Wilner is just one of many idiots voting in the AP poll. The fact that people take it as seriously as they do is a joke… but its for lack of a better alternative because its needed purely to be able to market early season games as being important to watch and care about (Notre Dame vs. Texas is a prime example). Here’s the problem’s:
1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week. 2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say 3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
Wilner is just one of many idiots voting in the AP poll. The fact that people take it as seriously as they do is a joke… but its for lack of a better alternative because its needed purely to be able to market early season games as being important to watch and care about (Notre Dame vs. Texas is a prime example). Here’s the problem’s:
1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week. 2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say 3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
Washington is 4th playing the same kind of schedule as Nebraska or West Virginia who are fighting to be top10 and are behind 1 loss teams.
UW is getting plenty of respect. The off season natty paid off
Nebraska and West Virginia aren't curb stomping people like UW is though. The ranking is based on record and performance...and yeah the offseason natty probably didn't hurt.
Wilner is just one of many idiots voting in the AP poll. The fact that people take it as seriously as they do is a joke… but its for lack of a better alternative because its needed purely to be able to market early season games as being important to watch and care about (Notre Dame vs. Texas is a prime example). Here’s the problem’s:
1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week. 2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say 3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
It's my understanding that the committee is a vicious animal.
Good poont. I was sleepwalking through this page and somehow "Cal" "16" "FAVORITE" "USC" sounded my internal alarm and re-read that. Took me 2 seconds for my fucking passive brain to alert me that in no parallel universe would that make any sense, and Cal is STILL ranked too high.
They could play the game on the North Pole (lol) with SC only allowed to dress 30 guys and Cal still wouldn't be favored by 16.
Wilner is just one of many idiots voting in the AP poll. The fact that people take it as seriously as they do is a joke… but its for lack of a better alternative because its needed purely to be able to market early season games as being important to watch and care about (Notre Dame vs. Texas is a prime example). Here’s the problem’s:
1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week. 2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say 3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
It's my understanding that the committee is a vicious animal.
Wilner is just one of many idiots voting in the AP poll. The fact that people take it as seriously as they do is a joke… but its for lack of a better alternative because its needed purely to be able to market early season games as being important to watch and care about (Notre Dame vs. Texas is a prime example). Here’s the problem’s:
1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week. 2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say 3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
It's my understanding that the committee is a vicious animal.
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1. September rankings bullshit (hi @TierbsHsotBoobs ) holds an anchor to the rankings very deep into the season, regardless of what we see happen in the season. Especially when a team like UW has a huge win over Stanford when the tree was ranked #7, which bumped us into the top 5… when eventually it becomes clear that the tree isn’t that good. Another example is Ole Miss being ranked at 3-3 last week.
2. Most of these voters are reporters for specific teams and don’t have time to watch many other games and accurately judge other teams outside of box scores and what others say
3. Reporters are inherently biased to write shit that will get them more page views (aka ad revenue). There is a 0% chance that Scott Wolf still actually thinks Michigan is the best team in the country right now over Bama… because you have to be autistic or Pumpy (or abundance) to think that… but he’s going to rank them #1 every week just in case Bama loses so he can say “I TOLD YOU SO!!!!” Same thing happens on smaller scales everywhere, like Jood ranking the Cuog and SDSU ahead of UW preseason.
The CFB playoff rankings are done mostly right. A small committee of experts who can debate things after 9 weeks in the season have passed, with no revealed vote totals. If only the committee had a few remembers replaced *cough* TY *cough* it would be perfect.
UW is getting plenty of respect. The off season natty paid off
They could play the game on the North Pole (lol) with SC only allowed to dress 30 guys and Cal still wouldn't be favored by 16.