I just did some real FAST research. Emphasis on fast. First our scoring differential is 13.8 pts. I know that seems high, but heck yesterday we won by 12. Pitt spread ended up 6.
There are no SU 75 MSU 73's in there.
A couple contexts , how good they are is ambiguous, is we are 20th. There are a lot of good, not REAL good teams ahead of us. This should probably be 2 dimensional. OOC and IC. Will put the cupcake blowouts if any in perspective.
Second, I went back to the last undefeated team Indiana. 32-0. Outscored opponents by 517 pts, 16.2 pts per game, not that much different than us. Not sure how that fit in with the time, but I remember on our upward climb thru the ECAC we routinely beat the Lafayettes, Colgates, Niagaras, Fordhams by a lot before we "outgrew" them. A note they beat Wiscy by 54 in a game. Beat Kentucky by 20.
I think our season to date is a reasonable expectation of a top 3 ranked team. Remember how it was on the other end, how these kind of teams (MSU 2000) you'd get so close and they'd find a way to win. I also remember the UNLV's and PhiSlammaJamma's of the world, nuking everyone and falling flat at the very end.