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#5 UCLA @ Washington St - 2/05/21

Who will win this game?

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Exciting game as usual in the Pac 12. UCLA didn’t have the focus down the stretch like they normally do. There execution was poor. What a win for Wash St. This team cracks me up how they keep coming at you.
 
Tazmazz said:
This team cracks me up how they keep coming at you.
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They really do. There's nothing about them that really jumps out at me, except they don't give up and they are tenacious.
 
Hopefully Wash St sneaks back into the top 25. With a 9-6 record seems unlikely but they’ve beaten two top 10 teams
 
Tazmazz said:
Hopefully Wash St sneaks back into the top 25. With a 9-6 record seems unlikely but they’ve beaten two top 10 teams
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Arkansas has 6 or 7 losses... so who knows.
 
triaddukefan said:
Arkansas has 6 or 7 losses... so who knows.
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Yeah but losses to SEC teams are just as good as wins, Pac 12 doesn't get that kind of respect. :rolleyes: Mississippi St. is 8-5 and still ranked somehow.

edit--and Mississippi St. is missing Arkansas's wins over Baylor and UConn as trump cards
 
nwhoopfan said:
Yeah but losses to SEC teams are just as good as wins, Pac 12 doesn't get that kind of respect. :rolleyes: Mississippi St. is 8-5 and still ranked somehow.

edit--and Mississippi St. is missing Arkansas's wins over Baylor and UConn as trump cards
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I agree to an extent, but for Washington State they lost 5 of 6 games in a row which is why they've dropped. Also, no one expected them to be good in the preseason, where as Mississippi State was projected to be a top 10 team and preseason expectations can infiltrate rankings deep into conference play depending on schedules.

Washington State has a cushy schedule coming up aside from the Arizona game, as every other game left is against a team with a losing conference record. And they have 4 games lined up against the bottom feeders (Utah, Washington, and Cal) so they should finish with a solid record.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Yeah but losses to SEC teams are just as good as wins, Pac 12 doesn't get that kind of respect. :rolleyes: Mississippi St. is 8-5 and still ranked somehow.

edit--and Mississippi St. is missing Arkansas's wins over Baylor and UConn as trump cards
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Bull crap. Oregon is ranked number one in both computer rankings based on three good conference losses - even though the whole conference has no good OOC wins
 
visitingcock said:
Bull crap. Oregon is ranked number one in both computer rankings based on three good conference losses - even though the whole conference has no good OOC wins
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Where are you seeing Oregon #1? Anyway I'm talking about human polls, not computer rankings.
 
bballnut90 said:
I agree to an extent, but for Washington State they lost 5 of 6 games in a row which is why they've dropped. Also, no one expected them to be good in the preseason, where as Mississippi State was projected to be a top 10 team and preseason expectations can infiltrate rankings deep into conference play depending on schedules.

Washington State has a cushy schedule coming up aside from the Arizona game, as every other game left is against a team with a losing conference record. And they have 4 games lined up against the bottom feeders (Utah, Washington, and Cal) so they should finish with a solid record.
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It’s about time Wash St had a cushy stretch. Both Cal games cancelled. That’s two wins gone if they don’t make up the 2nd one. Wash St is good enough to hang with the best in Pac 12 (except Stanford) but can then be beat by a USC. Athletic teams match up well against them.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
They really do. There's nothing about them that really jumps out at me, except they don't give up and they are tenacious.
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...so are you a convert? :rolleyes:
 
nwhoopfan said:
Where are you seeing Oregon #1? Anyway I'm talking about human polls, not computer rankings.
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ithey are number 4 in both polls (sorry to passionate about their gross overranking in the computer polls) the humans may have their biases but the computers have bias built in.

do the humans have an SEC bias? Maybe, but the SEC has beaten some good teams from other conferences while the PAC . . .
 
I love the Pac 12 but this year they are way overrated. Wash St isn’t that great and they’re giving everyone fits besides Stanford.
 
visitingcock said:
ithey are number 4 in both polls (sorry to passionate about their gross overranking in the computer polls) the humans may have their biases but the computers have bias built in.

do the humans have an SEC bias? Maybe, but the SEC has beaten some good teams from other conferences while the PAC . . .
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I also don't see how Oregon keeps showing up at #4 in the computer rankings. Computer formulas have their flaws too, just like human polls are fallible.
 
Tazmazz said:
I love the Pac 12 but this year they are way overrated. Wash St isn’t that great and they’re giving everyone fits besides Stanford.
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I definitely thought the conference was better overall last season.
 
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