Okay so explain this to me - in the fan lax poll you sponsor,Matnum PI wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 9:26 pmWatched a HS game this afternoon and a team went up big, 10-3 or so. Then the losing team slowly crept back into the game (it was 13-10 at one point) until... The team that was winning all along won 14-10. Now, people will walk away from this game and say, Wow! Losing Team did pretty well only losing 14-10 (and it was 13-10 at one point)! and... I dunno. To me, it looked like Winning Team was winning handily so they took their foot off the gas. Looked to me like if Losing Team was ever to pose a real threat, Winning Team would've turned on the gas and built another 7 goal lead. On the whole, people/teams play to win, not to win by as many goals as possible. From where I'm sitting...Gobigred wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 2:06 pmWhat HGK doesn't seem to understand is that the 50th to 60th best teams in the country could lose to those same three schools. But they wouldn't be ranked very high because they don't have the cachet Notre Dame has. As Fanlax Computer says above, you have to then look at whom a team has beaten to slot them in the ranking. Losing to the top three teams in the country proves nothing. Nearly every team in Division I could accomplish that.FanLax Computer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 13, 2022 12:56 pm Notre Dame was ranked so low early in the season because they hadn't beaten anyone. A "good loss" is still a loss. Wins show what teams a team is better than. Not "good losses".
ND is #12 as an aggregation of all voters. ND has ONE top 20 win and it’s to a team ranked behind them in the poll! So either the tough losses matter or every pollster should explain their rationale for how a team with one top 20
Win to a team we all ranked lower than them can be 12th. Matnum feel free to start with your rationale of how that is possible. if tough losses to top teams don’t matter I am very interested in what the responses are as
to how they can possibly be 12th.