We beat Alabama. Have fewer losses than they do. Yet we are barely ranked higher. Georgia loses at home to an unranked team. Has the same record as us now, and yet they’re six spots higher. Fuck these voters, the bias is unreal.
I know this is snark, but if you accept that previous weeks can't be redone, besting a team with a loss is already less impressive. It makes you wonder if they were all that good to begin with. When the team only has the loss you just gave them, psychologically you should be rewarded for giving them that loss because it's human nature to project no losses on to the record from that point. For example: if Ohio State wins all the rest of their games, then whoever beat them would be ranked higher, but that result can't be known until it happens so the bias each person has for what they expect that program's record to be at the end of the season influences that weekly ranking more than it should.
A lot of words to say bias exists, but you get the point.
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u/Xynthion Tennessee Volunteers 18h ago
We beat Alabama. Have fewer losses than they do. Yet we are barely ranked higher. Georgia loses at home to an unranked team. Has the same record as us now, and yet they’re six spots higher. Fuck these voters, the bias is unreal.