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[QUOTE="fieldystick, post: 5066376, member: 8152"]
Army is going to be consensus 12th right now, not 9th, but yeah.

Anyone who has Army as 9th is letting their personal opinion of how good that team is bleed into their evaluation of the data.
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This is not going to be a popular statement here, but I'm going to say it anyway:

It's clear that Patrick Stevens does not think Syracuse is the 3rd best team in the country. I read the poll threads, and I know this board's reaction to his consistently lower than consensus ranking of the team. I have not been nearly as harsh on my evaluation of Syracuse in my own personal rankings - which having nothing to do with my brackets and do not factor in at all - but I also do not think Syracuse is actually the 3rd best team in the country. Take that for what it's worth, which is absolutely nothing. But if Stevens and I are both ignoring "eye test" (correctly) in making our bracket with respect to Syracuse, the same must apply to Army.

Syracuse [B][I]deserves[/I][/B] either the 2 or 3 seed currently on the basis of their extremely high quality wins, irrespective what I think or anyone else thinks of the actual quality of the team and its play on the field. If any bracket has the top 3 as anything other than ND/JHU/SU or ND/SU/JHU currently, I really question their methodology of how they are arriving where they are and whether they are letting their own opinion of how good certain teams are bleed into that.
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