[personal] Re: [Husker] Polls??????????

[Scott R Lawson]

I'm still not sure why some folks think NU shouldn't have dropped after this loss...really the only times I can recall teams not dropping at least 3 or 4 spots after a loss are when you lose to a team in the top 2 or 3, or if you are called Notre Dame. Other than that, Nebraska easily could have dropped past 20th in my opinion.

Scott in NY  

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From: husker-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:husker-bounces at tssi.com]On Behalf
Of Skylar Dodds
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 12:24 PM
To: Husker List
Subject: Re: [personal] Re: [Husker] Polls??????????


Hello Husker Fans,

I would guess that the majority of voters do either 1 of 2 things when
placing their vote:

1) Read Boxscores.  It's been long discussed that many voters will
simply check the boxscores to figure out where to place the teams and
don't really find out what 'happened'.

2) Watch Sportscenter.  If any of you watched what sportscenter /
talking heads had to say about this game, it was portrayed as a
'dodged bullet' by UT and not as NU being on the same level as UT.
They talked about how great UT was for coming back in the cold and
snow rather than being beaten by NU only to get lucky.  It was very
much portrayed as NU was lucky to be there and normally we would lose
by 2 scores.  They've been talking all year about how Texas is still
in the MNC hunt and how they've gone 'under the radar'.  So they
wanted to paint a picture that Texas is a MNC team and easily the best
team in the Big XII.

Just my 2 cents.

-- 
Go Skers,
 Skylar                            mailto:Sklarbodds at cox.net

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bac>  
bac> -----Original Message-----
bac> From: marklandin at gmail.com
bac> To: rbeach at neb.rr.com
bac> Cc: husker at tssi.com
bac> Sent: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:08 AM
bac> Subject: Re: [Husker] Polls??????????


bac>  
bac> Don't forget that NU's relative ranking is not dependant just on how 
bac> NU fares but how the teams around them fare. Pollsters may actually 
bac> think NU is a better team than they did last week, but that other 
bac> teams around them have improved even more. 
bac>  
bac> Either way, polls suck. 
bac>  
bac> _______________________________________________ 
bac>  
bac>  
bac>       Yeah, those things can certainly enter in.   I could see a
bac> team moving but not four places.  I wouldn't think too many teams
bac> in the country could play Texas that close.  But, on the other
bac> hand it is not a shock either.  Polls have been doing that for
bac> years.  I remember one year NU was number one, Penn State was
bac> number two, and Michiggan three.  All three won and Michingan
bac> moved to number one followed by NU and then Penn State.  It is
bac> just the quirk of college football.  At least in the conference
bac> races style points aren't a qualification.
bac>  
bac>  
bac> Bob Beach  
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