ND jumps us with strong showing against BYE

Am I reading this right? We blow out a 4-1 team, Notre Dame is off, and they jump us? Its worse than thought.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankings?pollId=1&seasonYear=2005&weekNumber=7

 

i dont get it either, but who cares?

 

Some of the voters thought Bye was a Top 25 opponent :rofl:

The love affair with the Irish is alive and well.

 

Until there are fewer than 2 undefeated teams left, I dont, honestly.

 

Surely you are not suprised? We are talking Notre Dame the team that has it's own TV contract and has been a media darling(see USC) for years.

 

To be honest, I half expected it. I dont pretend to understand it though.

 

let's think about this for a second.......

LSU has not played a solid game all year except against Miss St. Notre Dame has played very well and lost to a ranked team in OT. Besides that loss, Notre Dame has looked fairly impressive. I honestly think Notre Dame will take USC this weekend, then the media will ride the Texas bandwagon until the Big 12 championship game or Texas Tech game when they choke.

I am not surprised nor upset witht he rankings. LSU showed poorly last night against an inferior team. We will get another chance to impress voters the next 2 weeks, so Les has to make the most of the opportunity.

 

So who should feel insulted: Us or Vandy?

 

Only two human polls count, and the AP isn't one of them.

 

i dont think the problem is so much that sportswriters might think that ND is better than LSU but the way they passed us in the poll. we kill a decent team on the road and ND does nothing. traditionally, that wont happen.

i dont think lsu showed poorly. ended up killing vandy on the road. this vandy team is likely better than normal. lsu dominated vandy and with only a normal # of mistakes, beats them 60-0. mistakes are part of the game, but lsu will make nowhere near that many on average.