Jerry Palm
Jerry Palm
data
The more data you have, the better it is.
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Albany is a good candidate for that game as well. Also, the committee knows about everyone's injuries and those are a consideration.
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You're already seeing signs that Virginia Tech is catching Texas.
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More than likely it's just for one week. They are not going to stay there long-term unless they get closer to USC in the human polls.
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What it means is that you can't simply trust conference records to be a method of evaluating teams in the same conference. Everybody in that league will get a chance to play some good teams at some point, but not all 8-8's are the same.
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This year, the conference is just better. They did what they had to do to earn national respect. They scheduled tough games and they won a lot of them. Even teams in the lower part of the conference, teams like Air Force, really improved their RPI.
I'd be surprised. That's not typically what happens.
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I would say their chances of making the NIT aren't good if they lose their first game.
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I'm kind of skeptical of that. They may not have the restriction, but it remains to be seen how many under-.500 teams start to show up in the tournament.
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I think New Mexico has performed far too well to fall completely out, but the loss bumped them from about a six seed down to the middle of the bracket at eight or nine, where you're lucky to win one game, much less two.
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If Virginia Tech is the only one-loss team, then they make the Sugar Bowl. Otherwise, they don't.
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If Virginia Tech ends up number one in all six computer polls, like Texas is now, and the Longhorns are number three in the computer polls, that would make up the current gap in the human polls. That's the best-case scenario for Virginia Tech. It's not like last year when Auburn was third in the human polls and third in the computer polls.
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The formula is out there. Anyone with a computer and too much time on their hands can do it.
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The good thing for Pitt is that everyone will be taking on another loss in the last week of the season except for the conference champions.