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The Insane Bias Continues

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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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Biscuit co-founded HerLoyalSons in partnership with his ND roommate (Dillon Hall baby!), MQ, in 2006 and has been ranting about ND Football and everything Notre Dame since. He strongly believes in the mission of ND and its football program. Biscuit expects logic and data in arguments and will absolutely crush you if you come to a debate missing one or the other. He despises everything Michigan, and his favorite pastime is mocking Purdue.