How high do we jump in the rankings?
- Thread starter wowski18
- Start date
I never thought I would cheer for USC, but hopefully they hold on and beat the fainting irish
Yeah, I’m going to have to take a shower after cheering for USC.
Doubt we jump Stanford. They put up 56 on the #18 team and looked great. I'm thinking 14 unless Notre Dame loses, then 13.
Again, if anyone is paying attention (I know they are not), we beat a team by 30 which they lost to by 10. Put another way, we scored 40 against NW, they scored 6. Six. 3+3.
Of course, Iowa beat #20 team (who happened to beat Stanford) just as badly, but I agree with you.
This team seems to have tuned out all outside noise since last season. I sincerely doubt they're using rankings as mojo.
I see us jumping Oklahoma St, AM, Michigan, Ole Miss.
Florida loses a tough game to #8 in Baton Rouge won't drop them below Iowa IMO. Aggies got rolled on their home field, they will drop below us.
So #13 is where I see us. Was really hoping to see USC beat ND
Florida loses a tough game to #8 in Baton Rouge won't drop them below Iowa IMO. Aggies got rolled on their home field, they will drop below us.
So #13 is where I see us. Was really hoping to see USC beat ND
There are only two things I know for sure. One is that we will not lose next week. The other thing I cannot talk about.
Here is my brief analysis, which I'm guessing is more time than 90% of the voters will spend on this. The relevant wins by anyone who might be ranked above or around us:
Ohio State - PSU?
Baylor - West Virginia? Texas Tech?
TCU - Minnesota? Texas Tech? KSU? (by a combined 16 points)
Utah - Michigan, California
Clemson - ND
LSU - Mississippi State, Florida
Michigan State - Michigan
Florida State - Miami?
Oklahoma State - KSU? West Virginia?
Alabama - Wisconsin, Georgia, Texas A&M (lost to Ole Miss)
Notre Dame - USC? (lost to Clemson)
Texas A&M - Mississippi State? ASU? (lost to Alabama)
Florida - Ole Miss (lost to LSU)
Stanford - USC? UCLA (lost to Northwestern)
And finally....
Iowa - Wisconsin, Northwestern, Pittsburgh
Now I'm not trying to make an argument that we are the best team in the country by any means, or that we are running some kind of gauntlet, but how many of these teams truly have a better resume than we have if you strip away the names? OSU and Baylor haven't beaten anyone better than our three. TCU has been hanging on by a thread against teams about the same caliber as our wins. Utah and LSU are decent. Alabama's wins are solid, but they lost to a team that got rolled by Memphis. Stanford's are ok, but they had 240 yards of total offense against the team we just hung 40 on.
I know it would be expecting too much of the voters for them to do more than just reassign the same rating to every team that wins this week, but for all of the harping about our strength of schedule, how is it any less impressive than all but a couple of teams listed here?
Ohio State - PSU?
Baylor - West Virginia? Texas Tech?
TCU - Minnesota? Texas Tech? KSU? (by a combined 16 points)
Utah - Michigan, California
Clemson - ND
LSU - Mississippi State, Florida
Michigan State - Michigan
Florida State - Miami?
Oklahoma State - KSU? West Virginia?
Alabama - Wisconsin, Georgia, Texas A&M (lost to Ole Miss)
Notre Dame - USC? (lost to Clemson)
Texas A&M - Mississippi State? ASU? (lost to Alabama)
Florida - Ole Miss (lost to LSU)
Stanford - USC? UCLA (lost to Northwestern)
And finally....
Iowa - Wisconsin, Northwestern, Pittsburgh
Now I'm not trying to make an argument that we are the best team in the country by any means, or that we are running some kind of gauntlet, but how many of these teams truly have a better resume than we have if you strip away the names? OSU and Baylor haven't beaten anyone better than our three. TCU has been hanging on by a thread against teams about the same caliber as our wins. Utah and LSU are decent. Alabama's wins are solid, but they lost to a team that got rolled by Memphis. Stanford's are ok, but they had 240 yards of total offense against the team we just hung 40 on.
I know it would be expecting too much of the voters for them to do more than just reassign the same rating to every team that wins this week, but for all of the harping about our strength of schedule, how is it any less impressive than all but a couple of teams listed here?
Last edited:
14th most likely. 13th at best, although perhaps the pollsters will really like us for being undefeated and jump us a bit more.....
Who cares? What do you think the point of all of this is? Why do you bother posting here if you don't care???
At some point the voters have to take into account that there are a lot of teams that have lost in from of them and start jumping them and that Iowa has gone on the road and beaten two top 20 teams. How many other teams can say that? That and The Pitt win keeps looking better and better.
I'm guessing Hawks will be #12 or #13 this week and will move up another spot or two during the bye week. Should be in top ten or on the bubble when the first playoff rankings come out in two weeks.
Hawks will be ranked #14. Like Ferentz said post game, I'm not sure how good this Iowa team is. Love the running game, run D, and the team cohesion. Obviously love the remaining schedule too (all 5 teams at the bottom of their divisions right now). Regarding the whole Iowa beat Northwestern, Northwestern beat Stanford.........I have watched every Stanford game and a good friend of mine coaches there and they were not a very good team week 1. They have improved so much after week 1 and are a completely different team.
This wouldn't be a post from a disgruntled meechigan fan that is possibly sending death threats to a certain meechigan punter would it???
I say 13th possibly 12th
That's just Ferentz talk, if you looked at the grin on his face when he said it he knows how good this team is. We dominated NW way more than Michigan....but when Michigan won it was bc Michigan is dominate, when we won NW must be pretenders
