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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 5248390, member: 874"]
You're splitting hairs. They're 25 and we're essentially somewhere 26-30. Like I said, we're part of a group that can make an argument. So are they. Don't just look at the wins though. Look at the losses too. We got blown out by Pittsburgh. They got blown out by Oregon. Who's gonna get dinged more there? And like it or not, losing to Penn St isn't going to hurt them as much as any of our losses. Penn St. may be overrated, but even if they weren't, they'd still be top 15 at the very lowest, they're a 1 loss team. Their third loss is to a meh team with a winning record. Ours is to a bad Stanford team. Our losses are worse.

Yes, preseason assumptions carry some weight. And they should. Teams that are consistently good will be viewed as good until they give a reason to not be. See Michigan. Teams that are consistenty irrelevant have to prove themselves. You do that by beating at least one team that's respected and then following up by not having forehead palm losses or you do it by racking up a bunch of wins without stubbing your toe. The Pitt blowout and Stanford loss put us in a place where we've had to make up a bunch of ground and we don't have a chance at a statment win until Miami.

Given all of that, we should feel good that we are lumped in with a team like Illinois. And if we don't stub our toe today, we have a chance at getting a number by our name. Let's take care of business and have our starters resting on the bench in the 4th quarter. That's what teams that want to get noticed do when they play teams like UConn.
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