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Message: [QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 3833012, member: 591"] True about the game differential, Arkansas has played among the most games for any team. Which, BTW, requires a bit of luck. But all things being equal, even though some of the games OOC for them were not particularly high quality, they were experience that other teams don't have. And as someone mentioned, "graduation", or departing players, on a team by team basis affects things with less time than usual to "gel". Arizona has been a bit "off" by all reports this year, before their current "pause". Its rather inexplicable in some ways (key players returning, new players and transfers high quality) but the Covid protocols that affected practice and the erratic and limited game schedule undoubtedly played a part - and each team is going to respond differently. All of that said, I don't really put the over-all upsets we have seen, both major and minor, as any "pattern"; it is a combo of the team's Covid experience affecting their readiness and the fact that a lot of teams don't have a lot of talent differential. [/QUOTE]