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Bob A said WHAT?

Posted by: Eric Loy

Sunday, October 12, 2008 5:42 PM

In Bob A's blog he goes off on the recent poll which in his thoughts, shortchanged BYU...

"BYU is undefeated. Florida has a loss. The Gators didn't get beat by a power, but by 3-3 Mississippi. For that loss, no matter what they do against LSU, the Gators can't move ahead of teams that are undefeated. Period."

Um, what? Florida is already ahead of some undefeated teams. Did you forget Utah and Ball State?

"And why is Southern Cal so high? The Trojans lost to Oregon State. Those are the same Beavers who lost to Stanford, Penn State and Utah. The Utes are undefeated and eight spots behind Southern Cal, which lost to the team they beat. Makes no sense."

"Would Florida beat BYU on a neutral field? Probably. Would Southern Cal beat Utah? Likely. But that isn't the point. The voters shouldn't be guessing what would happen, they should follow what has happened. "

Reasonably, yes, but that would then put every team that scores an upset in the top 25 until they get beat later in the year. This isn't boxing, where you supposedly assume the ranking of the fighter you beat. These are subjective rankings based on how good you think the team is. If you feel Florida is better than BYU, rank them that way.

"We've got to fight for the non-BCS schools."

No, we don't. We should reward the teams that are successful against tougher opposition, not those that have great seasons against bad teams.

When you come up with a poll that has Ball State (7-0 right now) in your top five, THEN I'd go for putting BYU up there. After all, if  "We've got to fight for the non-BCS schools" then we should fight for ALL of them, yes?

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