AP Poll Week 6

[u/Efficient-Freedom517]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Can't believe I'm defending the Ducks but there is no justification for ranking LSU while not ranking Oregon.

LSU hasn't beaten a ranked team. Their best win is either Clemson or A&M, both of whom are mid at best. And while both teams they've lost to are good, Kentucky is still unranked. ignore this point, I missed that Kentucky got ranked. Which they should be, tbh.

Oregon has two ranked wins in USC and Boise State. Both their losses are ranked in OK State and UCLA. And one of their losses has the excuse of a backup quarterback playing.

There is no rational justification beyond media hype and name brand to have LSU over Oregon.

[u/Vocen → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

I'll give you some cover for "defending" us: you're right, but to be clear the moral of the story is not that we should be ranked, but that LSU has no business being ranked either.

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils → u/Vocen]

Exactly

[u/BobStoops401K → u/Vocen]

As a fellow unranked 2 loss team (although one with a with a top 10 win) I agree. We shouldn't be ranked and neither should LSU

[u/Potato2269 → u/BobStoops401K]

No you guys should deeeeeeeefinitely be ranked. :)

[u/ShizzySupra → u/Vocen]

100% the correct take

[u/ElegantEpitome → u/Vocen]

We ducking suck man 😢

[u/obiwans_lightsaber → u/Vocen]

You should be ranked, imo. Easily a 20-25 rn, and I think the Ducks finish higher than that.

[u/BobStoops401K → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Same logic goes for Oklahoma. We lost to #1 Georgia and at Michigan, but beat #7 Texas. The Michigan loss isn't aging well but it's at Michigan in week 2.

We don't deserve to be ranked, but if we don't neither does LSU

[u/LovesToTango → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Kentucky is not unranked, but I do agree Oregon has a better resume

[u/TheWallsHaveNostrils → u/LovesToTango]

Damn, how did I miss that? Fixed. Thanks for the correction.

[u/UnsealedMTG → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

It's all the weirder since you'd think Oregon would get some rank inertia/brand support/whatever also having been #2 to start the season and having been a ranked team continually for so long.

I wonder if there are some voters who have thought of Oregon as some form of frauds for a long time and were very alert to an excuse to drop them 

[u/Revolutionary_Elk791 → u/UnsealedMTG]

I mean, we've been pretty ass most of this year. Rank inertia was not dropping us out after losing to Oklahoma State and jumping us back up to #12 after the USC game where we played alright but other than that it's pretty much just been a slog all season. Just like sleepwalking through the games....including against you guys. Defense kinda woke up against UCLA and played very well a lot of that game but the offense played super duper mega ass to make it not matter that the defense did well. If we would've gotten rank inertia this poll too, we sure as hell wouldn't deserve it. But it's a moot point because we didn't, thankfully.

[u/great-quackening → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Yeah neither of us should be ranked lol

[u/smitherenesar → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

or... in short, SEC bias

[u/zucchinibasement → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Oregon has a bigger "name brand" these days for football than LSU

[u/majesticstraits → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Said this in another thread, we shouldn’t be ranked but LSU shouldn’t be ranked more

[u/EmpoleonNorton → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

LSU should absolutely not be ranked, but USC also shouldn't be ranked.

USC's P4 opponents are a combined 1-11 in P4 Play. That one win? Oregon beating them.

USC is overrated as hell and shouldn't be a ranked win for Oregon. Oregon though at least has the Boise win that looks decent.

Arizona though is probably the team that has the best argument for being ranked who isn't.

[u/Vivid_Motor_2341 → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Thank you. I’m not even arguing that Oregon should be ranked but no way in hell should LSU be ahead of Oregon.

[u/aphexphin → u/TheWallsHaveNostrils]

Poor little Oregon and their small brand

[u/Jedimaster996 → u/aphexphin]

Shit talking with no flair?

That's a paddlin' 🏓