Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
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They won't get much higher unless Memphis loses. It's hard to move up when you're already high. I don't see them moving past Duke, Connecticut or Villanova. They might have a chance to pass Memphis. It's harder to move at the end of the season.
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The thing is, Texas is playing a decent opponent this week (No. 24 Colorado), and that will probably help Texas, at least this week. It would not surprise me if Texas fluctuates over the next few weeks.
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They haven?t given a bid to a (team that finished) 3-7 in three years.
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It worked out pretty well. We're going to get one of the most anticipated games in quite a while.
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They are going to need to get higher in the polls than ninth or 10th, however that happens. Either teams ahead of them need to lose, or the pollsters would need to help them out.
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The formula is out there. Anyone with a computer and too much time on their hands can do it.
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The good thing for Pitt is that everyone will be taking on another loss in the last week of the season except for the conference champions.
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The poll margin is enormous. Virginia Tech would have to be two spots ahead of Texas in the computers to get close. They need to hope those poll margins erode.
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If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.
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If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.
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Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech is not only behind Texas but Georgia as well when the first release comes out.
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What it means is that you can't simply trust conference records to be a method of evaluating teams in the same conference. Everybody in that league will get a chance to play some good teams at some point, but not all 8-8's are the same.
I'd be surprised. That's not typically what happens.
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The trouble with figuring out where New Mexico is going is that the women's selection committee's decisions are really tough to predict, and New Mexico has to fall in line behind BYU and Utah. Those teams have to get higher seeds and favorable draws close to home. New Mexico can't be in the same side of the bracket, so their destiny depends on how the selection committee views BYU and Utah.