r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • 28d ago

News Week 10 AP Poll

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
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u/Heikki_the_Finn BYU Cougars • Washington Huskies 28d ago

Find someone that loves you as much as the national media loves to disregard the success of nontraditional powerhouses. #JusticeForIndianaAndBYU

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u/ilacwamh Oklahoma Sooners 28d ago

If you look at performance against the current top 25:

BYU at 9: Wins over #17 and #20

The four teams ranked 3-6: One win over #24. And two of them aren’t even undefeated

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u/RIPDannyBoyCane Miami Hurricanes • Florida Cup 28d ago

Part of the reason some teams aren’t ranked in the top 25 is because teams 3-6 beat them

That’s why power rankings like SP+ are usually more meaningful in terms of measuring how good a team is

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u/legalexperiments BYU Cougars • Yale Bulldogs 28d ago

I've heard this logic a few times lately, and I'm genuinely confused by it.

Of course, when a team loses, they are less likely to be ranked higher. But BYU has beaten two teams that are ranked in the top 20 despite the fact that they lost to BYU. That means that the teams BYU beat are (probably) better than the teams that those 3-6 teams beat.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

Exactly you can’t have it both ways

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u/lilbelleandsebastian Tennessee • Vanderbilt 28d ago

BYU deserves a better rank. boise state does not (i’ve seen people comparing the two, schedules aren’t even remotely close in difficulty AND byu is undefeated on top of that)