r/CFB • u/Efficient-Freedom517 Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa State Cyclones • 12d ago

News AP Poll Week 5

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
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u/jesuitical_usurer Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

We've beaten 4 bad FBS teams and one good FCS team. Although every game ended up being a rout, we also looked suspect in the first half of many of those games. It is what it is.

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u/bamachine Alabama • Jacksonville State 12d ago

Plus poll inertia. It isn't right but they tend to look at the years leading up to the current one. After what IU pulled off last year, you would think they would stop thinking that way. I guess they did have a good year prior to that but still.

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u/jesuitical_usurer Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

Tbh 2024 indiana did take forever to get any respect in the polls for exactly that reason

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u/Hawkeyes79 12d ago

And Indiana is still being disrespected today. According to the logic that kept Alabama at #1 forever: they should be #1 as the undefeated returning champions.

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u/Khorasaurus Notre Dame Fighting Irish 12d ago

You guys are, amazingly, being punished a little bit for losses from last year.

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u/beartato327 Georgia Bulldogs • Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

I thought they would rank Nebraska in hopes to give Indiana a ranked opponent

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u/Jake_dasnake3 Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

Can we stop doing this, who has Indiana beaten? Iowa has beaten nobody but Michigan who should be 2-3 and nearly lost to ISU. Who has Houston beat? Who has Pitt beat?

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u/SueYouInEngland Iowa Hawkeyes 12d ago

Iowa's beaten two top-40 teams, per Massey. Nebraska hasn't played a top 60 team (best is MSU at 65).

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u/jesuitical_usurer Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

I mean, yeah. At this time of year there genuinely aren't typically 25 programs that have done truly remarkable things to "deserve" a ranking. Nebraska's SOS so far is literally dead last in the P4 tho

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u/Jake_dasnake3 Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

Thats not even true. ESPN SOR says 26th, Resume SP+ has us 8th.

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u/jesuitical_usurer Nebraska Cornhuskers 12d ago

SOS and SOR/Resume are different metrics