Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
beat care collection nice terrible wins
They have a pretty nice collection of wins and no terrible losses. So if they take care of business, they could still be a No. 2 (seed), even if they don't beat Illinois.
falling further great hurt last losing strong stuck themselves three
You never want to be stuck in the middle, but I don't see them falling much further than that. They hurt themselves by losing two of their last three games, but their RPI is strong at 30 and they did a lot of great things this season.
cal catch catching faint hope southern tech virginia
It's a paper-thin margin. It's irrelevant, because Virginia Tech is not going to catch Southern Cal and they have a faint hope of catching Texas. Virginia Tech isn't going to catch Southern Cal before they (the Trojans) catch Texas.
words
It's a nonevent. If you have to write 1,000 words on this, I feel for you.
based four losing losses road strength
It's all pretty much based on strength of schedule. Another thing you have to look at is all four of Pitt's losses have been on the road. In the new RPI formula, losing on the road is useful.
came east major might opportunity six teams together top weaknesses year
There may not be any top 25 teams - but 26 through 40, six of them might be in that group. There's been an opportunity this year because of weaknesses in the major conferences, other than the Big East and Big Ten. It's just one of those things where all these (factors) came together at once.
bid given three
They haven?t given a bid to a (team that finished) 3-7 in three years.
mediocrity tough year
There's just a lot of mediocrity out there. It's going to be real tough year for the committee.
oklahoma usc
It would have been better for USC if Oklahoma had put up more of a fight.
feather loss team win
A win over Rutgers would have been a feather in their cap, but you can't have a loss to a team which you should beat.
help opponent played schedule strength texas weak
Texas played an opponent that is now 4-2. So that's going to help what has been a pretty weak strength of schedule so far.
clear holds maintain texas week winning
Texas is a clear No. 2 this week -- and the foreseeable future, too -- as long as they maintain their big holds in the polls. They got to keep winning with style.
dropping ends higher looking seed team tennessee
Tennessee is dropping like a rock. It's looking like whichever team ends up with the higher seed (UNC or Tennessee) will end up in Greensboro with Duke.
poll seen understand
I've seen they were in the poll and couldn't understand why. They haven't done anything special.