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[QUOTE="HRE Otto IV, post: 4598571, member: 5685"]
To put the NET and Q1/2 into further perspective. North Texas is 42nd in the NET. So beating them home and away like FAU did gives you a Q1 win and a Q2 win. Now how did North Texas get to their 42nd ranking?

OOC they played two D2 teams.

They lost OOC to the Colonial's 3rd placed team UNC Wilmington on a Neutral court.

Their best W OOC was against the MWC's 5th placed team San Jose State on a Neutral court.

Against CUSA's top team they went 0-2. Against the 3rd place team they went 2-0. They lost on the road to a team that went 9-11 in conference. They lost at home to a team that went 8-12 in conference.

So how in the heck does that get you a Top 50 rankings? Do they even have a single quality W?

Meanwhile a team like VA Tech is 77th. So if you beat them home and away you only get one Q2 win and one Q3 W. How the heck is that right? No one rather play VA Tech than North Texas.

Looking further behind the curtain of VA Tech...

OOC they lost on the road to the Colonial's 1st placed team. They beat the SWAC's 1st place team. They beat the 2nd placed teams from the A10 and the Patriot. They beat Penn State and Oklahoma State both on Neutral courts.

VA Tech's OOC schedule was 1000x harder than North Texas's schedule. So what the NET is saying is going 16-4 in CUSA is waaaay harder than going 8-12 in the ACC. Which is laughable.

It isn't right that teams like Clemson, Pitt, NC State get less credit for beating VA Tech than FAU gets for beating North Texas in the Q1/2 metrics.

Edit

So if you want to count UAB, North Texas has TWO quality Ws and 2 bad Ls. VA Tech has 10 quality Ws and ONE bad L. That gets you a 35 rankings difference in North Texas's favor.
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