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Post by c4ndlelight on Oct 5, 2015 14:16:11 GMT -5
Oregon is still ranked? Wow.
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Post by vbshrink on Oct 5, 2015 14:23:59 GMT -5
Mizzou looked good against Florida, but that is really their only quality win so far this year. And they dropped a game at home against Tennessee. They will have opportunities to move up into the rankings if they continue winning in SEC play -- though really they don't play a really tough conference opponent until the October 25 rematch with Florida (unless you count Bama as tough ... which they could be, I guess, if they turn it around). They have Mississippi State (x2), Bama, Ole Miss, and Georgia coming up before going to Gainesville. They have two games against TAMU, and single matches against Arkansas and Kentucky later in November.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 5, 2015 14:26:05 GMT -5
I would have put ASU at #3, and flipped PSU and Nebraska:
1. USC 2. Texas 3. ASU 4. Nebraska 5. Penn State 6. Washington
Otherwise, it looks like PSU, losing at home(!), got the "fluke loss" exemption available only to a Rose-coached team...
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Post by Cruz'n on Oct 5, 2015 14:28:44 GMT -5
How Stanford is still in the top 10 makes no sense to me.... What would your top ten look like? Last week Stanford beat a top 15 on the road, then lost in 4 to a top 10 (now a top 5) on the road.
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 5, 2015 14:30:00 GMT -5
I think this would make a damn near perfect regional draw
1 USC 16 Wisconsin 8 Hawaii 9 Ohio State
5 ASU 12 UCLA 13 Illinois 4 Nebraska
3 Penn State 14 Arizona 11 Minnesota 6 Washington
7 Stanford 10 Kansas 15 BYU 2 Texas
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 5, 2015 14:31:15 GMT -5
Jola Graham - Savannah State Lyndsey Oates - Northern Colorado And I thought I was out-to-lunch missing the Neb-OSU result... It seems to me that Nebraska losing to OSU should have meant PSU being knocked down further, not elevated. Looks like their reaction was - "Ah, fluke!"
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Post by jarredk on Oct 5, 2015 14:31:53 GMT -5
Where is that PSU poster who started a crusade again that coach who has stanford 1 after getting beat by psu? I wonder if he or she will have as much enthusiasm for the coaches still voting PSU #1 after losing at home to Nebraska and barely beating Minny at home last week. Let's test that homerism. Please. While I don't think PSU should be ranked #1, it's extremely difficult to compare USC, Texas and PSU at this point and an argument for PSU (who only has one close loss and victories over 3 top 16 teams) is not totally absurd. Picking Stanford number 1 over an undefeated PSU team that just SWEPT them, is absurd.
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Post by whowasthat on Oct 5, 2015 14:35:21 GMT -5
How Stanford is still in the top 10 makes no sense to me.... me too!!!
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 5, 2015 14:38:49 GMT -5
Where is that PSU poster who started a crusade again that coach who has stanford 1 after getting beat by psu? I wonder if he or she will have as much enthusiasm for the coaches still voting PSU #1 after losing at home to Nebraska and barely beating Minny at home last week. Let's test that homerism. Please. While I don't think PSU should be ranked #1, it's extremely difficult to compare USC, Texas and PSU at this point and an argument for PSU (who only has one close loss and victories over 3 top 16 teams) is not totally absurd. Picking Stanford number 1 over an undefeated PSU team that just SWEPT them, is absurd. To each their own, but I think continuing to pick a team that was just beat at home, two of the sets not even be close, #1, over an undefeated team who just beat a top 5 team, and also has wins against #7, #12, #16, and #20, 3 of them on the road (whereas PSU is all at home), is pretty absurd too. I'm not saying it's the SAME as the stanford vote, but I surely think both are unjustified.
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Post by redbeard2008 on Oct 5, 2015 14:38:54 GMT -5
How Stanford is still in the top 10 makes no sense to me.... me too!!! They're waiting for Burgess to get better...
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Post by frustratedsetter on Oct 5, 2015 14:40:46 GMT -5
Stanford only 32 points ahead of Hawai'i, but Stanford has "easy" games at home against Oregon and Oregon State. While Hawai'i has to play unranked but dangerous LBSU.
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Post by texastwostep on Oct 5, 2015 14:41:23 GMT -5
Interesting!!!!. Two teams that have quietly climbed in the polls; Hawaii and Kansas (WAY TO GO!!!) Hawaii was a preseason, #18 and now ranked #8. Kansas did not appear in the Top 25 until week #2 when they were ranked #22 and now in the top 10 as the 10th ranked team. Has anyone seen Kansas play? What's the 411 on the Jayhawks? Are they for real? Any others??
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Post by whowasthat on Oct 5, 2015 14:44:20 GMT -5
How Stanford is still in the top 10 makes no sense to me.... What would your top ten look like? Last week Stanford beat a top 15 on the road, then lost in 4 to a top 10 (now a top 5) on the road. All the top schools who had a loss last weekend either stayed at their previous rank or moved down a bit, except Stanford, who actually moved up a notch. Stanford will be ranked somewhere in top 10 at the end of the season, but should not have been this week.
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Post by ay2013 on Oct 5, 2015 14:45:05 GMT -5
Interesting!!!!. Two teams that have quietly climbed in the polls; Hawaii and Kansas (WAY TO GO!!!) Hawaii was a preseason, #18 and now ranked #8. Kansas did not appear in the Top 25 until week #2 when they were ranked #22 and now in the top 10 as the 10th ranked team. Has anyone seen Kansas play? What's the 411 on the Jayhawks? Are they for real? They are undefeated so far, but have yet to play a name brand team.
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Post by psuer1989 on Oct 5, 2015 14:45:44 GMT -5
I saw on the NCAA poll Florida was ranked fifth...significantly ahead of the Arizona teams and many others that I would put ahead of them. Is RPI strictly strength of schedule? It seems a strong schedule where you lose three in a row should not keep you elevated. I am seriously curios in how it is formulated- not trolling! Thanks for any insight... www.ncaa.com/rankings/volleyball-women/d1/ncaa-womens-volleyball-rpi
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