#15 in the AP poll

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VolFreakJosh said:
They still lost.

There’s no participation trophies
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That’s cute but it’s not about a “participation trophy.” It’s about their performance. They showed themselves to be a significantly better team than many thought. Personally I expected them to get blown out, and that was before losing qb1.
 
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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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What? On what basis are Ohio State and Michigan in the Top 10? Have you looked at Michigan's schedule? It's #112 out of 128.
 
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It's a nice gesture, but I don't think they should even rank teams until at least 4 games into the season.
 
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johnboyhunter said:
A&M fell like a load of bricks, but who out there now wants to play App State? They scored 40 points in the 4th Qtr against UNC the week before. Probably a bunch of no stars with a few 2 stars. Coaches doing a hell of a job in Boone.
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Never schedule App State, never.😁
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
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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I recognize your point but Utah really has given no metric still to be ranked over Florida. They beat a nobody badly. Florida still beat them head to head has the same record as them and a tougher schedule to this point. There is no metric in which Utah should be ranked above Florida at this point. Unless the polls just want to rank Utah high so when usc stomps the crap out of them it looks like they played someone.
 
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