a resume. St Mary's was our only Top 50 win - and that's a hard win to hang your hat on when you have other opportunities such as Clemson and UCLA. 

Compare to the Selection Committee's #16 Wisconsin's resume -- before Sunday's games -- and draw your own conclusions, based on RPI before Sunday's games
  -  best wins: #11 Iowa, #22 Penn St, #26 UCLA (all wins by 1 goal)
  -  ties #33 Ohio State
  -  losses: #14 Michigan State (a bad loss because of score, 0-6), #30 LSU, #174 Purdue
[Wisconsin's significant games remaining are against current RPI #32 Washington (which is in first place in the Big 10, an indicator of how weak that conference is) and #39 Northwestern.]