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[QUOTE="Louie and Bouie, post: 789564, member: 793"]
I certainly agree that we were better than the 47th team in the nation at the end of last year.  One of the problems with computer rankings is they don't include a subjective analysis of how much a team has progressed throughout the season. 
And as alot of us tend to forget, we only ended up 8-5 including the bowl win and started  out 2-4 with losses to Rutgers and Minnesota and close wins against Pitt and StonyBrook.  Couple the start with the later loss to Cincy and a bunch of close wins (scoring margin matters in most computer polls) and that's where you get the final ranking (not perfect but a methodology which gives us some comparison to other teams and seasons).
Although we looked like world beaters in the PinStripe the computers look at each game individually most times.
 
I do think the overall arc of the program is consistent with the numbers though and that's what i found most interesting.  Does our recent past help us to know where Syracuse University is as a program today and what can we reasonbly expect the program to achieve in the future.  Reasonableness being the key.
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