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Originally posted by AL9045
So if a team loses they are bad? I will agree they are probably out of the championship picture, but they will still play some good teams.
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If a good team loses to someone who is poorly ranked, the computers drop kick them to the corner.
Last week, Kansas State was #16 in Colley's rankings. Now they're #42. Sagarin dropped them from #15 to #19, but right now they're inflated in Sagarin's due to having one game more than everyone else; they'll plumment next week on their bye week. Billingsley and Massey have yet to report this week, but don't be surprised at 10-20 place drops in those. (Three BCS computer polls won't report results until mid-October.)
Lest you think the computers are irrelevant, ask Marshall from 1999. Even if they had finished first in both AP and ESPN, they wouldn't have been 10th in the BCS because of the computers. {Source: CollegeBCS.com}
As for my opinion on Kansas State, a steady diet of cupcakes won't get you into shape for the Conference Run, especially when one of the cupcakes bite back. I didn't think they were a legitmate contender to begin with.