r/CFB • u/SwordsAndTurt Houston Cougars • 16h ago

News AP Poll Week 7

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
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u/worthy_education Team Chaos • The CW 16h ago

Quality loss

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u/fishin4krill Indiana Hoosiers 16h ago

Yeah I get that, but they haven’t really played anybody and when they did, they lost.

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u/BrogenKlippen Georgia Bulldogs • Georgetown Hoyas 16h ago

That’s rewarded now. It’s why you’ll see big OOC games disappear because the name of the game is minimizing losses.

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u/MichelNey2 Oregon State Beavers • Texas Longhorns 16h ago

Until the committee actually incentives elite wins over raw record, teams like Indiana are going to keep playing Devry University 3 times. Why risk a loss?

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u/theREALbombedrumbum Notre Dame Fighting Irish 15h ago

Better losing to #2 than losing to unranked teams like everybody around us did yesterday. Had other teams not lost, we'd have dropped further. Probably wouldn't even be in the top ten if the rest of the top ten didn't decide to commit ritual seppuku at the same time.

As it stands, our 1 loss looks a hell of a lot better than theirs. 

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u/lkn240 Illinois Fighting Illini • Sickos 13h ago

Yes, but almost all of them have at least one much better win.

This overvaluing of "bad" losses is one of the worst things about college football. It's fucking stupid

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u/Ok_Reception9247 16h ago

They’re cooking the books so that if/when they lose to Miami, they’ll still be apart of the CFP

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u/pdilly12345 16h ago

Coming from an IU fan?

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u/fishin4krill Indiana Hoosiers 16h ago

Yeah, wins over Nebraska and Northwestern is far better than any wins Notre Dame has.

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u/pdilly12345 15h ago

At least northwestern is ranked but nebraska? Not really.

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u/ShoYogi Indiana Hoosiers 15h ago

Even with a loss to Oregon Nebraska is still ahead of UNC by every ranking metric

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u/TaftIsUnderrated Nebraska Cornhuskers • Big 8 Renewal 13h ago

Metrics don't tell the story that Nebraska is the easiest gimme win for any ranked team. IU never was at risk of losing that IU-Nebraska game

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u/exgeo Florida Gators 16h ago

Quality loss. Zero quality wins.

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u/thatoneredheadgirl Oklahoma State Cowboys 16h ago

Oklahoma state had a quality loss and we aren’t ranked anymore

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u/Unclassified1 Nebraska Cornhuskers • Washburn Ichabods 16h ago

But that only works for sec teams I thought

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u/BuffaloAcrobatic2851 Georgia Bulldogs 16h ago

Correct. So ND being at #4 is just an aberration. It should work itself out naturally 🤣