The Insane Bias Continues
So this week there were a few close calls. Close calls for Top 10 teams against unranked, unrespected opponents. In particular, Texas eaked out a win over lowly Texas Tech (5-4) in a comeback. What are the headlines? Stuff like “Texas Proves it’s a Winner”, “McCoy Comes into His Own as a Leader”, blah blah blah. And Tennessee struggled with not-good South Carolina (5-3), pulling out a win there by a touch. This SC is also unranked. Again, glowing headlines about the Vols’ “mettle” in winning this game. Finally, Auburn had to come back against SAD competition from Ole Miss, a great school whose football team is not as they are 2-7 on the year.
What happened in the polls? Texas moved UP a spot from 5 to 4, and the Vols stayed right where they were at 8. Auburn struggles with a 2-7 Ole Miss squad and and they move UP a spot as well from 7 to 6. Hmmmm, okay. So three Top 10 teams struggled to beat unranked opponents with one of the teams (TX) needing a huge comeback to do it? Sound familiar? ND did it last week against UCLA. Know what happened to them? Headlines: “Irish Struggle”, “Weaknesses Appear”, blah blah blah. And in the polls? ND DROPS TWO SPOTS.
Someone tell me what is going on. I feel like I’m taking CRAZY PILLS OR SOMETHING!
And don’t even get me started on USC’s rank of 9 in both polls vs. ND’s 11 and 10. ND is a 1-loss team with that loss coming to #2 Michigan. USC has the same record, but with a loss to #36 Oregon State. I don’t care if they almost came back, I don’t care if OSU got lucky to pull out the win. They got BEAT by #36 OSU, and were WAY behind early, and have not beaten anyone with maybe the exception of Arkansas. So how does ND stay below USC? Get on your knees pollsters…
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[…] Example 2: We’ll head over to Her Loyal Sons for this one: So this week there were a few close calls. Close calls for Top 10 teams against unranked, unrespected opponents. In particular, Texas eaked out a win over lowly Texas Tech (5-4) in a comeback. What are the headlines? Stuff like “Texas Proves it’s a Winner”, “McCoy Comes into His Own as a Leader”, blah blah blah. And Tennessee struggled with not-good South Carolina (5-3), pulling out a win there by a touch. This SC is also unranked. Again, glowing headlines about the Vols’ “mettle” in winning this game. Finally, Auburn had to come back against SAD competition from Ole Miss, a great school whose football team is not as they are 2-7 on the year. […]
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