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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 2456651, member: 1220"] It might seem like I have a running agenda against Stanford, but to me they just seem like a poster team for being rated by reputation. Granted in the past they have often done better than they were originally rated but past performances hasn't stopped the voters from rating Tenn high every year. I just can't understand how they can rate Stanford one better than Oregon St. No amount or rational other than reputation can account for this. Stanford has 4 losses all except one were blow outs and the other was by ten points. All of Oregon st. loses were close and the end spreads were achieved via fouls and free throws. The teams they lost to were Duke and ND. Granted Stanfords strength of schedule should count for something but not when they have lost two more games than Oregon st. Oregon st. had a close loss to ND who they played Uconn close. Ucon blew out Stanford. Oregon was in the game against Duke while Duke beat the team that blew out Stanford once and beat them by ten the second time. The only game not a factor comparatively is Baylor and they blew out Stanford. Stanford has done nothing to show they are a good team other than playing and losing to highly ranked teams. Getting blown out by a lot of highly ranked teams should not give them a pass for their four losses. They need to actually beat a decent team even once. It seems like the voters are strongly influenced by Tara being the coach at Stanford just as Tenn is still riding the Summit train to inflated preseason rankings. [/QUOTE]

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