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I have mixed feeling on whether we are a top 25 team. I think we’re at least close. We’ve played games close we shouldn’t have, all teams do through a season but we routinely do. We’ve lost 2 games, that one at least is a bad loss. Again, lots of teams have bad losses in a season. But combining all of the above I’m not sure that screams top 25.

However on the flip side we have one of the best QB’s, WR’s group and passing offense in CFB. What this offense has done it’s first year is incredible, especially given our history. You can have one of the best QB’s in CFB and not be in the top 25 BUT not when a team has 8 wins with one game left of regular season.

So ultimately I think we are a top 25 team. Had we been ranked at the start of the season in the top 25 we’d be in the top 25 this week. Just shows how important preseason rankings are.
 
qdawgg said:
I have mixed feeling on whether we are a top 25 team. I think we’re at least close. We’ve played games close we shouldn’t have, all teams do through a season but we routinely do. We’ve lost 2 games, that one at least is a bad loss. Again, lots of teams have bad losses in a season. But combining all of the above I’m not sure that screams top 25.

However on the flip side we have one of the best QB’s, WR’s group and passing offense in CFB. What this offense has done it’s first year is incredible, especially given our history. You can have one of the best QB’s in CFB and not be in the top 25 BUT not when a team has 8 wins with one game left of regular season.

So ultimately I think we are a top 25 team. Had we been ranked at the start of the season in the top 25 we’d be in the top 25 this week. Just shows how important preseason rankings are.
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I agree and wish they wouldn’t even come out with rankings until at least a couple weeks into the season.
 
qdawgg said:
I have mixed feeling on whether we are a top 25 team. I think we’re at least close. We’ve played games close we shouldn’t have, all teams do through a season but we routinely do. We’ve lost 2 games, that one at least is a bad loss. Again, lots of teams have bad losses in a season. But combining all of the above I’m not sure that screams top 25.

However on the flip side we have one of the best QB’s, WR’s group and passing offense in CFB. What this offense has done it’s first year is incredible, especially given our history. You can have one of the best QB’s in CFB and not be in the top 25 BUT not when a team has 8 wins with one game left of regular season.

So ultimately I think we are a top 25 team. Had we been ranked at the start of the season in the top 25 we’d be in the top 25 this week. Just shows how important preseason rankings are.
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We will still have one of the greatest offensive team lineups for next year even with a new QB, so we have the opportunity and have some depth for next year. They best part is the attitude of the team is great this year. Uconn a lot showed great improvement... Wow we can tackle now... We can defensive rush etc.. And, we can do special teams... Albeit missed some field goals...
Yeah plays get off but when they do we now at least got some 'Umpfh'; in ending them quickly. I think the team burnt out a bit in the 2nd half on both fronts a bit, but kept it up for the win. For Miami I want tosee the explosive first half that we had missed until UCONN and that explosive second half we missed at UCONN but normally have where we come back from a deficit... I think we got a little lax and it shows from the last few games where we got wins, but ended up being close.
 
qdawgg said:
I have mixed feeling on whether we are a top 25 team. I think we’re at least close. We’ve played games close we shouldn’t have, all teams do through a season but we routinely do. We’ve lost 2 games, that one at least is a bad loss. Again, lots of teams have bad losses in a season. But combining all of the above I’m not sure that screams top 25.

However on the flip side we have one of the best QB’s, WR’s group and passing offense in CFB. What this offense has done it’s first year is incredible, especially given our history. You can have one of the best QB’s in CFB and not be in the top 25 BUT not when a team has 8 wins with one game left of regular season.

So ultimately I think we are a top 25 team. Had we been ranked at the start of the season in the top 25 we’d be in the top 25 this week. Just shows how important preseason rankings are.
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We’re a top 25 team because we can beat any of 10 or more teams that are ranked. It’s the eye test. Not to mention ranked teams like UNLV, Army and Tulane are not better than us. ISU, ASU, WSU, Illini…these are all teams at a minimum it’s a push. With our offense of course we are a top 25 team.
 
PhatOrange said:
We’re a top 25 team because we can beat an any of 10 teams that are ranked. It’s the eye test. Not to mention ranked teams like UNLV, Army and Tulane are not better than us. ISU, ASU, WSU, Illini…these are all teams at a minimum it’s a push. With our offense of course we are a top 25 team.
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I think that's if we play Army... It would be a great bowl game and prove a bunch of doubts.
 
PhatOrange said:
Me personally, I’d like to play an SEC team.
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I get it... be nice to be able to justify we should have been on the top 25, beating UNLV/GT ranked... The Stanford thing like others definitely hurt, but there are others on the SEC we definitely could win against, as well as the others on the list like Army where they are 'undefeated' and were supposed to play this year... I bet if we did and beat them it might have been a completely different schedule, but instead we played UNLV, won, and it was spectacular, but still didn't get ranked but they are a guaranteed thoughtful for playoffs and still ranked. It just shows how things are skewed etc.. so the SEC thing I agree on that matter even if to settle some ACC/SEC stuff even ACC internally thing about who gets ranked etc.
 
I'd like to beat an SEC team in a bowl game, regardless of how many of their players sit out.

Then next year let's beat an SEC team to start the season. That's what needs to happen if the conference is going to get respect. We need ACC teams to play and beat ranked SEC and B1G teams to start the year, so they get knocked down and we get moved up. Then when we beat each other up, everyone can talk about how strong the conference is.
 
28th. Being behind Memphis is annoying. Their best win is what? Florida State? South Florida? North Texas? We have 5 or 6 wins more impressive than anything they've done.
 
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