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Shades
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 Posted: 12/15/14 1:35 pm ::: |
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Same top 14 as last week. That's gotta be pretty rare.
Only 3 teams lost a game last week, and two of those teams didn't drop in the poll.
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beknighted
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| Posted: 12/15/14 3:09 pm ::: |
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Yeah, it must be. A very boring week from that perspective.
Honestly, I was a bit surprised Rutgers didn't drop after the Tennessee loss, even though the final score was not really indicative of the game.
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| Posted: 12/15/14 4:22 pm ::: |
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| Oddly, GA and Or St swapped places, despite neither playing a game. How often does that happen?
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Phil
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| Posted: 12/15/14 4:24 pm ::: |
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| beknighted wrote: |
Yeah, it must be. A very boring week from that perspective.
Honestly, I was a bit surprised Rutgers didn't drop after the Tennessee loss, even though the final score was not really indicative of the game. |
This is a rare example of a situation where voters could justify moving both teams down. What a horrendous game. Neither team is as good as I had previously thought.
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| Posted: 12/15/14 6:26 pm ::: |
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It's odd, as long as I have been watching UT and Rutgers, for some reason they rarely play well against each other, though there have been some notable exceptions. Most of the time they seem to bring out the worst in each other and yesterday was a prime example.
One of my gripes with the polls in general is that those voting look only at Ws and Ls and not against whom or how those occurred. For example, I think you could make a case for moving DePaul up and Notre Dame down a notch each, based on their game which, true, ND won, but required much more effort than they should have needed to do so. But that sort of thing is rarely, if ever, taken into consideration.
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Colerr
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| Posted: 12/15/14 7:03 pm ::: |
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| Phil wrote: |
| beknighted wrote: |
Yeah, it must be. A very boring week from that perspective.
Honestly, I was a bit surprised Rutgers didn't drop after the Tennessee loss, even though the final score was not really indicative of the game. |
This is a rare example of a situation where voters could justify moving both teams down. What a horrendous game. Neither team is as good as I had previously thought. |
I wouldn't judge RU on this one game alone. Yes, we sucked yesterday. But I didn't see the same team I've seen for the first 9 games of the season yesterday.
I'm sure we'll see see that same RU team that played UNC, after Christmas break going into B1G play. Still love our chances to win the B1G.
And hopefully Laney's injury isn't major, and this six day break is long enough to heal it, and she won't miss games.
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ladydawgs96
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| Posted: 12/16/14 7:42 am ::: |
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| beknighted wrote: |
| Yeah, it must be. A very boring week from that perspective. |
Aren't most schools in the middle of finals breaks? Fewer games mean less chances for a loss. Take Georgia, for example, they last played Sunday 12/7 and will not play again until this Saturday 12/20.
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