TCU Poll Position AP and Coaches?

[Mean Purple]

Meh. Who cares. I hope we aren't ranked going into the SMU game.

Auburn isn't ranked either, and they beat a team on the road that is still getting some Top 25 points (by who I don't know). Georgia Tech isn't ranked and they beat Colorado on the road. We're ranked ahead of USF and they beat previously ranked #25 Boise St by 27 points. How do you figure that?

The bottom line is UNC was not supposed to be very good. Middle to bottom middle of the ACC. We moved up 15 spots in the rankings with that win, so it's not like nobody is giving us any credit.

dude, we demolished UNC.

 

[froglash88]

The only thing we have proven so far is that we can beat a bad team.

Maybe we made an average or good UNC team look very bad. Need more data.

 

[TxFrog1999]

Auburn isn't ranked either, and they beat a team on the road that is still getting some Top 25 points (by who I don't know). Georgia Tech isn't ranked and they beat Colorado on the road. We're ranked ahead of USF and they beat previously ranked #25 Boise St by 27 points. How do you figure that?

See my first statement:

"Absolute crap of a poll…"

 

[Limey Frog]

We should hire the Poll Assassin and her monkey to fix these people.

 

[KillerFrog InD KitchenSink]

FWIW here are the teams in the top 25 of the Massey computer composite that are not ranked in AP or coaches:

14. USC
18. TCU
21. Louisville
22. Missouri

These teams all have legitimate beef for being under-ranked at this point.

The most over-ranked teams, according to computer composite, are

39. FSU
35. Texas Tech
28. Ill

 

[Putt4Purple]

Polls mean nothing right now. Keep winning and it will take care of itself. Why are people upset about this?

 

[An-Cap Frog]

Meh. Who cares. I hope we aren't ranked going into the SMU game.

Auburn isn't ranked either, and they beat a team on the road that is still getting some Top 25 points (by who I don't know). Georgia Tech isn't ranked and they beat Colorado on the road. We're ranked ahead of USF and they beat previously ranked #25 Boise St by 27 points. How do you figure that?

The bottom line is UNC was not supposed to be very good. Middle to bottom middle of the ACC. We moved up 15 spots in the rankings with that win, so it's not like nobody is giving us any credit.

If we go 4-0 we will be ranked, it also means we are probably going to Arlington.

 

[Mean Purple]

Polls mean nothing right now. Keep winning and it will take care of itself. Why are people upset about this?

let's do away with this myth once and for all.

yes, they do matter because where you are ranked now leads to where you get ranked later. and it is well reported that the committee looks at these polls in part of their consideration of who they list in theirs. it's just reality.

it's brand biased. period. when you look at who is ranked, who they played and how they did, some of them simply do not belong above TCU. We went into a very electric and fairly hostile environment and shut them the hell up by halftime.

 

[TopFrog]

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

Good list...I might add Utah.

F Utah

 

[The Artist Formerly Known as PhormerPhrog]

We should hire the Poll Assassin and her monkey to fix these people.

Pretty sure BY flew her in this week and blanketed her canvass.

 

[Mean Purple]

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Texas lost.

 

[Panther City Frog]

Texas lost.

Impossible!

 

[BuffWarFrog]

31 in AP

FSU below UT, Clemson, ND…but mostly Clemson, is a tavesty.

 

[BuffWarFrog]

Surely that's the hardest schedule in all of NCAA football.

Almost as nuts - Arkansas

* @ Ole Miss
* @ Memphis
* Notre Dame
* @ Tennessee
* Texas A&M
* Auburn
* Mississippi State
* @ LSU
* @ Texas
* Missouri

 

[LisaLT]

The only thing TCU should be concerned with is WINNING. We need to avenge that ass whoopin' from SMU last year. No fartin' around this season. They need to stay focused. UNC is in the rear view mirror now.

 

[BrewingFrog]

None of this is false, but rankings shape the conversations and to dismiss them as "stupid" or meaningless misses the big picture. Rankings affect TV ratings. They affect reputation. They affect how much attention your program is getting on all the TV shows and websites covering college football. They affect ticket sales and attendance, which has an effect on revenue. They eventually trickle into the early CFP rankings because those voters take who you beat/lost to and how they are ranked into consideration, even if they tell you they don't.

So while we can all agree that they are highly inaccurate at this point in the season, it's not a good idea to just dismiss their meaning and relevance.

I would further posit that the early polls are tweaked to enhance ratings for game broadcasts. Things eventually shake themselves out, but the thumb is always on the scale of certain Brand Name Programs (cough*TEXAS*cough), and they will always have a better number hanging by their side.

 

[Wexahu]

I would further posit that the early polls are tweaked to enhance ratings for game broadcasts. Things eventually shake themselves out, but the thumb is always on the scale of certain Brand Name Programs (cough*TEXAS*cough), and they will always have a better number hanging by their side.

Always except for the last few years.

 

[FroggleRock]

FSU below UT, Clemson, ND…but mostly Clemson, is a tavesty.

Huh? Whats more likely…Bama who lost their starting QB and lost to Vandy and OU last year just isn’t that great. Or FSU who went 2-10 is now somehow a top 10 team?

 

[Wexahu]

Huh? Whats more likely…Bama who lost their starting QB and lost to Vandy and OU last year just isn’t that great. Or FSU who went 2-10 is now somehow a top 10 team?

Yeah, it's kinda funny how all you hear about from all the Alabama haters is that they are either way overrated or just not that good anymore, but then the team that beats them should now be given all kinds of respect........because they beat Alabama.

It's not even Week 2 yet. This will all shake itself out, and probably relatively soon.