RE: Decent bowl bid for the Pack, GREAT bowl bid for NIU
are State fans really riding the coattails of a MAC team? my goodness
- Posted by sportznut628
Not sure how you arrove at THAT conclusion.
RE: Decent bowl bid for the Pack, GREAT bowl bid for NIU
Pretty sad when NIU gets a huge bowl like this one. Come on. Look at who they played. Loads of teams more deserving. The computer is whacked. It takes some common sense to get it right. This is what hurts the most. Great teams work too hard to be given a slap like this one.
- Posted by Hokie 94
You say the computer is whacked. I agree. But Northern Illinois was ranked higher in the human polls than it was in the computers. So which is more whacked?
I think we have to abandon the notion that the human polls are intended to rank teams in relative order of their strength. They are not. They are simply a handicapped version of won-loss records of teams that don't play comparable schedules. Nobody accepts that a 12-0 team from the MAC is as good as a 12-0 team from the SEC. So they get a "handicap" in the voting for being in a weak league. The same is true for a 12-0 Big East team, but the handicap is smaller, and so on up the food chain.
Over time, an individual school like Boise State can earn a smaller handicap than their conference affiliation would warrant. This leads to many cases where teams are ranked higher than they deserve by people who would agree that they don't really deserve the ranking they themselves gave.
It's all a game. Many voters are simply trying to effect matchups that they would like to watch.
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