Final AP Poll Rankings (1/10/2023)

#52
#52
vol4220 said:
The season is over but can some explain this to me. How is Michigan ranked above OSU however Tennessee is not ranked above Alabama? In each case they won head to head but yet one team gets the rank and the other dosent? :mad:
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It's like contemplating a sack of hammers.
 
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#53
#53
savannahfan said:
No to be realistic - -
Ga.
OSU
Bama
Mich.
Tenn.
TCU
and everyone else
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We’d beat Michigan and we already beat Bama. I can live with OSU being ranked ahead after their game against UGA. maybe but no one else should be ahead of us.
 
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#54
1989Vol said:
Hot garbage. Bama over us and TCU over any top 10 team.
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Well, they did beat Michigan ...

... but last night was quite an indignity for TCU. I didn't think I would ever see a game played for the National Championship that eclipsed Nebraska's beatdown of Florida from the '96 Fiesta Bowl ... but that game clearly did. I would have rather lost a close game in the semi-final than go through that. That was fugly.
 
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Tennessee just can't get respect. We beat Bama. We also beat LSU who beat Bama. We have the same record as Bama. We beat the ACC champs in the post season whereas Bama beat the #2 team in the Big 12 (whose champion could not hold a candle to the SEC champ). Yet Bama is #5 and Tennessee is #6. Hopefully Heupel can use this to fire some players up.
 
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#56
Hawkeye4588 said:
Tennessee just can't get respect. We beat Bama. We also beat LSU who beat Bama. We have the same record as Bama. We beat the ACC champs in the post season whereas Bama beat the #2 team in the Big 12 (whose champion could not hold a candle to the SEC champ). Yet Bama is #5 and Tennessee is #6. Hopefully Heupel can use this to fire some players up.
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I agree with almost all of it, except K State was the Big 12 Champ.
 
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#57
#57
Mike Berardino can eat the biggest bag of ****. How does a clown like that have a vote. This is why the AP is dumb AF and why they need something better.
 
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#58
#58
We should have been 3 or 4. Anyhow, at this point it doesn't matter until next season. We have Bama at Bama and Georgia at home. My only other game of concern is Texas A&M. We somehow always catch the team in the west when they are on the way up. I don't see another slip up on the schedule. Florida at Florida is always a concern, but honestly I don't see them being any better this year. No way we lose to USCe at home. Kentucky is Kentucky. Mizzou, Vandy and the non conference are easy wins. I can see us at 9-3 to 11-1 at the end of the regular season.
 
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#59
BearCat204 said:
Mike Berardino can eat the biggest bag of ****. How does a clown like that have a vote. This is why the AP is dumb AF and why they need something better.
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Look at the last 2 voters. It’s a poll, so it’s all opinion, but it’s comical that they actually watched the same season.
 
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#60
I saw these rankings when they came out last night and knew it would cause an uproar. Just remember 52-49 and the team can use that bitter taste of losing this year for extra motivation on their playoff run next season.
 
#61
#61
My top 5...

1. Georgia 🤮
2. OSU
3. Meatchicken
4. tcu (only because they made the playoff)
5. Tennessee

I didn't go any further because I just didn't want to list Gump U...
 
#62
#62
Wezcoast said:
Getting blown out by 58 or losing to a team that just got blown out by 58 shouldn't keep you in the top 4 . Don't care if it's playoffs or not.
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It is truly baffling to me how much leeway TCU is given. I cannot think of the logic that allows a team that has lost two of their last three games, one by the largest margin in bowl history, to move up to number 2 in a poll.
 
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daj2576 said:
It is truly baffling to me how much leeway TCU is given. I cannot think of the logic that allows a team that has lost two of their last three games, one by the largest margin in bowl history, to move up to number 2 in a poll.
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It’s straight up logical comedy. Why even have a final poll if the champion is decided on the field and all some writers are going to do is just try and justify their previous votes?
 
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#65
UTFanatic said:
so we beat Bama head to head, have same win/loss record and we played a higher ranked team in the bowls and they are higher? How is that possible?
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AND UT DESTROYED THE OTHER TEAM(LSU) that beat Bama and destroyed them @ LSU!
 
#67
#67
The final poll makes sense in that it's just like most of the CFP rankings when viewed in hindsight; they make no sense. I don't think the folks behind it are necessarily doing a bad job... it's a lose/lose scenario if you are trying to make a CFP be accurate and truly represent the best team. If that happens, it is because of chance merging with intention.

Seeing last night's game and the resulting rankings today is a good check - reminding us to enjoy each game for what it is and not expect the larger NCAA system to mean anything; it doesn't.

It has been obvious for years that if we rank high in the system, we can emotionally justify our "place" whether it is earned or not. If we rank low, we are more likely to be critical and see the incongruities that always exist. CFP exists solely to boost media contract dollars and thus program values. It is obviously imperfect and matters only what fans allow it to matter. Playing a great season, having the most exciting/entertaining games possible, and winning that bowl game are what should matter to a program. The Vols had an incredible season! Last night's game and even this poll hurt the stock of the CFP and the AP poll. Most football fans are smart enough to see them for what they are... advertising conduits.

For the SEC, the sooner the NCAA becomes irrelevant from a media contract/dollar standpoint, the better... maybe. In short, get lost CFP. Go Vols!
 
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#71
#71
Clemson got it worse than us. They beat FSU, won their conference championship, and had a better record but finished 4 spots behind them. That's how dumb AP voters are.
 
#73
#73
OK everyone calm the heck down.
Before the season started, how many of us thought the Vols would go 11-2, beat 4 teams ranked in the final AP top 25, with wins over Alabama, Florida, LSU, be rankled #1 for a hot minute, go to a NY6 bowl and beat Clemson like a drum, and be ranked #6 when the smoke cleared?

As for me and my house, we'll take it.

GBO!!

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