ESPN now trolling Iowa hard and ...

[St. Louis Hawk]

in full court press trying to sell Oklahoma. See if you can find out what's wrong with this text and graphic from ESPN.com:



Iowa, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma are all right on the verge of the top four in the College Football Playoff Rankings. It seems like they are ranked in opposite order when looking at some criteria.

LOL

 

[StormHawk42]

The FPI is a sh!t metric

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

they are using ESPN's FPI rankings.. whatever the **** those are.

FPI has:
#1 Oklahoma
#2 Baylor

Talk about ESPN bias, they aren't even bashful about it any more.

They are literally using an ESPN manufactured ranking to push the ESPN narrative.

 

[Phenomenally Frantastic]

The Big Ten should come up with their own BS ranking system and take out ads during SEC games.

1. OSU
2. Iowa
3. MSU
4. Michigan
5. Clemson

See how much they like it.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

they are using ESPN's FPI rankings.. whatever the **** those are.

FPI has:
#1 Oklahoma
#2 Baylor

Talk about ESPN bias, they aren't even bashful about it any more.

They are literally using an ESPN manufactured ranking to push the ESPN narrative.

FPI are the same rankings that have 10-0 Iowa #29, and 3-7 Georgia Tech #30.

I actually like the use of the arbitrary "FPI Top 40 W-L" which (a) essentially repeats strength of schedule and (b) conveniently overlooks the Oklahoma loss to Texas.

Awesome work ESPN. Simply awesome.

 

[td77]

in full court press trying to sell Oklahoma. See if you can find out what's wrong with this text and graphic from ESPN.com:



Iowa, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma are all right on the verge of the top four in the College Football Playoff Rankings. It seems like they are ranked in opposite order when looking at some criteria.

LOL

The other part of this troll was a quote below this graphic stating according to FPI, Iowa has a 20% chance of beating OU at home.

 

[HawkeyeinOmaha]

The FPI is a sh!t metric

^This! Why not use the CFP top 25?

 

[SpartanHawk]

in full court press trying to sell Oklahoma. See if you can find out what's wrong with this text and graphic from ESPN.com:



Iowa, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma are all right on the verge of the top four in the College Football Playoff Rankings. It seems like they are ranked in opposite order when looking at some criteria.

LOL

They avoid noting the loss of OU to Texas. Hmm... How did Texas do against Iowa State? How did Iowa State do against Iowa? For that matter, even when winning how did Ok State do against Iowa State as well? And where is Iowa State in their own FPI list? #71!

 

[thirdandpunting]

The other part of this troll was a quote below this graphic stating according to FPI, Iowa has a 20% chance of beating OU at home.

What does FPI project the Oklahoma win percentage vs. Texas on a neutral field?

 

[BioHawk]

Well, I suppose they could have added "Eye Test Factor" as a stat as well.

 

[gojojo]

Texas

 

[Recruiting Violation]

What does FPI project the Oklahoma win percentage vs. Texas on a neutral field?

It's probably somewhere around 90%. The Texas FPI rating is 6.2 versus 12.7 for Iowa. If their rating is close to half of ours, then I'd think their winning odds are somewhere around half as well. Of course, when you figure in the neutral site, maybe it's closer to 95%.

 

[thirdandpunting]

What is frustrating is all these media outlets aren't acknowledging how valuable wins are the longer you go undefeated. As much as I hate OSU you have to hand it to them, they win and win often.

The target gets bigger. The pressure grows. The distractions around you increase. You have to deal with contentment.

If a team loses a game, the pressure is off and its easier to play with nothing to lose. Oklahoma's recent play has been great, while no one was paying attention.

IMO Oklahoma's Baylor win in the FPI is insanely overrated. Baylor plays an up tempo style that increases point margins against inferior opponents, relative to other football teams. Models based on scoring margin will over value this. Baylor loses their number 1 quarterback and Oklahoma beats a different Baylor team.

