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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 4812777, member: 1220"] Last week both ND and Indiana with one loss were ranked behind UConn with two losses. Loss's have to count for something even if it is too ranked teams. Now UConn might be better than their won loss record but they still have three losses. Some UConn fans seem to feel that the team should only be ranked behind the teams that beat them. I remember the year when they lost to SC, Baylor and Oregon all by significant double figures. Yet UConn fans interpreted it as Uconn being the fourth best team in the country. That reflects rationalization rather than reason. Now we can not really assume that all the teams ranked ahead of UConn at theis poirnt in time are better than them. Probably not, but we can also not assume that UConn is better than them either. All they have to go on is based on losses and wins and all UConns losses were not close. We need to be farther in the season before we can make a better assessment of which losses are excusable. Right now they just can not justify ranking a 3 loss team over one loss teams who also lost to ranked opponents. Frankly, UConn has been getting the benefit of the doubt for many years now in respect to rankings. The UConn name and Geno as coach was the major factor, but that seems to have worn down now. They were not the only ones that were elevated because of their reputation but once the favorites no longer continue to constantly win that will eventually cease to be the case. Tenn. higher placement in the playoff brackets dispite getting bounced early every year is just one example of how name reputation carried unjustifiable weight [/QUOTE]

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