joewillie78 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:17 pm
Finster wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:11 pm
joewillie78 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:24 pm
My new top 20, 3/10/24:
1. Army
2. Notre Dame
3. Duke
4. Maryland
5. Virginia
6. Penn State
7. Denver
8. Syracuse
9. Yale
10. Harvard
11. Johns Hopkins
12. Penn
13. Princeton
14. Cornell
15. Georgetown
16. Richmond
17. Michigan
18. North Carolina
19. Colgate
20. Rutgers
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Joewillie78
You need a martini after these weekends. This poll work isn’t easy, other than Army.
Not gonna lie, I’d be really happy if Army found the Natty at the end of the season. I can’t imagine them losing until the tournament; I don’t see anyone they won’t certainly be favored over. The only return to some semblance of polling predictability is if they lose to Loyola or one of the other PL teams.
Great job yet again, JoeWillie!!
Thanks, actually. I'm a Gin and Tonic guy. In fact, I'm having one right now. When Cornell wins, I use Tangueray, when they lose, like yesterday, I drink Gordons.
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Joewillie78
Good choice on winning/losing drinks. As for the poll:
It's a mess. There's just no right answer. Army is a cool story and an excellent team, but if they remain undefeated and #1, their schedule will be laughed at in comparison to the ACC and B1G gauntlets. By that I mean if a name program like Duke, ND, MD, UVA, JHU ended up the season undefeated and their only top 20 games were Cuse and Rutgers, they would be ridiculed highly discounted here. Still, it's a great story and if Army won the national championship, that would be one of the best sports stories in this quarter-century.
The truth fairy tapped Denver on the shoulder. I think the home loss to Yale on top of the fluke, one in a million comeback at JHU, should reset them lower than 7, probably just below JHU which dominated them until they didn't.
Penn State and UVA should probably be ahead of 3-time OT winner Maryland. Duke should probably be behind each of those teams considering they got dominated at home by Penn.
ND is probably the true #1 but it doesn't matter right now. Fun stuff.