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Post by volleysean27 on Oct 16, 2006 11:23:32 GMT -5
Stanford at # 4 after beating Ucla and crushing U$C.. the loss to UDUb is a wash since they lost to both FucLA and U$C.. I say Stanford at #3
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Post by ugopher on Oct 16, 2006 11:26:14 GMT -5
Still not sure how Texas stays in the Top 10.
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Post by JT on Oct 16, 2006 11:27:02 GMT -5
I don't think most voters know or care (in general) whether a win is a crush or a 5-game coin-toss. I just took last week's list, looked at the results the AVCA made available, listed whether a team had won or lost, and whether it was good, bad, or indifferent, and then applied the "punish losers, let winners float up" guideline.
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Post by JT on Oct 16, 2006 11:29:31 GMT -5
Still not sure how Texas stays in the Top 10. Why shouldn't they? They were ranked #10 at the beginning of the week, and they didn't lose.
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Post by BoilerUp! on Oct 16, 2006 11:29:54 GMT -5
Thanks ... I didn't realize Ohio State lost both their games this weekend. So that's why they are 3-5 in the Big Ten.
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Post by ugopher on Oct 16, 2006 12:07:26 GMT -5
Still not sure how Texas stays in the Top 10. Why shouldn't they? They were ranked #10 at the beginning of the week, and they didn't lose. Not my intended point. How did they stay in the top 10 after losing to Mizzou and Oklahoma?
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Post by cbrown1709 on Oct 16, 2006 12:11:44 GMT -5
UW couldn't beat either UCLA or USC at home, but still ranked above Stanford, JT? That strikes me as odd.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2006 12:13:15 GMT -5
UW lost to them on the road.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2006 12:14:38 GMT -5
My guess:
1--Nebraska 2--PSU 3--Stanford 4--UCLA (I think UW is a better choice) 5--UW 6--USC 7--Florida 8--Texas 9--Utah 10--Cal
11--Wisconsin 12--Missouri 13--Santa Clara 14--LSU 15--Hawaii 16--Purdue 17--BYU 18--Cal Poly 19--Ohio 20--San Diego
21--Minnesota 22--Oklahoma 23--New Mexico State 24--Duke 25--Ohio State
Not sure what they will do with Tennessee. Maybe OSU gets dropped instead of the Vols?
Minnesota could jump San Diego and maybe Ohio, but I wouldn't count on it.
I don't agree with this ranking, mind you. It's just my guess.
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Post by BearClause on Oct 16, 2006 12:15:36 GMT -5
For some reason, they have traditionally always had problems with the Pacific Northwest road trip, as they were taken to five last year by Gonzaga, and the previous year as well. I keep on hearing that Spokane isn't that bad to get to. The horror stories I hear are about teams going to Pullman or Moscow from Spokane.
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Post by Ye Olde Dawg on Oct 16, 2006 12:42:38 GMT -5
For the ordering of the Pac-10 top 4,I think we'll see different coaches/voters having different opinions about how to rank them. We may well see Stanford, UCLA, USC, and UW bunched so closely that actual rank doesn't matter.
Note that UW just barely swept WSU this weekend. They had a great conference-opening weekend against Cal and Stanford, but they've had several weekends since then that weren't so good. While their ranking won't drop much without an actual surprise result, they may have downward momentum.
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Post by JT on Oct 16, 2006 12:58:29 GMT -5
UW couldn't beat either UCLA or USC at home, but still ranked above Stanford, JT? That strikes me as odd. Washington lost to UCLA and USC three weekends back. I don't think the voters take it into account. Ohio State lost to Minnesota just two weekends back, but I don't see them falling below us, or us rising above them. As I said originally, I don't think it's how the poll should look.
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Post by ugopher on Oct 16, 2006 13:03:23 GMT -5
Let's just get the thing out so the formal complaining can begin!
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