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  • olmec@lemm.eetoCollege Football@fanaticus.social•c/cfb Week 3 Poll ResultsEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Texas is #1. I’m glad to see it. Winning on the road is more impressive than a neutral site game that George had. Feelings might change as the season goes on, but I’m glad that we aren’t a slave to preseason rankings.

    We aren’t cowards!! Northern Illinois over Notre Dame!!

    Kansas State winning close over Tulane, and jumping 6 spots is really big, but not as big as 8 for Tennessee for beating North Carolina State. Oregon losing 5 spots by winning is shocking by how much, not that it happened.

    Spots 4-8 only have a 2 point difference. This mirrors my internal thought process. They are all good, but I don’t know how good relative to each other.

  • olmec@lemm.eetoCollege Football@fanaticus.social•Sources - Boise State among four schools set to join Pac-12 - ESPNEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Reports are that they need at least 2 more members to stay as a conference. My guess is they want to find 2 more schools that can tide them over. Then, when the MWC is up for tv rights, and there isn’t a huge buyout to leave, then the Pac8 can grab what they want. Which ones would they want? I have no idea, I would be guessing at random.

    I think it is clear that the 4 teams that left were wanted by the Pac2, even if it took a chunk of cash to break contracts and get them there.

    Who could the other 2 teams be to get the conference to 8? I have no idea. Ignoring any Mountain West schools, I don’t know who you would go after. There is probably a discussion with North Dakota State and South Dakota State, but I think they would rather stay in the dominate role of FCS. Then you start looking at all the other names that get thrown around. UTEP, Memphis, Tulane, USF, Uconn. I’m sure there are others, I can’t think of any as I quickly type this. Regardless, these are all huge travel distances, and I don’t think any give a significant boost to the conference.

    It is really a shame, because it feels like if Stanford/Cal were still in with these other 6, it would be a solid 5th place conference. A step behind the BigXII, but a step above the best G5. It probably wouldn’t, but if you could get to an auto-qualifying bid into the conference, that would be worth it to everyone involved.

    It is still a shame. The Pac 12 dissolving was bad for everyone. The one bright spot was that I felt the MWC and Pac 12 merging would be beneficial to everyone. It just made too much sense. The problem is, these big decisions aren’t made on a conference or national level. They are made by the individual schools each trying to look out for themselves.

  • olmec@lemm.eetoCollege Football@fanaticus.social•c/cfb Week 2 Poll Results and Link to Week 3 PollEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I don’t get this group. How is Florida State ranked, while Texas A&M and Clemson aren’t? Never mind that Boston College is 4 spots behind. I didn’t put them on my poll, which means that Florida State got an average of #19 from the other 3 voters. I don’t know how you look at that team and still think the Seminoles are a top 20 team.

    alabama is all lowercase, please don’t fix it.

    The spreadsheet of votes is locked. I can’t see where all the polls ranked everyone.

    I see a few other trends, but I think they are just outliers due to the small sample size. I bet it will all get figured out in the next 2 weeks.