AP Top 25 Poll
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AP voters love a cinderella. We're not losing to Kansas.
I don't feel like we're outgunned in any game right now. Not saying I think we'll be favored, but we should be in a position to win late in every game.
It’s going to come down to if we can win one- score games more often than not. We were 2-5 in 2021, and one of the wins was UNI. We were 4-2 in 2020.
kansas should be ranked. hard pressed to find 24 teams with a better resume than them
Uh, whats so great about their resume'?
They beat a not very good FCS team. A not very good P5 team. A probably middle of the road G5 team at best it appears.
I think we have that. Most do, that are 3-0. None of KUs opponents have won more than 1 game this year so far.
The have to blow their wad over a Kansas school, KState stepped on their d*ck so now it’s KUs turn. How long do we honestly think KU will go before they hit a multiple game losing streak?
2 road victories against OK teams. everyone else played no one
check your bias. kansas playing great
Good programs that start 3-0 tend to be ranked. We’re a good program.
We should at least be getting votes.
It’s not either/or. No one has suggested we don’t keep winning
It’s undoubtedly a sign that not much had changed in perception of ISU football
I'll give KU a temporary pass for getting Novelty Votes. When it gets to positions 20 to 25 at this point in the season, I can understand some pollsters doing a wing-it selection.
To be fair to Kansas (and probably more so, Iowa State), Michigan hasn't beaten anyone good, either, just happens to have started way, way higher in the pecking-order rank. Granted, the wins have been massive blowouts, so I guess it's benefit-of-doubt.
As someone else posted, it’s not about us
Lots of attention grabbing wins yesterday—and ours wasn’t one of them.
Because the Big 12 is incredibly deep this year, I'm guessing the champion will end up with at least 2 losses. That's gonna really hurt them for playoff chances.
Plus, ISU's first three games have been on ESPN+, B1G Network and ESPN+, which basically means nobody who wasn't directly interested in the games (especially the two ESPN+ games) saw them or are even aware about ISU being 3-0 this season with two solid (in performance) home wins and a gutsy come from behind P5 road win.
This is just plain silly reasoning. Every team showed the world the previous year what they could do, and at the start of the year everyone is trying to guesstimate what they carried over.
That’s the whole point. There is just more to build on as the season progresses.
Also, it’s all just for entertainment’s sake at this point anyway, so I see no reason to chafe about it.
AP poll is a pure guess from 4-25 right now. It's a 3 team race this year. No one else is even in the same stratosphere as GA, Bama, and tOSU.
The only poll that matters is the playoff poll, and there’s a reason it doesn’t come out until week 8.
