threeanout said:
At #40 after the mid week games.
I know it's computer generated but tu at #38 with an 11-8 record is a mystery to me. Their record is 4-8 combined in Quad 1, 2 and 3 games played. The next highest ranked team with 8 or more total losses is Baylor at #60. They have the same record in Quad 1, 2 and 3 games played....4-8. Don't get it.
You just have to zoom in a little bit more. You're talking about "Quad, 1, 2 and 3" but the quads make no difference at all to the computers. They're looking at the pure rankings. So where looking at the quads makes no distinction between beating #1 and #75 on the road, the NET itself of course does.
Texas has two big wins in their pocket that are buoying their NET that I'd guess nobody around them has, and that's beating NET #13 Vanderbilt and and especially beating NET #20 Alabama on the road. And they also blasted #34 Georgia.
Also crucial, three of their losses were to teams ranked in the top 20, and the loss to UCONN was only by 8 points. Their worst losses aren't that bad, they got beat in overtime by three points by Miss State and by one point to Arizona State, those aren't great results but they're not awful, those are both top 100 teams and AzSt was at a nuetral site.
You add all that up and you get bubble-ish team and that's exactly where Texas is at right at #41 this morning.
Compare that to say, us, our schedule hasn't been as good. We got absolutely nuked by #72 Oklahoma State. Our best win is at #28 Auburn. We lost at home by 12 to #39 UCF. The best opponent we've even played so far is #23 Tennessee.
And another thing that's crucial that I've talked about is that most predictive metrics weigh your more recent games more heavily. After all, that's the point, how good is this team right now. But the NET doesn't do that. It's not exactly a level playing field for the NCAA Tournament if the system is weighted towards recent games because it's going to heavily favor major conference teams even more than it already does. So for the hamsters inside the NET's wheels, losing by 24 to Oklahoma State on November 9 is the same as if we lost to Oklahoma State by 24 yesterday.
