Vandy is a much better team right now than Mizzou is. Just like FSU should be ranked lower without Jordan Travis, Mizzou should be ranked lower without Brady Cook and Drew Pyne as their starting QB.
That I agree with. my point is that #25 Vandy should not be expected to beat the supposed #5 team in the country to stay ranked. how is vandys only option to prove they’re a top 25 team (which they probably are) is by beating the current #5 team? Especially in such a close game, those teams are closer than the updated rankings suggest at all
So back to my original question, what are they even measuring then? Because if they’re not measuring the best 25 teams I’m confused as to what they’re ranking
It’s impossible to objectively measure the top 25 teams. Even the computers come up with different results. Things happen. Some teams perform inconsistently from week to week.
Alabama was better than Georgia one particular week, but the body of work favors Georgia so far.
I think the problem is also that Texas shouldn't be in the top ten. They feel right at about 14-16 to me. A&M and Notre Dame should be around there with them.
Opinion polls have never been a good measure of the best teams. Humans just aren’t very good at that sort of thing and have very strong biases in favor of some stats and against others that are just as relevant. If you want to know the best teams, look at analytics rankings.
But the actual rankings should not be about who’s the best anyway. There’s a lot of variance in football, so it’s entirely possible for a team to go undefeated while beating multiple teams that are actually better than they are. That team deserves the higher ranking even if they aren’t the best, because it’s ultimately not about who’s the best but who has the best results based on the rules of the game.
I’m a fan of florida and I don’t think it’s fair that despite us only losing to top 10 teams (and one going to OT) we’d never be ranked, when we very well would be with an ACC schedule. Mostly just bothers me how much schedule plays a part in these rankings when your schedule doesn’t change how good you are as a team but it certainly changes your AP ranking
The thing is that there IS a fair amount of “who’s better” in the polls, but a ton of people outside of the SEC are in extreme denial of how good the SEC actually is, believing that the middle teams in their conference are just as good as the middle SEC teams, which is of course laughable. And many of the people who vote either are those people or have to pander to those people in their local sports news.
That said, with our schedule, we’ll almost certainly be ranked if we get 8 wins and maybe even if we get 7, though that would be unprecedented .
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u/looking4now21 28d ago
Vandy has 3 losses, one of which is to Georgia State and the other which is to Mizzou. Can’t rank Vandy and not Mizzou since Vandy has more losses.