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Point/Counterpoint

Posted on Monday, July 17, 2006 at 06:57PM by Registered CommenterCFR in , | Comments3 Comments

There's a brief back-and-forth between BON's Peter Bean and myself about preseason rankings posted at Burnt Orange Nation.

Be sure and check it out.

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Everything that is good about the college football blogosphere. Nice job!
July 18, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterJohnny
Great discussion; 2 points:
(a) We must also consider how rankings serve to prepare us for the storyline of one particular game; how we react to a team's performance during and after a game is very much effected by the relative rankings pre-game. By projecting expected results into rankings pre-season, you may be dimishing the "ranking" storyline of a particular game because the story has already been built in. It is much easier to say x team will be 8-3 than it is to pinpoint the 3 actual games that x team will lose. For example, it is easy to say, with their schedule, Florida could lose 3 games, and one of those games could be to Tennessee early on, but pregame, Florida should be the higher ranked team. Let the games play out and then see where the chips fall. (b) Also, average/good teams with easy schedules shouldn't get additional "boost" of the anticipated "easy" schedule factor before the year begins; This would encourage easy scheduling, which is bad policy (see Auburn, 2004 and...).
July 18, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterLtrain
awesome site, I agree with 98% of what's on here. keep up the great work. www.gocollegiate.com
September 27, 2006 | Unregistered CommenterBig Dan

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