I respect your opinion more than anyone on this board about bracketology and I'm sure you've answered questions all night. However, how does a loss to Alabama knock Tennessee down six or seven spots, but a Kentucky loss to a bad RPI team, like Vanderbilt still keep them ahead of Tennessee in the pecking order?
Thanks.
I can't speak for Lunardi's pecking order. And, I haven't finished updating my own ranking system. I am working on it now though.
Regarding UK, I think if the Committee ignored the fact that Noel is out and just evaluated their season, then UK would probably get in. They're ranked a little higher than us in the computers and, FWIW, finished ahead of us in the SEC. But, the Committee may focus on UK's post-Noel performance away from Rupp and exclude them. As I type, that became much more likely with Ole Miss going up with one second left.
It doesn't make sense for UK's position, relative to ours, to improve today. But, if they entered today ahead of us, then losing to a worse team than we did probably isn't going to cause us to jump them.
If we get in, and UK doesn't, it's going to be because the Committee focused on their 0-4 away record without Noel, all of which I think came by double digits. Getting drilled by Vandy could be their tipping point, if they were weighing the bad away record against the two quality home wins over UF and Missouri.