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Louisville - Proof of AP Bias?

Cookie917 said:
It is a combo of 1. preseason rankings and 2. WHEN you lose...

Lville dropped 3 straight, BAD 3 point loss to Cal Nov 8, close loss to clemson Nov 14 and blown out by 30 by SMU Nov 22. Swap out Lville for Missouri and have them lose 3 straight to unranked teams at the end of the season and pretty sure they would have dropped out of the top 25. Miz got the benefit of climbing due to preseason rankings then lost to a solid Vandy team, good A&M team and a **** oklahoma team that the voters loved all year.
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Okay I see your point but in my opinion, once you have 2-3 losses, you should be booted from the rankings until you start beating legitimate teams. Vandy, OU, and TEMU aren’t even the best SEC programs
 
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LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
We all know the AP Rankings are biased and heavily favored SEC/BIG programs that result in unfair metrics in SOS when comparing teams at the end of the season, yet there are yo-yo’s who claim that isn’t true. To these yo-yo’s, explain this one to me:



Louisville (8-4):

-Beat two CFP teams (James Madison, Miami).

-Blanked Kentucky (5-7) 41-0. The same Kentucky team who took Texas and several other top SEC programs to the wire.

-Losses? UVA (10-3) in OT, Clemson (7-5) by 1 point, Cal (7-5) in OT, SMU (8-4) by a wider margin but I believe they were missing some key players that game. Still, all losses came against teams above .500 and were very close. Louisville finished the season unranked.

Missouri (8-4)

-Didn’t beat a team above .500.
-Lost to every decent team they played. Some were close, others weren’t.

Somehow Missouri sits at #25 in the current AP Top 25. Are we seriously going to argue they should be ranked based on “good losses” rather than actually beating a competitive opponent?

Someone needs to explain this one to me. How is this not biased?
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Tennessee didn’t beat a single power 4 team with a winning record all season. They stayed in the top 25 all season. This is only to prop up the strength of schedule for other SEC teams. It’s a joke and more corrupt than a politician.
 
You people keep thinking the tin foil hat is just conspiracy theory but it's actually a blue print to how they do things.

In this application, the ACC has a mandate from ESPN/ABC/Disney who control them.
1*) Protect Clemson. This is the ACC's designated "lion."
2) Get every other team in the conference to be 6-6, thus maximizing the number of bowl eligible teams without ever threatening the SEC's dominance.

The ACC has done this for decades. They do it with in-game officiating and with scheduling. Playing at Cal or Stanford at 10:30PM Eastern is done on purpose. Playing critical Friday night games. When have you ever seen Alabama play Tennessee on a Friday night? Never!


* Now that Clemson has fallen off the pack and the Canes are looking strong, I fully expect to see the Mouse Media empire supporting the Canes over the next couple seasons. We saw it to an extent late in the season this year.
 
LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
We all know the AP Rankings are biased and heavily favored SEC/BIG programs that result in unfair metrics in SOS when comparing teams at the end of the season, yet there are yo-yo’s who claim that isn’t true. To these yo-yo’s, explain this one to me:



Louisville (8-4):

-Beat two CFP teams (James Madison, Miami).

-Blanked Kentucky (5-7) 41-0. The same Kentucky team who took Texas and several other top SEC programs to the wire.

-Losses? UVA (10-3) in OT, Clemson (7-5) by 1 point, Cal (7-5) in OT, SMU (8-4) by a wider margin but I believe they were missing some key players that game. Still, all losses came against teams above .500 and were very close. Louisville finished the season unranked.

Missouri (8-4)

-Didn’t beat a team above .500.
-Lost to every decent team they played. Some were close, others weren’t.

Somehow Missouri sits at #25 in the current AP Top 25. Are we seriously going to argue they should be ranked based on “good losses” rather than actually beating a competitive opponent?

Someone needs to explain this one to me. How is this not biased?
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SEC cheat code on full display, before Missouri joined the SEC they wouldn’t have sniffed the top 25 with that record.
 
Bodie been trying to tell y’all.

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Just to be clear, the SEC programs that are in the playoffs.

Alabama
Georgia
Texas À&M
Oklahoma
Ole Miss

2/5 are transplants from other conferences.

If the conference was always so strong, when Missouri, TAMU, Oklahoma, Texas wouldn't have been able to compete immediately.

Everyone who isn't a fan of an SEC team sees this.

It always has been and willl be a two team conference and the additions to keep up at the top.
 
LeanMeanOrangeGreen said:
We all know the AP Rankings are biased and heavily favored SEC/BIG programs that result in unfair metrics in SOS when comparing teams at the end of the season, yet there are yo-yo’s who claim that isn’t true. To these yo-yo’s, explain this one to me:



Louisville (8-4):

-Beat two CFP teams (James Madison, Miami).

-Blanked Kentucky (5-7) 41-0. The same Kentucky team who took Texas and several other top SEC programs to the wire.

-Losses? UVA (10-3) in OT, Clemson (7-5) by 1 point, Cal (7-5) in OT, SMU (8-4) by a wider margin but I believe they were missing some key players that game. Still, all losses came against teams above .500 and were very close. Louisville finished the season unranked.

Missouri (8-4)

-Didn’t beat a team above .500.
-Lost to every decent team they played. Some were close, others weren’t.

Somehow Missouri sits at #25 in the current AP Top 25. Are we seriously going to argue they should be ranked based on “good losses” rather than actually beating a competitive opponent?

Someone needs to explain this one to me. How is this not biased?
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Who cares what the AP thinks? Those rankings don’t mean anything anymore.
 
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It’s all rigged starting with preseason rankings. There’s is no other reason for them but to prop up certain teams and start the narrative.

Especially with NIL and the portal there is no way anyone knows who will be good this year compared to the past

Look at Indiana for no better example

Do away with rankings until mid October and see what happens.
 
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