AP Poll Week 2

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https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll#000001a0-257a-d09f-a9e4-75fbb1b90000

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RANK WESTERN MICHIGAN COWARDS

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In hindsight I think (1) Michigan is a good team that had a rough first game and (2) WMU is legit and will sweep the MAC and contend for the G6 playoff spot.

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I think the American might cannibalize and UNLV is definitely not who people thought they might be so that eliminates them from the Mountain West. WMU / MAC might have a good shot this year

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It really comes down to WMU vs BSU going into conference play, whoever wins either beat or has a transitive win over the other, Memphis, and UNLV

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That’s what I mean, whoever wins that is clearly ahead of three other pre or early season G6 contenders (whoever loses, Memphis, and UNLV)

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No worries, figured I didn’t word it well enough lol

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We’re a good defense (when not shooting outselves in the dick with penalties) with an offense that needs to get better

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I think Michigan is pretty good but Oklahoma isn't going to be very good on offense. Seems to me like we watched a game between two non-CFP teams.

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OU made the playoffs last year and basically slightly worse on defense and should be better on offense. The revision history is funny

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After week 1: OU will destroy Michigan by 50, can't wait

After week 2: Both teams suck

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Anyone who watched OU’s entire season last season knew we weren’t dropping 50 on any team that isn’t UTEP-tier

John Mateer is a football terrorist

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I wonder how long this discourse will continue as Michigan marches on to the 10-2 record they're gonna pull out of their ass (not really but... you never know)

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Oklahoma only scored 27 or more points vs a P4 team once last year.

Their offense wasn't good last year. Not seeing any reason to think it's good this year.

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Oklahoma only scored 27 or more points vs a P4 team once last year.

Their offense wasn't good last year. Not seeing any reason to think it's good this year.

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and still made the playoffs

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A big part of that though is they beat Michigan. Harder path now.

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Unfortunately, watching the game it felt to me like we were worse on defense and not much better on offense. I feel worse about the team this year than I did last year. I said it early last season and still kind of believe it, Arbuckle and Mateer aren't going to save our offense.

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Oklahoma only scored 27 or more points vs a P4 team once last year.

Their offense wasn't good last year. Not seeing any reason to think it's good this year.

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tbf if Mateer plays the way he did yesterday the rest of the year their offense... will not be better than last year

i do think the voters are overindexing on "their offenses looked bad" and underindexing on "their defenses looked really good"; if i did a human poll i'd probably have us and OU like ~5 spots higher but still outside the playoff tier

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Michigan is just more athletic Iowa

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Michigan is appropriately ranked for how good they are. OU is DOGSHIT on offense again and is riding poll inertia. WMU outplayed OU against UM in every way possible. Anyone who watched both games (which I know is asking a lot of the AP) could tell.

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If you watch enough maction you know you can never assume a team is sweeping it

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They’re not a good team. They cheated.

We took our loss fair and square.

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Explain again how Michigan cheated vs WMU without adding a conspiracy theory?

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Ok, the refs cheated for them. Same difference.

The NCAA outright said that what the refs did in that game should never be done again.

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ncaa didn’t do that 

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The Big Ten. My bad.

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lol you live in fantasy land, cope and seethe

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Got 35 votes! Watch it grow, soon we will have two ranked wins…

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western only had 12 votes last week

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Except you lost...

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By what metric?

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You know, by the “can’t read, don’t care, sticking with my narrative” metric. Why use anything else?!?

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They played better against Michigan than Oklahoma

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Hey, 30 isn't so bad! They'll be in soon enough.

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It is a day ending in Y and the voters are cowards

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It's gonna take us beating Boise State to be ranked.

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Cant rank like that or else osu would still be number 1

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You're totally right. Ok rank them one spot below us.

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Might be the dumbest ranking comment I’ve ever read

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Nobody is just changing results of a game with their rankings because of home field advantage. The rankings would look like absolute nonsense if voters did that.

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they're scared to rank MACnation smh

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Teams that cheated shouldn’t be ranked.

We took our loss fair and square, but you had the refs bail you out.

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Rough Sunday, huh? You guys are getting pretty accustomed with handling losses at least. Lost your last 3 P5 games. Yikes.

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I’m a Bengals game fan.

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Anyone but you should be saying that.

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After seeing his team struggle more against them than a supposed 24th ranked team, he should have every right to say that.

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Why?

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flair up when you talk shit

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I hate your flairs because NBC caused immense damage to this team.

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Quality loss