Moved up to #13 in AP poll

[volsarelife1]

 

[Volprofch05]

Ugh, one spot behind bama in both hoops and pigskin. We'll need to fix that.

 

[Willy14]

Kentucky dropped to #19. Doesn’t really help them when both the teams they lost to already lost games this week

 

[cardvolfan]

Beat Kansas handily, and still 4 spots behind. This is why human polls are absolutely a joke at best. Anyone got any common sense? Any bias?

 

[ThatVolGuy]

Kinda funny to see all of the SEC teams stacked up in a row. Glad to see us headed back toward the top 10. And yeah, Kansas being ranked above us is funny, but I want them to do really well for the rest of the year to make our resume that much better.

Also, both Duke and North Carolina are faltering early. Pair that with Kentucky being an apparent paper tiger and Gonzaga getting exposed, and the top of the college basketball landscape could look much different this year compared to most of recent history.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Beat Kansas handily, and still 4 spots behind. This is why human polls are absolutely a joke at best. Anyone got any common sense? Any bias?

I’m not surprised. I doubt a neutral court loss to a ranked team would drop Kansas from #3 to #15 or lower. We would have had to make a monumental climb up the polls to pass them. I figured 12 was our ceiling and it looks like we just missed that.

 

[cardvolfan]

I’m not surprised. I doubt a neutral court loss to a ranked team would drop Kansas from #3 to #15 or lower. We would have had to make a monumental climb up the polls to pass them. I figured 12 was our ceiling and it looks like we just missed that.

I’m not surprised either. Just bemoaning the fallacy of human polls.

 

[I4Vols]

Beat Kansas handily, and still 4 spots behind. This is why human polls are absolutely a joke at best. Anyone got any common sense? Any bias?

Ask Lou Holtz and the decision makers who allow people like him to be on the voting committees

 

[Sudden Impact]

When do we play Arizona? Dec 17.
A solid win here gives us more credit.
Hopefully Colorado can win some games as well.
Maryland, Texas as well.
Lots of opportunities.

 

[TNBV]

I’m not surprised either. Just bemoaning the fallacy of human polls.

Stop whining. Kansas lost to a ranked team on a neutral court. We got spanked by Colorado. COLORADO! So should Colorado be ranked above us? Head to head does not work in college basketball rankings.

 

[joevols89]

Nice. Alabama finished 3rd in their tournament this week and jumped us. Guess winning in 4OTs vs UNC cancels out a loss.

 

[DonDiego]

This time of year rankings mean niente.

 

[TNBV]

Nice. Alabama finished 3rd in their tournament this week and jumped us. Guess winning in 4OTs vs UNC cancels out a loss.

Their resume is better than ours. Win over UNC =Kansas, Loss to Colorado >>>loss to #8 Uconn

 

[joevols89]

Their resume is better than ours. Win over UNC =Kansas, Loss to Colorado >>>loss to #8 Uconn

Polls have always been about when you lose. They should’ve made a jump, but not over a team that went 3-0 including a top 5 win.

 

[allvol123]

I’m not surprised. I doubt a neutral court loss to a ranked team would drop Kansas from #3 to #15 or lower. We would have had to make a monumental climb up the polls to pass them. I figured 12 was our ceiling and it looks like we just missed that.

It is just the absurdity of the bias built in.

There might be some validity in February, with more data points.

But you have very few data points right now but one you do have is one team demolishing the other team, yet still ranked behind them. It is bias. Plain and simple. “Kansas has to be good, we told you all in the preseason they were!”

 

[joevols89]

Polls have always been about when you lose. They should’ve made a jump, but not over a team that went 3-0 including a top 5 win.

Also Iowa State had just handled that UNC team prior to Bama beating them.

 

[JoAllan]

Nice. Alabama finished 3rd in their tournament this week and jumped us. Guess winning in 4OTs vs UNC cancels out a loss.

Played 3 ranked teams last week. Got
2 wins 1 loss that will move you up if you don’t have previous losses (or many if it were later in the year).

Also only Conn, Arizona and Purdue moved up more than Tennessee. Each of those had multiple ranked wins last week.

 

[TNBV]

Polls have always been about when you lose. They should’ve made a jump, but not over a team that went 3-0 including a top 5 win.

Tell yourself what you want but the loss to Colorado is a HORRIBLE loss and should absolutely factor in considering we are only 6 games in. Alabama went 2 and 1 beating 2 teams in the top 15 and only losing to a undefeated, now #8 Uconn. We went to overtime with unranked USC. Currently, Alabama has a better resume than we do.

 

[VolsSportsFan]

Lol Auburn is undefeated and actually dropped 2 spots; which tbf they could have easily lost 2 in a row.

 

[joevols89]

Tell yourself what you want but the loss to Colorado is a HORRIBLE loss and should absolutely factor in considering we are only 6 games in. Alabama went 2 and 1 beating 2 teams in the top 15 and only losing to a undefeated, now #8 Uconn. We went to overtime with unranked USC. Currently, Alabama has a better resume than we do.

We already were moved down for the Colorado loss.

 

[TNBV]

We already were moved down for the Colorado loss.

Yes, and Alabama still has a better resume.

 

[joevols89]

Yes, and Alabama still has a better resume.

That’s not how the AP poll works.

 

[Putbacks]

Polls fail….just as poles fail….

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

Placement in the Top 15 doesn't matter in the slightest in November.

 

[TNBV]

That’s not how the AP poll works.

Actually it is in the early season. The only reason UT was ranked above ALA was due to preseason rankings, which mean nothing once you have played games.