Red Mosquito

turned2black wrote:

jwfocker wrote:

Electromatic wrote:

jwfocker wrote:The rankings technically don't matter now but it still doesn't mean the ranking system has some serious issues. It's dismissive to say it doesn't matter. It obviously matters or else they wouldn't have a hour long bs session on it and it matters to teams, the players, and the coaches.

They showed last year though that the final rankings don't have really anything to do with the initial or even the weekly rankings.

Ohio State opened at 16 last year.

They chose teams that won championships over either Big 12 team that were possibly more deserving than others in the playoff because the Big 12 decided not to name a champion.

LSU/Alabama play this weekend, Michigan State and Ohio State play eventually, Clemson has FSU this weekend. It's a little stupid to even have these rankings.. it's nothing but marketing for ESPN. Most of this is going to work out. Even with the computers in the BCS, it usually did accomplish what it set out to do.

The Big 12 has the biggest gripe again today, but they will have a champion this year, it remains to be seen whether they will choose a Big 12 champion over champion of none Notre Dame.

Yeah I'm aware of that. And that's great and all but it's just a very slippery slope to rank Alabama that high after having such a huge and awful loss. If it doesn't matter than don't do a ranking until much later in the season.

Ummmmmm... they lost by 6 points to a top 20 team.

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

Monkey_Driven wrote:

turned2black wrote:

jwfocker wrote:

Electromatic wrote:

jwfocker wrote:The rankings technically don't matter now but it still doesn't mean the ranking system has some serious issues. It's dismissive to say it doesn't matter. It obviously matters or else they wouldn't have a hour long bs session on it and it matters to teams, the players, and the coaches.

They showed last year though that the final rankings don't have really anything to do with the initial or even the weekly rankings.

Ohio State opened at 16 last year.

They chose teams that won championships over either Big 12 team that were possibly more deserving than others in the playoff because the Big 12 decided not to name a champion.

LSU/Alabama play this weekend, Michigan State and Ohio State play eventually, Clemson has FSU this weekend. It's a little stupid to even have these rankings.. it's nothing but marketing for ESPN. Most of this is going to work out. Even with the computers in the BCS, it usually did accomplish what it set out to do.

The Big 12 has the biggest gripe again today, but they will have a champion this year, it remains to be seen whether they will choose a Big 12 champion over champion of none Notre Dame.

Yeah I'm aware of that. And that's great and all but it's just a very slippery slope to rank Alabama that high after having such a huge and awful loss. If it doesn't matter than don't do a ranking until much later in the season.

Ummmmmm... they lost by 6 points to a top 20 team.

And it was a really fluky loss. They muffed like 2 or 3 kicks that gave Ole Miss tremendous field position.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:lsu 8
bama more than 8

BurtReynolds wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:lsu 8
bama more than 8

why are people outside the SEC so jealous of the SEC?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

f*ck you straight to heck

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

f*ck you straight to heck

in all honesty i don't give 2 sh*ts about college football anymore...I might watch michigan state put up 70 pts on nebraska this saturday though

Monkey_Driven wrote:

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

f*ck you straight to heck

in all honesty i don't give 2 sh*ts about college football anymore...I might watch michigan state put up 70 pts on nebraska this saturday though

Nebraska is soooo bad.

doug rr wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

f*ck you straight to heck

in all honesty i don't give 2 sh*ts about college football anymore...I might watch michigan state put up 70 pts on nebraska this saturday though

Nebraska is soooo bad.

and will be for quite some time

Monkey_Driven wrote:

doug rr wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:i hate both teams but i'll take LSU

f*ck you straight to heck

in all honesty i don't give 2 sh*ts about college football anymore...I might watch michigan state put up 70 pts on nebraska this saturday though

Nebraska is soooo bad.

and will be for quite some time

Most likely. Still not sure what they were thinking when they hired Riley.