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Entered into evidence as exhibit 7,544 as proof that human polls in college football are suckish, I present to you the 2009 Iowa Hawkeyes.
Iowa is 4-0 and ranked 17th in the latest Coaches poll just released today. Sounds reasonable enough- after all, this is the same Iowa team that squeaked by with a one point victory over I-AA Northern Iowa in game one. That’s pretty sketchy. We can’t have a team like that in the top ten. Notice the irony that I’m actually giving the coaches credit for knowing that Iowa snuck by a I-AA team in game one, when in reality if pressed, my guess is less than 20% would know that.
It turns out though that the I-AA Northern Iowa team is actually pretty decent so far with a 3-1 record. It also turns out that Iowa State and Arizona, both teams Iowa beat, are both 3-1. In fact- every team that Iowa has beaten so far is 3-1. I’m sure the coaches know that already though so I’m not really dropping any knowledge on them.
Let’s take a look at some of the other data points just for fun- I’m sure the coaches know something I don’t.
Sagarin for example. The Sagarin rankings are a BCS component and helpful in these circumstances. Actually, that doesn’t help at all because Iowa is 5th in the Sagarin rankings. We better throw that figure out all together because his computer model is obviously flawed.
Let’s take a deeper dive into the coaches poll, shall we?
There are three schools ahead of Iowa that are from “non-BCS-automatically-qualifying-schools”- Houston, TCU and Boise State. Those teams can play some pretty serious football so no worries there. Plus- we’ve kept them down for a couple of years so they deserve a little fluffing.
There are seven teams ranked ahead of Iowa that have a loss. Georgia lost to Oklahoma State and Oklahoma State lost to Houston and all those teams are ahead of Iowa so that makes sense. If you’re high maybe.
And at #13; who’s at #13 in the coaches poll? Why, it’s Penn State. That’s odd. The very same team that undefeated Iowa just beat in State College at night, in the middle of a driving rain storm, with a white out no less. The lion roar, and the old guy, and the creamery, and Paternoville. They beat all that. Couldn’t be. There must be a reason for all of that to be four spots ahead of Iowa.
Turns out what really happened is that Iowa wasn’t ranked last week, and the coaches (or the S.I.D.’s) can’t be wrong, so they can’t take a team from outside the top 25 one week to inside the top 10 the next. That just wouldn’t be right.
Just like ranking an undefeated team behind the one-loss team it just beat at their place and behind six other one-loss teams and behind three non-BCS-automatically-qualifying-schools. Oh, that just doesn’t seem right either. How ever will we solve this dilemma?
Oh, I know. Let’s have a playoff bitches. Settle it on the field. What a novel idea.
You’re welcome.
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