Ranked in all three polls!
- Thread starter Rio4CY
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Voter summary for Iowa State at Poll Tracker
Highest rank: 14 (2 voters)
Lowest rank: NR (18 voters)
Number of top 20 votes: 20
Last week's highest rank: 18
Last week top 20: 3
Highest rank: 14 (2 voters)
Lowest rank: NR (18 voters)
Number of top 20 votes: 20
Last week's highest rank: 18
Last week top 20: 3
He's not wrong about that first part.
WTF is this?
He screwed up - he counted ISU as a home game (and multiplied by .2) instead of as a road game (and should have multiplied by .25). As a result, he shorted us 5 marbles. We should be at 321.
Read his Twitter. It's something along the lines of each team is assigned a number of marbles at the beginning of the year, and depending what happens each week the winning team takes a certain percentage of the losing team's marbles. If you win at home, you take 20% of the losing team's marbles; win on the road, you take 25% of their marbles.
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LincolnWay187
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I was watching Iowas game the other day and they called them the Cyclones during the telecast.
Because it's a poll that's voted on by sportswriters. I think we've been exposed to them enough to know.
Getting into the CFP top 25 must've had notable influence on voters. Otherwise, would a win at Kansas have been enough to jump to AP & Coaches top 25?
Well, the coaches poll is notoriously bad because it’s usually some intern or low level coach on the staff filling it in. The AP poll is bad because it’s inherently biased toward popular and east coast teams.
My guess is they looked at the CFB polls, ones that at least somewhat have to be based on merit, and they adjusted accordingly.
People in Oregon Sometimes get their beavers and ducks mixed up.....
People in Minnesota sometimes get their grey ducks and gooses mixed up.
It's freaking stupid, but it's good for us when we beat them in two weeks!
