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And our favourite pollster has his picks out.
Lots for everyone to complain about there.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespor...-old-no-1/

I'm just shaking my head.  I thought the man adjusted his thinking based on actual results, but somehow he can't bring himself to adjust down the quality of Notre Dame, even though they lost to Texas who lost to Cal, and lost to Michigan State, whose other win was a less-than-stellar win over Furman.  Maybe the answer is simply that UND is just not all that good, and thus that Michigan State shouldn't have risen to #6 on the basis of a win over a 1-2 team, or at least no more than you would raise Stanford after it beat a different overhyped 1-2 team.

Notre Dame clearly isn’t an elite team at this point — the Texas loss at Cal is additional evidence — but MSU’s showing in South Bend stands as a better result than all but a handful of teams can claim at this point.

The Tide’s dominating Week One win over USC lost some of its shine with the Trojans’ listless showing at Stanford — that cannot be considered a quality win for the Tide at this point. (If USC improves, I’ll reassess.)

#DoubleStandard

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[BostonCard]

And our favourite pollster has his picks out.
Lots for everyone to complain about there.

http://blogs.mercurynews.com/collegespor...-old-no-1/

I'm just shaking my head.  I thought the man adjusted his thinking based on actual results, but somehow he can't bring himself to adjust down the quality of Notre Dame, even though they lost to Texas who lost to Cal, and lost to Michigan State, whose other win was a less-than-stellar win over Furman.  Maybe the answer is simply that UND is just not all that good, and thus that Michigan State shouldn't have risen to #6 on the basis of a win over a 1-2 team, or at least no more than you would raise Stanford after it beat a different overhyped 1-2 team.

Notre Dame clearly isn’t an elite team at this point — the Texas loss at Cal is additional evidence — but MSU’s showing in South Bend stands as a better result than all but a handful of teams can claim at this point.

The Tide’s dominating Week One win over USC lost some of its shine with the Trojans’ listless showing at Stanford — that cannot be considered a quality win for the Tide at this point. (If USC improves, I’ll reassess.)

#DoubleStandard

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