And I’ll ask you the same question you couldn’t answer last week: who are the best teams beyond the Top 4?
You like to tell us how much CFB you watch, so I’m not sure why you struggle to list examples. My guess is you don’t want to look bad when those teams lose.
I see an elite Top 4, a very promising Wisconsin team, and a bunch of teams with huge holes. We’ve beaten every team on our schedule within that group. That’s good.
Average does not mean “every team outside of the Top 4.” It means in the middle of everyone. We are better than that by any objective measure.
There’s a big difference between saying “anybody between No. 5 and No. 60 can beat each other on any given Saturday,” which is true, and that because of this, all these teams are average or of the same caliber, which is not true.
Indiana beat PSU yesterday. PSU’s post game win expectancy was over 95%. But forget yesterdays game... if PSU played Indiana 100x, PSU would win more times than they’d lose, because they are the better team. A ~50th ranked Indiana team is not the same caliber as a 5th ranked PSU team, even though they can beat them any given week and beat them yesterday.
We are 12th in today’s AP poll because we continue to win games, and that’s what matters. Realistically, we should be somewhere between 15-25, with my best guess being 17-19. A top 20 team is, by definition, above average, considering that 79 teams had already played coming into yesterday.
We are flawed and we all agree on that. But it feels different than 2017, when Rosier couldn’t hit the wide side of a barn and we were living off turnover luck. This team hasn’t played a complete game yet, and we haven’t seen the best of King. Hopefully we continue to improve and keep winning. The poster who started the thread saying we should root for losses is an idiot. Mopes will mope. I’m happy we are 5-1. Bring on NC State.