#25 AP

[Thegreatone]

I will take it. Beat USF and you got a great chance to prove yourself again verse Syracuse

 

[psax889906]

The fact that Michigan St. is ranked #24 in the Coaches poll is one of the biggest jokes I've seen in regards to rankings in a long time... a 10-5 team that just lost to Penn St. I don't care how difficult their schedule has been, you can't just schedule those tough games and get all the dap for it regardless of the outcome. That early season win against an Overrated Washington team is helping keep them afloat me thinks.

 

[bearcat jeff]

The fact that Michigan St. is ranked #24 in the Coaches poll is one of the biggest jokes I've seen in regards to rankings in a long time... a 10-5 team that just lost to Penn St. I don't care how difficult their schedule has been, you can't just schedule those tough games and get all the dap for it regardless of the outcome. That early season win against an Overrated Washington team is helping keep them afloat me thinks.

I think people get caught up in who you beat and don't look enough at who beats you.

 

[ralph1950]

The AP voters get it, the number 24 team is supposed to lose to the number 7 team. The coaches, seemingly, have no clue

 

[Kingsley Court]

The fact that Michigan St. is ranked #24 in the Coaches poll is one of the biggest jokes I've seen in regards to rankings in a long time... a 10-5 team that just lost to Penn St. I don't care how difficult their schedule has been, you can't just schedule those tough games and get all the dap for it regardless of the outcome. That early season win against an Overrated Washington team is helping keep them afloat me thinks.

It's pathetic, but I think I can look back to last years UNC team at the worst all time.

 

[psax889906]

It's pathetic, but I think I can look back to last years UNC team at the worst all time.

Well certainly pre season there are a lot of gaffes. Look at Texas last year, they were #1 in the country at one point. Your name and tradition gets you a long way in College athletics.

 

[bearcat jeff]

Well certainly pre season there are a lot of gaffes. Look at Texas last year, they were #1 in the country at one point. Your name and tradition gets you a long way in College athletics.

Fella that's why the game is played on the court. The top 25 should be called the, "Our Perceived Top 25 Most Talented Teams". That's not what the Top 25 is suppose to be. It's suppose to reflect the best 25 schools that week. Texas last season is a good example. Texas had as much talent as anybody in the country last season. But they weren't one of the best teams. Last seasons Bearcats showed more talent doesn't always make you a better team.

 

[bearcat jeff]

The three teams that fell out of the poll were Memphis, Vanderbilt, and Cincinnati. Let's take Memphis first: Despite their utter lack of quality wins and last week's brutal blowout to a Tennessee team that turned around and lost to Arkansas on Saturday, the Tigers still managed to notch 36 votes. How? I have no idea. Vanderbilt, meanwhile, was punished sorely for its loss to South Carolina, but since the Commodores were only ranked No. 24 last week, I suppose you can see why they fell far enough to miss out on the poll. (Though I have no idea why they got four votes less than Memphis. That's just strange.) Of the three, Cincinnati has the most legitimate gripe. All the Bearcats did last week was handle Xavier easily at home and lose to No. 7 Villanova at Villanova. Is that worth losing a poll spot over? Really? If the Bearcats thought they were being disrespected before, they'll certainly feel that today.
Cincinnati's omission makes even less sense when you consider the teams that lost to unranked teams but managed to avoid much poll punishment themselves. Among them: No. 22 UCF, which lost at Houston; No. 24 Michigan State, which lost at Penn State; No. 20 Kansas State, which lost at Oklahoma State; 15 Kentucky, which lost at Georgia; No. 14 Texas, which lost to Connecticut at home; No. 12 Missouri, which lost at Colorado; and No. 19 Georgetown, which lost at home to West Virginia. I'm not arguing that all, or any, of those teams should suffer all that much for their losses. But all of those losses were obviously worse than Cincinnati's. The poll voters didn't seem to mind that a bunch of ranked teams lost on the road to unranked teams. That's fine. But then why drop Cincinnati out? Baffling.
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebask...910/poll-thoughts-fallout-from-a-wild-weekend