Comments on: BG Ranked Ahead Of WV? http://futonreport.net/index.php/article/509bg-ranked-ahead-of-wv.php We're Gonna Take This Sitting Down Thu, 17 May 2012 17:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: MP http://futonreport.net/index.php/article/509bg-ranked-ahead-of-wv.php/comment-page-1#comment-3102 MP Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:02:52 +0000 http://futonreport.net/index.php/article/509bg-ranked-ahead-of-wv.php#comment-3102 All of this would be well and good...well, yeah, 17th is actually absurdly high...but for the fact that, as one commenter has said on this site already, Pittsburgh probably shouldn't have been ranked. This is not to say that BG is a bad team...I can't say that. Nor is this to say that BG shouldn't be favored over Minnesota this Saturday (although Minnesota might have beaten a "better than you think" NIU team this past Saturday, and thus warrant consideration for a better Big 10 finish this year). No, I merely say that I feel, much as I felt last year when Appalachian State beat Michigan, that beating a ranked team doesn't entirely mean that you should now be ranked. Maybe the originally ranked team (Pitt here) really just wasn't that good to begin with. Maybe the unranked team just wanted it more. I mean, didn't Pitt beat West Virginia last year, and weren't most commentators completely unable to explain that? All of this would be well and good…well, yeah, 17th is actually absurdly high…but for the fact that, as one commenter has said on this site already, Pittsburgh probably shouldn’t have been ranked.

This is not to say that BG is a bad team…I can’t say that. Nor is this to say that BG shouldn’t be favored over Minnesota this Saturday (although Minnesota might have beaten a “better than you think” NIU team this past Saturday, and thus warrant consideration for a better Big 10 finish this year).

No, I merely say that I feel, much as I felt last year when Appalachian State beat Michigan, that beating a ranked team doesn’t entirely mean that you should now be ranked. Maybe the originally ranked team (Pitt here) really just wasn’t that good to begin with. Maybe the unranked team just wanted it more. I mean, didn’t Pitt beat West Virginia last year, and weren’t most commentators completely unable to explain that?

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