One loss Clemson

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-03T13:59:00-0400

Clemson and UK battled in a high scoring bowl game last year. Clemson squeaked out a victory. A team that looked much the same was beaten by #1 UGA this past week 34-3. Yet, Clemson remains in the Top 25 at 0-1 after losing by 31.

In 2022, #1 UGA beat unranked UK 16-6. Was UK a top 25 team because it lost to UGA by only ten?

If you get pummeled by another ranked team in your first game, you should not be ranked in Week 2.

Clemson is #22. If they had only lost by 20, would they be #17?

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catsfanbgky · 2024-09-03T14:10:35-0400

You are thinking way too much into this. FSU lost week 1 and stayed in the top 25, but after 0-2 they are gone. Clemson started the year ranked, lost to the #1 team in college football, no need to drop them 15 or so spots for losing to #1. SEVERAL teams lost and stayed ranked. Now if they would have lost to someone unranked and that bad, yes they would have been dropped from the top 25. LSU dropped more spots than Clemson did, and they didn't lose to #1.

UKWildcats1987 · 2024-09-03T14:15:42-0400

They lost to the number 1 team. We will know by early October if Clemson is worthy of being ranked, albeit in the meaningless polls.

Playoff rankings are all that matters now anyways and they start way later.

JrandoUK · 2024-09-03T14:21:08-0400

UKWildcats1987 said:
They lost to the number 1 team. We will know by early October if Clemson is worthy of being ranked, albeit in the meaningless polls.

Playoff rankings are all that matters now anyways and they start way later.

With the sorry ass ACC Clemson could still finish with only 2-3 losses..

CrimsonCats · 2024-09-03T14:28:12-0400

They may not actually be that good for all we know at this point, but there’s probably only 2-3 teams in the country who can legitimately compete with Georgia this year. If you believed in Clemson enough to give them a preseason ranking, then there’s no need to completely write them off because of a lopsided game against that particular opponent.

bbncal02 · 2024-09-03T14:31:33-0400

What truly irks me is IofL being rocketed up to 22 in the polls for beating APSU. Austin Peay barely has a semblance of a football program. We at least beat a half-way competent opponent.

The ACC bias is real but won’t last long.

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-03T15:04:41-0400

UKWildcats1987 said:
They lost to the number 1 team. We will know by early October if Clemson is worthy of being ranked

Agreed. And, that would also be the case if undefeated teams were currently placed in the Top 25 and Clemson dropped this week.

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-03T15:06:18-0400

CrimsonCats said:
They may not actually be that good for all we know at this point, but there’s probably only 2-3 teams in the country who can legitimately compete with Georgia this year. If you believed in Clemson enough to give them a preseason ranking, then there’s no need to completely write them off because of a lopsided game against that particular opponent.

Because we don’t know and they lost by 31 points, it makes sense to drop them, rather than assume a preseason poll should have any moment now that games have been played.

UKWildcats1987 · 2024-09-03T15:15:29-0400

This will never happen due to mindless banter fodder and due to TV networks need to hype up weekly games but I wish there were no polls until the first playoff rankings and only the playoff poll.

Blue-ish · 2024-09-03T15:25:49-0400

catsfanbgky said:
You are thinking way too much into this. FSU lost week 1 and stayed in the top 25, but after 0-2 they are gone. Clemson started the year ranked, lost to the #1 team in college football, no need to drop them 15 or so spots for losing to #1. SEVERAL teams lost and stayed ranked. Now if they would have lost to someone unranked and that bad, yes they would have been dropped from the top 25. LSU dropped more spots than Clemson did, and they didn't lose to #1.

FSU didn't drop after their first loss because there was no poll. There was the preseason poll and today's poll. FSU went from #10 with 971 poinst to out of ranking with 10 points.

LSU dropped 5 spots to #18. Clemson dropped 11 spots #25.

2024 AP Poll College Football Rankings, Preseason - ESPN

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HerrosHeroes · 2024-09-03T15:29:46-0400

2 lousy votes for UK even though we would have won 50-0 over Southern Miss if not for the weather.
SMH

catsfanbgky · 2024-09-03T16:14:24-0400

Vandy had more points than UK. Think about that for a second. AP Poll sucks.

UKWildcats1987 · 2024-09-03T16:47:39-0400

catsfanbgky said:
Vandy had more points than UK. Think about that for a second. AP Poll sucks.

They were rewarded for playing a team with a pulse from a power 4 conference (acc is a joke to me but the networks and playoff view them as a power 4).

If we had played va tech and won we may have been ranked today.

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-03T17:56:50-0400

Blue-ish said:
FSU didn't drop after their first loss because there was no poll. There was the preseason poll and today's poll. FSU went from #10 with 971 poinst to out of ranking with 10 points.

LSU dropped 5 spots to #18. Clemson dropped 11 spots #25.

2024 AP Poll College Football Rankings, Preseason - ESPN

Find the complete NCAAF Preseason rankings on ESPN. Includes the full votes and trend for the top 25 NCAAF teams.

www.espn.com

LSU played another ranked team in a barnburner. Clemson got routed.

