Every single top 25 poll has teams with more losses ranked ahead of teams with fewer losses.
"Oh but it's different, if we're talking 8-5 vs 9-4!"
It is. Just calling it out, nothing more.
For me personally, not at all.
And that example is no where near relevant to 8-5 Iowa being #34 while 9-4 Minnesota is #30.
SEC team that goes 3-5 in the conference, but it's still the SEC, and that was considered a "down" year for them, probably doesn't have very good players at every position.
Yep, I bet a lot of people buy that ....
Doh!
I had a 50/50 chance and for some reason didn't take 3 sec to look it up. Thanks for correcting me here
This sentence, all around:
Terrible!
ISU had one of the best defenses in the country, they just had an awful offense. Incredible how similar they were to Iowa, in that regard, in the same year.
Big 12 is "weak" but produces a natty game participant.
Four of their eight (all in conference) losses were by 4 points or less, two more were one-score games, the loss to OU was two-score, and then the last game of the year they got smoked at TCU (probably the only time anyone here actually watched them, and is entirely what they are basing their opinion on). Yeah, that's all valid to chuck out the window.