ESPN's FPI values scoring margin and then values beating teams who have high scoring margins. If you are ball control-defensive minded team, who plays other ball control-defensive minded teams. You end up with 10 wins and ranked 29 in FPI.

 

[Recruiting Violation]

15 seconds looking at these FPI ratings shows you that they aren't actual team rankings. They are an arbitrary group of statistical ratings lumped together to give you some idea of how good the team looks on paper. They don't figure in actual game results, at least not much. For example, Wisconsin is 24 and Iowa is 29, even though we have a superior record, including a head-to-head win at Wisconsin. Similarly, Northwestern is 61 behind 57 Duke, despite a superior record and a head-to-head victory at Duke. There are quite a few other examples that aren't as stark as these two, but clearly win/loss record is not much (if any factor), and who you've beaten and lost to are clearly not included.

 

[hoffmkr]

If you want to see how BAD the FPI is, look at Northwestern (8-2) FPI ranking. Then count how many teams are .500 or worse above them.

G-Tech, Auburn, Vtech, Washington, Arizona St., Nebraska, K-State, Texas, Missouri and South Carolina.

Iowa is undefeated and won AT Wisconsin, but yet Wisconsin is ranked higher?

It's a Biased SEC/Pac12 ranking if I've ever seen one.

 

[ichawk24]

7-3 USC is the 8th best team in the country by FPI.

7-3 Ole Miss 9th.

Oklahoma is ranked NUMBER ONE IN THE COUNTRY IN FPI. If that isn't an indictment on the formula, I don't know what is.

 

[no_one_]

Vs Texas (now 4-6) Oklahoma had 37 rushes for 67 yards (1.8 yards/carry) and Texas had 58 rushes for 313 yards (5.4 yards/carry).

 

[Herkmeister]

WIN....................and we be IN........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[David1979]

FPI is a made up ranking by ESPN. It is funny people try to pass if off as legit.
Also, can people stop talking as if they have beat anyone good. Baylor has a true freshman QB and Baylor struggled against Kstate and even struggled against Iowa State once Lanning went in the game. I also heard ESPN say OU beat Baylor and now they have a chance to beat a top ten TCU team. TCU is borderline top 25 at this point. Their defense isn't good and they haven't beaten anyone to give them that ranking. OU is the best team in the Big 12 and I think they should be ahead of Notre Dame but the reason Baylor and TCU are ranked as high as they are is because they didn't play anyone until the end of the season.

I also think it is funny when you hear the talking heads talk about when Alabama wins a close one it is because good teams find ways to win even when they don't play well and then Iowa wins a close game and is because Iowa isn't that good. It's just hilarious.

 

[Hawkize31]

The Big Ten should come up with their own BS ranking system and take out ads during SEC games.

1. OSU
2. Iowa
3. MSU
4. Michigan
5. Clemson

See how much they like it.

We could just use W-L record.

 

[MauiHawk]

I like how record/losses is not even a row in that graphic. You have to read the fine print to see that.

 

[bagdropper]

All we needed to know about ESPN was on display when they squeezed the playoff show in at 8:30 (which wound up being 8:45) between two college basketball games in mid November.

They had 3 other networks to place it at 7PM central...but no. We can't have half the sporting country switch off the prime time Kentucky vs Duke basketball game, can we?

 

[markfromj]

All we needed to know about ESPN was on display when they squeezed the playoff show in at 8:30 (which wound up being 8:45) between two college basketball games in mid November.

They had 3 other networks to place it at 7PM central...but no. We can't have half the sporting country switch off the prime time Kentucky vs Duke basketball game, can we?

Why should ESPN do anything but maximize revenue?

 

[NashvilleHawk]

FPI are the same rankings that have 10-0 Iowa #29, and 3-7 Georgia Tech #30.

I actually like the use of the arbitrary "FPI Top 40 W-L" which (a) essentially repeats strength of schedule and (b) conveniently overlooks the Oklahoma loss to Texas.

Awesome work ESPN. Simply awesome.

The ESPN FPI is the worst thing a network did since The Weather Channel decided to start naming snowstorms.