Blue-ish · 2024-09-03T18:26:36-0400

Caveman Catfan said:
LSU played another ranked team in a barnburner. Clemson got routed.

Yes, I know and Clemson had a bigger drop. As they should. The poster i responded to said the LSU had a bigger drop than Clemson. Which is not correct.

Cardinals19702 · 2024-09-03T20:14:31-0400

bbncal02 said:
What truly irks me is IofL being rocketed up to 22 in the polls for beating APSU. Austin Peay barely has a semblance of a football program. We at least beat a half-way competent opponent.

The ACC bias is real but won’t last long.

Southern Miss has gone 3-9 in 3 out of the last 4 years. Austin Peay finished 9-3 last year and hasn’t had a losing season since 2020.

bluecoon1 · 2024-09-03T20:22:15-0400

catsfanbgky said:
Vandy had more points than UK. Think about that for a second. AP Poll sucks.

At least we’re sitting at #29 in the Coaches Poll.

WildcatofNati2 · 2024-09-03T20:34:13-0400

Cardinals19702 said:
Southern Miss has gone 3-9 in 3 out of the last 4 years. Austin Peay finished 9-3 last year and hasn’t had a losing season since 2020.

Southern Miss would win 10 games against Austin Peay opponents and Austin Peay would lose 10 games against those of Southern Miss. If you weren't aware, they're in a different world. Southern Miss is a FBS midmajor and Austin Peay is FCS. To start with, that's a 22 scholarship difference.

The difference between a FBS midmajor and FCS, generally speaking, is a gap comparable to P4 and FBS midmajor, possibly even more. Well, except for North Dakota St.

WildcatofNati2 · 2024-09-03T20:38:11-0400

Midmajor FBS teams went 31-2 against FCS opponents last weekend and prior, so let's not compare Southern Miss to Austin Peay.

bbncal02 · 2024-09-03T20:56:21-0400

Cardinals19702 said:
Southern Miss has gone 3-9 in 3 out of the last 4 years. Austin Peay finished 9-3 last year and hasn’t had a losing season since 2020.

Southern Miss is an FBS team dude. Austin Peay is an FCS team. (aka a Div. 1-AA) The level of competition that APSU plays isn't close to what Southern Miss does.
APSU's all time record is 325–562–16 (.369)

Congrats, you beat a cupcake's cupcake.

No one here is claiming SoMS is a juggernaut or that we will run the table (unlike you guys are). We def played a better team than you did though....by a long shot.

We had 31 in 2.5 quarters as well. Didn't even get to finish the game. Probably could've easily dropped 51+ on them.

bbncal02 · 2024-09-03T20:58:24-0400

WildcatofNati2 said:
Southern Miss would win 10 games against Austin Peay opponents and Austin Peay would lose 10 games against those of Southern Miss. If you weren't aware, they're in a different world. Southern Miss is a FBS midmajor and Austin Peay is FCS. To start with, that's a 22 scholarship difference.

The difference between a FBS midmajor and FCS, generally speaking, is a gap comparable to P4 and FBS midmajor, possibly even more. Well, except for North Dakota St.

Exactly. But you're talking to a UofSmell fan that thinks they are geared up for another title run. Can't blame them for not knowing ball. They very rarely get to see what it looks like.

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-03T23:02:54-0400

Cardinals19702 said:
Southern Miss has gone 3-9 in 3 out of the last 4 years. Austin Peay finished 9-3 last year and hasn’t had a losing season since 2020.

Two years in a row Brohm gets a cakewalk schedule. Maybe this will be the year the Cards actually beat the Cats. It’s been a long while since that happened.

BBNinSC · 2024-09-03T23:05:28-0400

Win our next 2 and we should break the Top 25

cats2010 · 2024-09-03T23:54:50-0400

Caveman Catfan said:
Two years in a row Brohm gets a cakewalk schedule. Maybe this will be the year the Cards actually beat the Cats. It’s been a long while since that happened.

This year not as cake as last year. They do play @notre dame and @clemson and have a home game against Miami. They also play @Virginia which always seems to be a tough game for them. Definitely don’t see them having more than 3 losses when they come into Lexington though.

bbncal02 · 2024-09-04T01:56:10-0400

cats2010 said:
This year not as cake as last year. They do play @notre dame and @clemson and have a home game against Miami. They also play @Virginia which always seems to be a tough game for them. Definitely don’t see them having more than 3 losses when they come into Lexington though.

I know we lol at UF losing that game, but Miami is legit this year.

Caveman Catfan · 2024-09-04T05:48:15-0400

bbncal02 said:
I know we lol at UF losing that game, but Miami is legit this year.

Miami looked very good against Florida. It may be that Miami is actually not over-hyped this year. Or, they are overhyped and Napier is done. Of course, Napier may be done, regardless.

cats2010 · 2024-09-04T05:52:29-0400

bbncal02 said:
I know we lol at UF losing that game, but Miami is legit this year.

I think they are but as of now it is based on beating Florida which still has respect nationally when in reality they are not a good football team at the moment. Miami will be last years FSU out of the ACC as their schedule is really weak. At Louisville is likely their hardest game on the schedule.

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