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Originally Posted by Solecismic
I'm interested in where the love for Northern Illinois and Fresno State, two teams playing bottom five schedules in the FBS, comes from.
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Goes back, quite possibly, to what it is the polls are trying to rank (which is a topic that has been discussed here in the past IIRC)
For my own submissions it's combination of how good I believe the teams are and how good a season they've had to date. An imprecise combination of those at that.
I looked back at my rankings for this week, about the only concern I've got about where I put FS and NIU is that I actually have a feeling that NIU might be more capable of pulling off an upset of a better team than FS has. But I can't quite get myself to get them flipped (likely because I haven't seen much of Fresno St and am relying on their record more).
I haven't seen your list for the week yet but IIRC it has Georgia Tech in the top 25 somewhere. I'm supremely confident that either of those teams would pound Tech, a team that hasn't beaten anyone better than UNC all year & was thoroughly dealt with by both BYU and Miami. ANY team worth more than half a damn would flatten the Jackets tbh.
edit to add: As I commented recently (on one of my weekly podcasts IIRC) and have noted for the past several years, at some point there not much difference at all between all the also-rans. The number of legitimately darned good teams is well smaller than 25.