Predicting AP Top 5 as of Monday 2/10

[hUTch2002]

They wanted Auburn and Bama 1 vs 2. I’m shocked Duke didn’t drop outside the top 4 and let Florida and Tennessee move up. Maybe we would be #4 instead of Florida had we beat them by 31!

Thanks to the coaches putting Bama first it’s 1 vs 1!

 

[hUTch2002]

Your surprise surprises me. Blue blood w the best player in the country, down conference year or not, isn’t taking much of a hit against the second best team in that conference on, especially the road.

I’m surprisingly surprised at your surprise of his surprising surprise.

 

[pimo1]

Your surprise surprises me. Blue blood w the best player in the country, down conference year or not, isn’t taking much of a hit against the second best team in that conference on, especially the road.

The second-best team in their conference was not even freaking ranked in the AP until they beat Duke.

Being the second-best team in the SEC, Big Ten, Pac10 heck the MAC means something. Being the second best in the ACC this year is nothing. College basketball is a gunfight. Duke Has an AK the rest of the the ACC brought knives. Clemson just brought the biggest knife and caught Duke between reloads.

The worst 2 teams in the SEC have 10 and 12 losses respectively. The next worst in the SEC is 14. There are 9 teams in the SEC with 12 wins or less..a lot less like 5 for Miami and 9 for NC State. Miami has one win against an actual college team their other 4 wins were vs JC's in disguise. They have a win against team that does not even have a full freaking name...Presbyterian is part of a name man.... and their mascot is the Blue Hose.. this writes itself. Presbyterian Blue Hose.

 

[chuckiepoo]

FWIW, I'm going to add one more thing to this discussion
The AP voters, for better or worse, often look at overall records.
Given that you have,

Auburn 21-2
Alabama 20-3
Florida 20-3
Duke 20-3
Tennessee 20-4
Houston 19-4

They don't just go on record or anything, but at lot of the times I've noticed it be the deciding factor when ranking close teams.

Boom!
First correct ranking! Congratulations.

 

[hUTch2002]

The second-best team in their conference was not even freaking ranked in the AP until they beat Duke.

Being the second-best team in the SEC, Big Ten, Pac10 heck the MAC means something. Being the second best in the ACC this year is nothing. College basketball is a gunfight. Duke Has an AK the rest of the the ACC brought knives. Clemson just brought the biggest knife and caught Duke between reloads.

The worst 2 teams in the SEC have 10 and 12 losses respectively. The next worst in the SEC is 14. There are 9 teams in the SEC with 12 wins or less..a lot less like 5 for Miami and 9 for NC State. Miami has one win against an actual college team their other 4 wins were vs JC's in disguise. They have a win against team that does not even have a full freaking name...Presbyterian is part of a name man.... and their mascot is the Blue Hose.. this writes itself. Presbyterian Blue Hose.

Don’t forget the Big West. UC Irvine and UC San Diego both have 20-4 records. UCI has won at Northern Iowa by 20 and beat one of those MAC teams, Kent State, normally not notable, but they did it by holding them to 39 points. They also won at UCSD. UCSD is a little more impressive resume-wise. They lost at San Diego St by 5. Still a loss but SDSU is solid. They beat Toledo (another MAC team and better than Kent St) by 35, and their biggest win is at Utah State, who only has 3 losses. They also won at UCI. It’ll still be a one bid league, as the league just isn’t strong enough to support 2 teams, but I sure wouldn’t count want to see one of those teams in the first round as an 11 or 12 seed. I know you just used MAC to slight the ACC but it just so happened they both played upper half MAC teams. I like your knife-AK analogy. Don’t by knocking the Blue Hose though (like pantyhose?). They actually made the tournament once if I recall correctly. No wait, I think that was their women’s team. Scratch that. Go ahead and make fun.