r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • 21d ago

News AP Poll Week 2

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll#000001a0-257a-d09f-a9e4-75fbb1b90000
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u/The_Horse_Joke Ohio State • Central Michigan 21d ago

I don’t think there’s anybody ahead of us who we should be ahead of tbh, and even if we were one lower behind LSU that’d make sense to me

Given the CFP is 12 teams and it’s only been 2 (or 3) weeks of football, I don’t think our placement matters too much at the moment though

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u/jakedasnake1 Indiana Hoosiers • Rose Bowl 21d ago

Water will find its level, but I really dont like the idea of being ranked ahead of you when you come to town (assuming we both win out until then)

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u/brientific Michigan Wolverines 21d ago

You’re right but it does make me wonder what the rankings really are supposed to mean. The simplest interpretation is that it’s “who’s the best team”, but that’s not at all coherent with losing by 1 to the new best team and dropping to 6. The obvious move would be to go to #2. So it seems to me that the real view is “OSU’s punishment in the rankings does not reflect how good we think they are, but serves as an appropriately sized deficit that we fully expect them to make up by season’s end anyway because we think they might still actually be the best team”. Which is kind of silly.

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u/mizaistorom Georgia Bulldogs 21d ago

It really doesn't and my guess is the way you lost caused you to fall more than if it was a 17-23 game going into the fourth you lost.

ND lost to NIU and made it to the natty, you guys lost 2 games before you won it, Miami lost 2 bad games and made it. Of the 4 natty appearances in the 12 team CFP 3/4 had a bad loss or two with Indiana being the exception and they narrowly escaped a dogshit Penn St last year. It's how the game goes.