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So Texas and Illinois are now good wins AGAIN?

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Tide, Dawgs into AP top 5; Vandy soars to No. 10

The SEC again has half of the top 10 in the AP Top 25 college football poll as Alabama and Georgia rose to No. 4 and No. 5, respectively, and Vandy soared to No. 10.
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The Buckeyes received 60 first-place votes, 10 more than a week ago. No. 2 Indiana pulled awayfrom Michigan State, improved its program-record ranking by one spot and received the other six first-place votes.

Ohio State's 10 straight appearances in the top five is the longest active streak.
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LSU hasn't beaten a single P4 team team with a .500 or better record, has 2 losses and is still #19/20

The SEC effect at its finest.

For comparison sakes Illinois 2 losses as well but are to #1 and #2, they have 2 better wins than LSUs best win (USC and Duke) yet are ranked below LSU
 
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Mike80 said:
Illustration on why opinion polls are entirely meaningless....

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ESPN doesn't use the human polls to pimp the SEC SOS, they use their own system which is based on the garbage FPI.

The lowest rated SEC team currently is Miss State at #47. 2-5 Arkansas is #36. Basically with how their model starts in the preseason it's hard for any SEC team to fall too low. Example: Miss State went 2-10 last year and was #66 in the final FPI. Meanwhile 5-7 Sparty was #82. Another equal 2-10 mess on Florida State was 88th. I know people love to say "lol at arguing about a team being #66" but that without question helps the overall pumping up of the SEC SOS.
 
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If Illinois wins @ Washington they have a very very good chance at winning out (Rutgers, Maryland, @ Wisconsin, Northwestern)

Which creates a funny situation

Now if a SEC team went 10-2 with the 2 losses being to top teams they without question would be in the playoffs. ESPN in this case though would go on a full crying campaign to try to keep Illinois out.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
If Illinois wins @ Washington they have a very very good chance at winning out (Rutgers, Maryland, @ Wisconsin, Northwestern)

Which creates a funny situation

Now if a SEC team went 10-2 with the 2 losses being to top teams they without question would be in the playoffs. ESPN in this case though would go on a full crying campaign to try to keep Illinois out.
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“You can’t lost by 50-some points to anybody and expect to be in the playoff”.

Much more likely than “You can’t lose to a team that’s currently 0-4 in the ACC and be in the playoff”.
 
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