Tennessee Remains Ranked At #7 FPI

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ESPN Football Power Index - 2016 - ESPN




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What this appears to do is factor in who plays who the rest of the year. The other polls are a point in time. As teams lose, they fall in those polls. This one factors that in as games are played - comparing teams that have played as well as teams that have not played yet. - At least that is how I read it.
 
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I'm assuming the show names on the end of that gif represent this year's negavols...

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ESPN FPI has it much closer to being right than the polls show. I think 7th or 8th is about right for RPI. The polls shouldn't have dropped us below #11th or #12th.

Bama sure would have been treated differently. They would have stayed & would not have dropped in anything. The polls or RPI.
 
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bamawriter said:
Given that Oklahoma is at #8 while Houston is at #30, it doesn't appear that the FPI reacts at all.
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What makes you think Houston could do better against Oklahoma's schedule than Oklahoma?

One game is just one game. This isn't basketball or baseball where teams play best of 7 series and we find out who is truly the better team.

It's possible Houston simply had a good day that day and Oklahoma a bad one.
 
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bamawriter said:
Given that Oklahoma is at #8 while Houston is at #30, it doesn't appear that the FPI reacts at all.
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OU still have quite a few ranked teams on their schedule and is projected to win all those game. Houston has only one team currently ranked left and they are projected to lose.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
What makes you think Houston could to better against Oklahoma's schedule than Oklahoma?

One game is just one game. This isn't basketball or baseball where teams play best of 7 series and we find out who is truly the better team.

It's possible Houston simply had a good day that day and Oklahoma a bad one.
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That's fine. But I think Houston will do better against Houston's schedule than OU will do against OU's. A system based upon "projections" as opposed to results might as well be picking random names out of a hat.
 
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bamawriter said:
That's fine. But I think Houston will do better against Houston's schedule than OU will do against OU's. A system based upon "projections" as opposed to results might as well be picking random names out of a hat.
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No. This system just realizes one game is just that. One game.
 
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tonybologna said:
ESPN FPI has it much closer to being right than the polls show. I think 7th or 8th is about right for RPI. The polls shouldn't have dropped us below #11th or #12th.

Bama sure would have been treated differently. They would have stayed & would not have dropped in anything. The polls or RPI.
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Bama also has been the most consistently excellent team in CFB for the last 7-8 years winning what is it, 4 NC's now? SO yeah they probably wouldn't drop.
 
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bamawriter said:
Or in the case of Oklahoma and Houston, one game really isn't a game at all.
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No, the FPI recognized that the game happened. What it apparently didn't recognize was any significant shift in the indicators it uses in its formulae as a result of that game.

Would be fascinating to hear one of the ESPN FPI-statisticians explain those formulae in detail, and explain how the OU-Houston outcome failed to nudge the gauges much at all.

One thing is nice to see: a system that doesn't over-react to one week's worth of feedback. Sometimes you want a little less fast-twitch fiber and a little more slow-twitch; early season polls and rankings seem to me to be one of those times.
 
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Dobbs 4 Heisman said:
What makes you think Houston could do better against Oklahoma's schedule than Oklahoma?

One game is just one game. This isn't basketball or baseball where teams play best of 7 series and we find out who is truly the better team.

It's possible Houston simply had a good day that day and Oklahoma a bad one.
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Hmmmm, I submit winners have good days and losers have bad days. How many losers have good days when they lose?
 
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