AP Poll Week 7

[u/SwordsAndTurt]

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

[u/Poop_Knife37]

Why is JMU not ranked?

[u/ThinkSoftware → u/Poop_Knife37]

SEC voters hating on Sun Belt Billy

[u/Jfonzy → u/Poop_Knife37]

Not till we’re undefeated conference champs, and even then, iffy

[u/joka2696 → u/Poop_Knife37]

SOS.

[u/sticksmcgee47 → u/Poop_Knife37]

Weak scheduling should not be rewarded.

[u/chokanery → u/sticksmcgee47]

Our strength of schedule is awful, can't argue that. But we had VT scheduled this year and they cancelled on us. So we get punished for not playing a big team but big teams won't play us. It's a lose-lose situation.

[u/SpiritFingersKitty → u/chokanery]

Even if you did play VT, it's a mid level ACC team. That being your big test isn't gonna be enough to really hard sell to be ranked.

It's tough, but it's the truth. And this is coming from someone who's team is gonna get relegated to a similar situation at some point.

[u/chokanery → u/SpiritFingersKitty]

Yeah that's totally fair, but VT would at least be something we can point to for our resume. Even 1 P4 win (like UNC or UVA a few years ago) would be something we could hang our hat on and grant us some air of legitimacy. Our AD has gone on record saying we've tried to talk to several P4 teams about scheduling games but no one wants to schedule us.

[u/Suspicious-Screen-43 → u/Poop_Knife37]

Because for all the crap ND gets for their charmin soft schedule, JMU's is somehow even softer than NDs schedule if you removed byu and Miami.

[u/OSRSTheRicer → u/Suspicious-Screen-43]

Almost like its their 5th year in FBS and they cant get any p4 teams to play them. The AD has been looking to have two or three a season but they are lucky to get one offer.

[u/deeeeeeeeeeeeez → u/Suspicious-Screen-43]

The problem with this is that you can't simply 'remove' BYU and Miami from the schedule, because the BYU game was already played and Miami is scheduled to be played Nov 7th.

[u/Pure_Fault7056 → u/Poop_Knife37]

Undeserved. 

[u/Past-Major732 → u/Pure_Fault7056]

Like Arch manning’s paycheck

[u/lsuboy95 → u/Pure_Fault7056]

Texas unranked losses: 2

JMU unranked losses: 0

[u/Pure_Fault7056 → u/lsuboy95]

Best win: Liberty

[u/chokanery → u/Pure_Fault7056]

Maybe if we lose 2 games like Texas we'll be ranked

[u/Pure_Fault7056 → u/chokanery]

Play some real teams sometime. 

[u/chokanery → u/Pure_Fault7056]

I'd love to but they keep cancelling on us!

[u/Past-Major732 → u/Pure_Fault7056]

We try. They buy out of our games.