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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4954702, member: 1969"]
Matt I fully agree with you on these 2 points.

Things are absolutely dynamic.  Even if the ACC is a bit down, teams around us are rapidly moving in any direction.   All we can do is keep winning, and some of those things we accomplished already could well look better by year end.  There are still quality wins out there.

And I also agree that whether Florida St is Q2 or Q3, if they end up 12-8 or something its not going to kill us.    The only thing that is valuable at Florida St being Q2 instead of Q3, is that optically its very important -- it could give us a clean resume with no "bad" losses based on metrics (assuming we beat Notre Dame and Louisville which we better otherwise we have no chance)  That is something most bubble teams tend not to have.

You are also correct in that we are #5 in NET, and that year we were #7.   Unfortunately unlike RPI which gave you a Conference RPI%, its hard to see how big the gap is behind you or ahead of you.  My guess is that the gap between our "score" and the top is less than before, which is why I am a bit surprised we are at the 3 teams in range.   Was expecting 4-6 at the beginning of conference play based on how we did OOC (not as bad as prior year)

To be honest I'm not even sure if its just an AVERAGE NET figure by conference, or if it something calculated by the NCAA.   Its not as transparent from a calculation perspective as RPI which was clean but simplistic.
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