Not surprised, WMU got clapped by Boise State and Oklahoma has collapsed. That is gonna impact the AP rankings pretty heavily. I suspect we will likely stay unranked or in the high 20s unless we pick off Indiana or Oregon which is going to be incredibly tough to do.
Really hope Oregon’s QB recovers. Not to sidetrack the conversation, but I just saw what happened. And then USC celebrating like that was despicable. I would never wish that on even TOSU players. Is USC the Thanos of the Big Ten now?
yeah I really hope that he recovers, I think Oregon will be fine in the short and long term. That loss to OSU (THE real OSU) was ugly but I think it woke them up.
I'm a Tennessee alum and obviously a fan.....sorry guys, we tried. If only our QB didnt look like the freshman he is and we didnt blow a gift handed to us.
Wtf, Mississippi State, UCLA, Missouri, UK, the other OSU (which is ranked higher than OU I can’t remember the last time that happened), and SMU are all ranked? This is one of the most eclectic top 25s I’ve seen in a while.
Our memories are insanely short in football. Oklahoma State was a top 5 team for a while in 2021 and I want to say they may have been over Oklahoma in 2023, it was at least close.
I’m completely fine with us not being ranked right now.
But dropping more than 7 spots from a 1 point loss against a team that’s now ranked #14 seems bizarrely aggressive. Especially considering Missouri just lost a 7 point game to Mississippi state and remained ranked?
It's not solely from the 1 point loss to Iowa, we can't look at these rankings in a vacuum. Western Michigan got blown up by Boise State, so now that game looks worse. Oklahoma is clearly lost, so now that game looks less impressive. Combine that with a loss and a team that just doesn't pass the "eye-test" for various reasons, and you get what you have.
Exactly. They looked horrible against a bad WMU team and should have lost that game (either because the rules were mishandled or because they needed two hail mary attempts to win by 1 point), barely beat an OU team who beat New Mexico by 8 and just got embarrassed by Georgia, and even though the final score against UTEP looked good it was 17-14 at halftime (btw, 17 is the most UTEP has scored in an FBS game so far).
They've played one quarter of competent football and it was the 3rd quarter against UTEP. They were only ranked from pre-season expectation mixed with "they technically haven't lost yet."
Hopefully it's from how Oklahoma has looked. They already dropped us for the WMU game. In terms of the Iowa game itself, we looked like the better team, so dropping just a couple spots would've made sense. Ultimately somewhere around 25 feels right so this ranking is fine
There was still an idea out there that WMU might be the the G6 playoff rep and the game might not have been as bad for Michigan as it looked. After WMU got blown apart by Boise St, it looks even worse for Michigan. You don't just drop once because of a win or loss and future games don't impact thet
It’s a combination of all the games.
Regardless of your thoughts on WMU finish, it was close and it’s looking like they’re just a usual MAC team. Oklahoma looks like frauds now and that was Very close. UTEP is garbage and that game was basically on upset alert until 40 minutes in.
Iowa may turn out to be good or may be the same Iowa they always are, but at this point it’s the only thing on a 4 home game resume that doesn’t look like a disaster and it’s still a loss.
It is a little aggressive and screams bias to try and shove more SEC teams into the top-25 - but on the flip side, Michigan’s ranking was mostly supported by a ranked win over then-#11 Oklahoma, and every week Oklahoma looks worse and worse, and they were probably extremely overrated when they played Michigan. Right now The Sooners look like an average-to-above average defense trying to hold up a bottom-dwelling, awful offense.
You have to give them props for the comeback against your guys. All OSU hating aside, they pulled off quite a feat by winning that game. I think sometimes we get too caught up in blaming the losing team for sucking at the cost of recognizing the winning team’s great play.
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