9 thoughts on “The Top 25”

1. Scooter, Scooter, Scooter… where do I begin?

   When I saw you had Nevada ranked ahead of Boise, I figured you were just playing by some “they have the same record and beat them head to head” rule, so I let it slide, even though everyone (even notoriously boneheaded beat writers) knows that Boise is head and shoulders above Nevada. I mean, just look at what they did to the rest of the WAC: while Nevada was losing to Hawaii and barely escaping Fresno State by two points, Boise was beating those teams by a combined score of 93-7.

   But when I saw Michigan State was five spots lower than the Wisconsin team it beat by ten, I knew a rule about head to head wins wasn’t the reason. So how can Boise State be so low?

   I don’t know what you drink or smoke when you make out your top 25, but you should lay off, because it is perpetually terrible.

2. If Boise State is “head and shoulders” above Nevada, they should not have lost to them.

3. wolfman, much as it pains me to do it, i have go agree your poll is a tad kooky!

   insofar as you status as a pollster, you get one more year, like NeuHassle!

   i’m sorry wolfman, i didn’t mean it, it’s just that dang game has me all ticked off!! you’re still the best wolfman!! (sniffle)

4. dood, VT at 18 is a joke. Even with the loss to JMU, they’ve won 11 straight and smoked Florida State last night. It’ll be shame for Scooter when Number 18 beats Number 4 in the Orange Bowl, but then again, Scott will probably have Stanford ranked higher at the end of the game.

5. Really, who gives a @*#! what Scott thinks…

6. There you are stupedjones, we thought you had killed yourself. Thanks for showing up this morning.

   Rumor has it Westlake is playing UCLA next week. Any predictions?

7. @Edward – because when you play on the road on a Friday night in a rivalry game, weird things happen. Like the offense going into a second half shell… or the kicker missing a chip shot field goal to win the game.

   Teams lose to inferior teams ALL THE TIME. How else could you explain SC going down at Oregon State two years ago with (in many people’s minds – and not just Trojan fans) the best team in the country. Or SC losing at home to Stanford the year before. Or SC losing at the Rose Bowl to a very mediocre ucla team the year before that.

   College teams are made up of 18,19,20, and 21 year old kids. They’re up. They’re down. They play like their age dictates they play – inconsistent.

   Anyone who does not believe Boise State is much better than Nevada hasn’t been watching college football this year. (I live in Fresno, so I see a whole lot of WAC football games… unfortunately)

8. so are you still going to rank TCU #2 after Wisconsin beats them up and down the field all day???

   I think the real truth is that nobody can really rank teams from different confrences.

   Take the pac10. We all know Oregon is 1, Stanford is 2, etc.
   But how can anyone say with certaintly, who is better between this group: Stanford, Wisconsin, Oklahoma?

   But some things are constant from year to year.
   Like when teams from bush leagues get ranked higher than they should be because they don’t play anybody.

   TCU / Wisconsin will be just like that Hawaii / Georgia game a few years back – an annihilation.

   Too bad Boise st doesn’t get to get creamed by Stanford, Oklahoma or Ohio st.

   sureshot: I’ll explain it – pac10 teams have good athletes, so the talent gap is not as wide as many people think it is. All you need is for one team to get hot and one to get cold.

9. Sureshot…if you live in Fresno you know what it’s like for a visiting team to come in there and play. BSU got Hawaii and FSU at home, and Nevada got them both on the road. If kicking XP’s and FG’s isn’t part of the sixty-minute game, you have to adjust the whole national rankings, because there were tons of them missed this season. The last four years Nevada has been right near the top of BSU’s toughest opponents. They finally got what they have been working so hard for.

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