#15 in the AP poll

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Well, they didn't reward Texas (#21) nearly as well as I would have (I'd have said about #9 or #10).

And they way over-reacted with Kentucky (#9) in exactly the same way they over-reacted with Florida (now #18) the week prior. They'll never learn. :)

I personally think they penalized Pitt (#23) too harshly. If we're #15, and the game was that close, they could've left Pitt at #17.

Other than that, and continuing to over-rate Utah (#14), I like this poll. I think it's the first semi-accurate one of the 2022 season.

Go Vols!
 
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VolArmy74 said:
I see the AP is just as bad as the coaches and slots Utah in ahead of Florida. I don't see how you can vote a team ahead of another team with the same record, when they just lost a head to head match up.
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Because the quality of the loss vs Florida was better than the quality of the loss vs Kentucky Would be my guess as to what you’re looking at. There’s more to it than just “put them ahead because they won the head to head.”
 
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CNCVol88 said:
Because the quality of the loss vs Florida was better than the quality of the loss vs Kentucky Would be my guess as to what you’re looking at. There’s more to it than just “put them ahead because they won the head to head.”
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Florida was unranked when Utah lost to them. Kentucky was ranked.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Well, they didn't reward Texas (#21) nearly as well as I would have (I'd have said about #9 or #10).

And they way over-reacted with Kentucky (#9) in exactly the same way they over-reacted with Florida (now #18) the week prior. They'll never learn. :)

I personally think they penalized Pitt (#23) too harshly. If we're #15, and the game was that close, they could've left Pitt at #17.

Other than that, and continuing to over-rate Utah (#14), I like this poll. I think it's the first semi-accurate one of the 2022 season.

Go Vols!
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Ky at #9 in the country is NOT accurate
 
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CNCVol88 said:
Because the quality of the loss vs Florida was better than the quality of the loss vs Kentucky Would be my guess as to what you’re looking at. There’s more to it than just “put them ahead because they won the head to head.”
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Head to head vs "better" loss seems a no brainer. Kentucky is better than Florida, Florida is better than Utah. There's no way to see it otherwise unless you vote in polls.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
Head to head vs "better" loss seems a no brainer. Kentucky is better than Florida, Florida is better than Utah. There's no way to see it otherwise unless you vote in polls.
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Until Utah beats Kentucky and you get an "impossible triangle."

You see impossible triangles every year. They only defy logic for folks who don't understand the fuzzy nature of a college football team. It's not a known quantity. It's a blob of potential that ebbs and flows to reach or fall from that upper limit, week to week.

Poll voters recognize that. Which is how they 'solve' impossible triangles and sometimes, sometimes, vote team A ahead of B even if B beat A earlier in the season.

[I happen to agree with you that Kentucky is, on average, a better football team than Florida, which probably is, on average, a bit better than Utah. That doesn't mean any one of them couldn't beat the other two on any given weekend.]
 
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