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The only reason to think they are a good team is speculation. 

You can't rank solely based off of results at this time, projections have to make up a big portion of any rankings, by humans or computers.

Well, you don't have to just use speculation and projection. One thing you can do is watch teams play and evaluate how well they do things and, well, how good they are.

It is a little tricky, because level of competition figures in. And certainly journalists seem to be generally trained not to have opinions of their own based upon observations of their own. But you can take a good stab at it if you watch enough football and spend the time to learn about how things are supposed to work. For example, there is a difference between completing a lot of passes because nobody is covered and competing passes even though receivers are covered because the ball is delivered right on the money. There is a way to figure out if an OL is letting in rushers because they are busy double teaming one guy while another roams free versus simply being over-powered one on one. But this takes doing a lot of homework.

U$C has a bit of both by the way. They have some fantastic athletes. Their lines both were strong at the start of the game. But, they made lots of bone-headed plays (look at all those illegal motion penalties) and they seemed to wear out pretty badly in the second half - either physically, emotionally, or both.

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The only reason to think they are a good team is speculation. 

You can't rank solely based off of results at this time, projections have to make up a big portion of any rankings, by humans or computers.

Well, you don't have to just use speculation and projection. One thing you can do is watch teams play and evaluate how well they do things and, well, how good they are.

It is a little tricky, because level of competition figures in. And certainly journalists seem to be generally trained not to have opinions of their own based upon observations of their own. But you can take a good stab at it if you watch enough football and spend the time to learn about how things are supposed to work. For example, there is a difference between completing a lot of passes because nobody is covered and competing passes even though receivers are covered because the ball is delivered right on the money. There is a way to figure out if an OL is letting in rushers because they are busy double teaming one guy while another roams free versus simply being over-powered one on one. But this takes doing a lot of homework.

U$C has a bit of both by the way. They have some fantastic athletes. Their lines both were strong at the start of the game. But, they made lots of bone-headed plays (look at all those illegal motion penalties) and they seemed to wear out pretty badly in the second half - either physically, emotionally, or both.