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Post by traveler on Aug 30, 2021 14:16:09 GMT -5
I may not always get here to plop them down. If you find it first, feel free to post!
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Post by traveler on Aug 30, 2021 14:16:25 GMT -5
AUGUST 30 Edition
PL Univ (Votes for 1st) Pts Record Last Wk Pl
1 Texas (42) 1576 2-0 1
2 Wisconsin (15) 1542 2-0 2 B1G
3 Kentucky (7) 1460 3-0 3
4 Nebraska 1382 2-0 5 B1G
5 Florida 1338 3-0 6
6 Ohio State 1213 2-0 11 B1G Up 5
7 Pittsburgh 1191 3-0 9
8 Purdue 1127 2-0 8 B1G
9 Baylor 1112 1-1 10
10 Minnesota 1008 1-1 7 B1G Down 3
11 Washington 977 1-1 4
12 Louisville 827 2-0 13
T-13 BYU 798 3-0 15
T-13 Oregon 798 3-0 14
15 Western Kentucky 673 3-0 16
16 Georgia Tech 615 3-0 24 Up 8 -- did you thank us?
17 Penn State 568 2-1 12 B1G Down 5
18 UCLA 516 1-0 17
19 Utah 447 2-0 19
20 Stanford 323 2-0 21
21 Pepperdine 302 3-0 22
22 San Diego 237 1-1 20
23 Michigan 166 2-0 NR B1G
24 South Carolina 149 2-1 NR
T-25 Marquette 104 3-0 NR
T-25 Washington State 104 0-2 18
>1 ballot mention: Creighton 89; Notre Dame 48; Rice 48; Tennessee 20; Hawai'i 10; Denver 7; UNLV 5; Illinois 4; Loyola Marymount 2.
6 teams mentioned on only one ballot for a total of 33 combined points.
Dropped Out: Rice 23; Notre Dame 25
If I read the ballots correctly, Steve Greene, Josef Forman, Jill Kramer, and Jeremiah Larsen did not give PSU any votes at all. While each voted up GT into the mid-teens which seems odd if all they did so far was beat 2 currently unranked teams.
I'm not familiar with any of those voters; last time...maybe 3 years ago...when one coach omitted PSU each ballot throughout the season (may need to fact check), it sort of started a war here. lol. Not my intention here. No. Not at all.
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Post by jojonito on Aug 30, 2021 15:31:54 GMT -5
As you say really odd. Really inconsistent. Can't have it both ways, GT is good for beating PSU, but PSU isn't ranked. Oh well, as the saying goes, consistency is the bugaboo of little minds. How silly of us to expect that.  As I said earlier, I wouldn't mind meeting GT in the NCAA's. I think that PSU has a much higher upside than GT. |
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Post by ethankasales on Aug 30, 2021 16:08:07 GMT -5
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Post by nyline on Aug 30, 2021 17:10:14 GMT -5
Jill Kramer is the head coach of TCU -- formerly Katie Clark's TCU; Steve Greene is Texas A&M's head coach. Josef Foreman is a coach with Mississippi State. Jeremiah Larsen is the head coach of Weber State.
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Post by pennstate1973 on Aug 30, 2021 19:36:29 GMT -5
They put too much emphasis on the first match of the season. Things will even out as the season moves on.
Thanks for pointing out the coaches that didn't give PSU votes. That's one thing that bothers me. I'm fine with the poll results as long as I believe all the coaches are trying to be honest and not game the poll.
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Post by jojonito on Sept 1, 2021 7:48:37 GMT -5
I think we're all confused about the poll. We expect it to make sense. Ain't gonna happen. I just noticed that Ohio St, ranked #11, beat Washington, ranked # 4. So the ranking of the two switched places. Ohio St is now #4 and Washington is #11. Which makes no sense at all. If Washington is only ranked 11 than why should Ohio St move up to 4. I think it's because for a micro second, Washington stays at #4 justifying Ohio St being ranked at #4, and THEN moves down to #11. |
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Post by nyline on Sept 1, 2021 10:07:07 GMT -5
I think we're all confused about the poll. We expect it to make sense. Ain't gonna happen. I just noticed that Ohio St, ranked #11, beat Washington, ranked # 4. So the ranking of the two switched places. Ohio St is now #4 and Washington is #11. Which makes no sense at all. If Washington is only ranked 11 than why should Ohio St move up to 4. I think it's because for a micro second, Washington stays at #4 justifying Ohio St being ranked at #4, and THEN moves down to #11. Yep, there's alot of bending of the space-time continuum with AVCA polling. Where's my flux capacitor when I need it? |
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Post by treblejig on Sept 1, 2021 10:44:42 GMT -5
Or your transmorgrifier.
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Post by stillkicking on Sept 1, 2021 11:54:59 GMT -5
Or common sense which left the building a long time ago.
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 6, 2021 14:24:25 GMT -5
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Post by elliotberton on Sept 6, 2021 14:40:36 GMT -5
Well that's pretty funny. Sweep 3 credible opponents and go backwards.
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Post by ethankasales on Sept 6, 2021 15:03:14 GMT -5
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Post by jojonito on Sept 6, 2021 17:53:25 GMT -5
This year's poll probably impossible to be very accurate. When you factor in:
1) Coming off a covid year where hard to tell if a team is bad or just sick.
2) Hard to tell how good a team is because of all the transfers back and forth.
3) The inertia of the poll. Once you get in a certain area, it takes an act of God to change your position much.
I personally think that Nebraska, Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Baylor, Western Kentucky, to name a few, are all over ranked. Yeah well. Like others have said, it will come out in the wash.
I was watching PSU 2010 version semi-final. They were seeded 5th that year. Didn't seem to matter that much.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2021 15:09:18 GMT -5
Well that's pretty funny. Sweep 3 credible opponents and go backwards. As long as PSU keeps sweeping, I wouldn't mind if they drop out of the top 25. |
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As I said earlier, I wouldn't mind meeting GT in the NCAA's. I think that PSU has a much higher upside than GT.
