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I will take the unusual step of defending Wilner on dropping Texas from 2 to unranked.  A couple weeks ago, I argued that he shouldn't have ranked Texas so high, because although it is possible that UND was an elite team and Texas was better, an equally likely explanation was that UND was overrated, and Texas was merely good.  But given that he did decide to rank Texas #2 on the basis of its win over Notre Dame, the fact that Notre Dame lost again means that he has to revisit the logic that put Texas at #2.  Couple that with Texas' loss to Cal, and, well, it is reasonable to drop them altogether.

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[BostonCard]

I will take the unusual step of defending Wilner on dropping Texas from 2 to unranked.  A couple weeks ago, I argued that he shouldn't have ranked Texas so high, because although it is possible that UND was an elite team and Texas was better, an equally likely explanation was that UND was overrated, and Texas was merely good.  But given that he did decide to rank Texas #2 on the basis of its win over Notre Dame, the fact that Notre Dame lost again means that he has to revisit the logic that put Texas at #2.  Couple that with Texas' loss to Cal, and, well, it is reasonable to drop them altogether.

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