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What’s our new ranking?

I think we will be 8th or 9th.
Agree. Most voters are going to want to put AL behind us and won’t want to drop them from #2 to out of the top 10 for losing to #14 at Mackey. I’m guessing Purdue at #7 or 8 with AL one spot behind.
 
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I’m going with 9:
1 kansas
2 uconn
3 gonzaga
4 auburn
5 Iowa state
6 houston
7 unc
8 tenn
9 purdue

Tennessee was pretty far ahead of us and 8 voters already had us in top 10, so those won’t move us up too much. I can see maybe 8 but won’t get past the UNC bias.
 
I'm excited about our SOS. Seems like this was perfectly timed with a warm up, then Yale, then Bama at home, then Marquette on the road. That's a nice progression that if we win along with a Marshall win should render some top 5 conversation next Sunday.
 
It’ll depend on who lost ahead of us right? It’s not common to go down in rank if you win out the week. Guessing we just move up a few slots, at least ahead of Arizona. Also, not sure we will move ahead of duke, but maybe? It would be a huge drop for Alabama to go below us for a road loss, so not sure we pass them either.
 
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Rick Bozich had Purdue 12 last week, 8 this week.

The UConn hack David Borges kept Purdue at 16 (ha has Bama at 4).
Note that Houston only dropped 4 spots after losing essentially at home. To a top 10 team of course but still. I just don't think it's a lock that Purdue is ahead of Alabama.
 
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Note that Houston only dropped 4 spots after losing essentially at home. To a top 10 team of course but still. I just don't think it's a lock that Purdue is ahead of Alabama.
Yeah I think had this NOT been a home game for us and we won, it'd be different. But our home court advantage is so huge that you have to think they will take that in to account. Which says a lot for the crowd (in a positive way).
 
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Yeah I think had this NOT been a home game for us and we won, it'd be different. But our home court advantage is so huge that you have to think they will take that in to account. Which says a lot for the crowd (in a positive way).
But if it were Cameron duke would be top 3. That’s why I’m thinking 9, still doubters.
 
It’ll depend on who lost ahead of us right? It’s not common to go down in rank if you win out the week. Guessing we just move up a few slots, at least ahead of Arizona. Also, not sure we will move ahead of duke, but maybe? It would be a huge drop for Alabama to go below us for a road loss, so not sure we pass them either.
I agree that some pollsters will look at it that way, but that seems like nonsense to me. If a team behind you beats the #2 team in the country, you have similar records and you haven't beaten a team of the caliber, you should slip. If the #2 team in the country loses on the road by nine to a team without a loss, there's no excuse for them not to fall behind them.
 
But if it were Cameron duke would be top 3. That’s why I’m thinking 9, still doubters.
9th is the lowest reasonable ranking. I don't think there would be a lot of room to complain about that unless Alabama is ranked higher.
 
Early season polls in both college football and college basketball are skewed toward traditional powers…and will shake out as more games are played. Nevertheless…the win against Bama on Friday will look very good on the resume come March …as Painter said in a post game interview.
 
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Early season polls in both college football and college basketball is skewed toward traditional powers…and will shake out as more games are played. Nevertheless…the win against Bama on Friday will look very good on the resume come March …as Painter said in a post game interview.
YES!!! March will look great, as long as we keep on keepin' on
 
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I agree that some pollsters will look at it that way, but that seems like nonsense to me. If a team behind you beats the #2 team in the country, you have similar records and you haven't beaten a team of the caliber, you should slip. If the #2 team in the country loses on the road by nine to a team without a loss, there's no excuse for them not to fall behind them.
I do kind of agree, just thinking back a few years when we were beneficiaries of this. We were ranked number 1 and were consistently just scraping by teams without looking very good. But we didn't lose, so we kept poll position until we did lose.
 
Shane Mettlen from Virginia clearly doesn't have Peacock. Moved Purdue from 17 to 16. Alabama stayed at 2.
Dave borges had us 16 as well with Alabama 4 and then next worse was 12. If those two had us at 6 or even 7 we would have beat out Iowa state.
 
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