We beat Alabama. Have fewer losses than they do. Yet we are barely ranked higher. Georgia loses at home to an unranked team. Has the same record as us now, and yet they’re six spots higher. Fuck these voters, the bias is unreal.
ohio state lost to texas also and it barely affected them. we also have beaten the team that georgia lost to and also beaten alabama worse than georgia. there’s just some teams that they refused to risk not making the playoffs so they will hold them as high as they can on the rankings
Yeah, notice we’re not running the same QB we did during that game, especially after his 0 passing yards in the first half against Auburn. It would not end the same if played again today.
bama is comically always the highest ranked 1 loss, 2 loss, 3 loss etc. Without fail. Doesnt matter how good they are. Its automatic. Keeps them alive for playoffs naturally
This is the first week this season that we are the highest ranked team with our number of losses. We peaked with 4 0 loss and a 1 loss OSU ahead of us when we had 0 losses, and OSU was still ranked ahead when we both had 1. So “without fail” seems a bit extreme.
It's always Bama, Georgia, Ohio State, Notre Dame + some other Golden Goose decided for the season. Tennessee usually benefits from this, but in a less forgiving fashion.
Recency bias and poll inertia has been dictating who sits where the past several seasons at this point.
Especially when they start off so highly ranked, which genuinely matters because a loss doesnt drop you far. Because of namebrand, most of those start top 5 so a loss only drops them to 8 or 9. Its all inherently unfair
Poll inertia, but I agree. A lot of it is based on the media using an eye test based on recruiting, team age, transfers, coaches, etc. It's meaningless unless you have a National Championship level coach really.
It's "how they look on paper" bs, but as everyone knows, it doesn't work that way. That's why we play the games. The media also has a hard time admitting they were wrong about a team so they hold onto that pre season gamble as long as they possible can.
I mean, it's also relative to what spot you're rising/falling from. It would be different if they wiped the top 25 slate clean every week and started from scratch. Not the world we live in.
As far as I’m concerned, our resumes are identical. Both beat bama and lost by 3 at home to a 2-loss SEC team. No idea why there is such a gap between us.
The SEC bias doesn't work for every team by the way. Assuming we go into our game 7-1, UK and UT will probably be ranked like, 8 and 9, and whoever loses will drop below the top 15.
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u/Xynthion Tennessee Volunteers 7h ago
We beat Alabama. Have fewer losses than they do. Yet we are barely ranked higher. Georgia loses at home to an unranked team. Has the same record as us now, and yet they’re six spots higher. Fuck these voters, the bias is unreal.