The Golden Eagles are dispatched their non-ranked opponents with relative ease so far this season while suffering their only two losses
against teams ranked in the top 25.
Marquette will play four matches this season
against teams ranked in the preseason top 25 and a total of six matches against teams that appeared on multiple ballots.
Both players have pretty similar averages, with Tevez scoring
against teams ranked on average of 11.52, to Aguero's 11.13 — Tevez's extra two goals against the bottom 6 means he has a slightly worse average.
Fitz had 7 games
against teams ranked 25th or worse....
Seriously... almost half the games Fitz played were
against teams ranked in the bottom 7 in the entire league... that seems almost impossible.
The Phoenix has 7 wins over FCS opponents this year alone, including 4
against teams ranked in the FCS Top 25 when Elon beat them.
In two seasons, McElwain is 14 - 0
against teams ranked 61st or worse in S&P + and just 5 - 8
against teams ranked better.
They have 3 losses and all of them come
against Teams ranked in the Top 5 currently..
As Blogging the Boys points out, the Packers are 0 - 5
against teams ranked in the league's top half when it comes to points per game.
Norway sat deep, and restricted England to just two shots on target, which is no where near enough
against a team ranked outside the world's top fifty.
We also know a few big - picture basics that the committee cares about — wins
against teams it ranks, wins against bowl teams, and overall command of games — and can think about those things as we go along.
Not exact matches
Everyone is filling out brackets and
ranking teams against each other.
Sales departments indicate the metrics by which their
team will be judged, and the tool
ranks employees based on their success
against those metrics.
In spite of every other
ranking factor, Google's webspam
team will still occasionally take manual action
against certain sites which can take half a year to a year to recover from after you've cleaned up the problems.
Between the halves, U.S. Coach Buzz Bennett, an earnest young man but hardly closer to first -
rank as a coach than his players, tried to goad his men to better performances by saying, «Don't you guys realize that's a high school
team you're playing
against?
Finding a way to near the.500 mark in conference play or
against top 25
teams would help; last year, they went 3 - 6 in the Big XII and were just 2 - 5
against ranked teams.
The Huskies have to beat three
ranked - ish
teams and another.500 - ish
team to finish 13 - 0, including this week
against USC.
The Cyclones» 33 - 31 victory over the host Sooners in 1990 played out in startlingly similar fashion: a
ranked OU went up 14 - 0 in the first quarter
against an ISU
team dealing with a quarterback injury, then threw it into cruise too early.
Because, it is an audacious task I am telling the Gunners to perform, even
against the belief of some Gunners in the
rank & file of their
team.
The third -
ranked Sooners would likely have too much offense for the Cyclones, and giving a new quarterback (Kyle Kempt) his first start on the road
against a top - five
team doesn't usually work out particularly well.
Still, the Seahawks will be shorthanded
against a 49ers
team that
ranks 19th in the league
against the run.
In fact, the loss was just the fourth ever by a
ranked FBS
team against an FCS opponent.
Rare is the
team that has enough time to let downfield passing plays develop
against Georgia's defense, which
ranks second nationally behind Alabama with just 5.58 yards allowed per pass attempt.
Also, they got their fifth Win
against a really good opponent in
Team Schwartz, who came into the Week at 3 - 1 and # 3 in the
Rankings.
This
Team started the season, their first run together, with 3 of 4 Games
against Teams currently
Ranked in the Top 5 (Lalez, Maione and Sternberg)..
Next Sunday they'll take on
Team Gutman who have thrived
against top - flight competition this Season and in two Weeks it'll be the 8 - 2
Team Zimmerman crew who desperately want to get back into the Top 5 of the
Rankings.
Climbing up and into the
Rankings this week is
Team Hrusocky who secured their first W of the season last Thursday Night
against Team Saltzberg.
However, how can I move them down when they had by far the best showing anyone has had in 5 weeks
against the top
ranked team?
Plenty of time for them to climb back up the
Rankings and that can begin as early as next week in Kickball
against Team Kirshner!
This causes a false sense of security for bettors and can create excellent value betting
against the nation's top
ranked teams.
They've started
against two of the top three
ranked Teams in the Power
Rankings.
They will look to forget about that and shoot back up the
Rankings against # 4
Team Hampton in Week 5.
Team Shamberg got into the Win column for the first time this Season with a hard fought victory
against Team Hernandez and with that they earned a spot in the
Rankings.
No wins
against top - 10
teams or
ranked wins besides Stanford and Stanford [Sanford and Son theme plays], though both of those Stanford wins might still outrank any of Bama's.
Team Liss has proven their skills in basketball and jumped up to # 6 in the
Rankings as a result, but will they be able to execute in Flag Football during Week 4
against the new squad in the League,
Team Slovis?
They close 2014 with # 4
Team Horwitz in a co-Accelerated Games of the Week spot — an opportunity to right the ship
against the top of the Power
Rankings and close 2014 with a true exclamation point.
Now there is a College Football Playoff, which pits the top four
teams in the country
against each other, instead of BCS
rankings.
Will a close road win
against a potential bowl
team be enough for the 11 - 0 Herd to crack the
rankings?
The Tide went either 3 - 1 or 2 - 1
against ranked teams, depending on whether Fresno State wins the Mountain West, and had seven.500 - plus wins, but zero top - 10 wins.
Dropping points
against lower
ranked teams is what costs you the Premiership.
Francois had a rating of 118
against ranked teams, and 153
against unranked.
The road is about to toughen significantly, as Notre Dame still has games
against currently
ranked opponents like USC, NC State and Miami, along with stronger
teams like Navy and Stanford.
The win over the Wildcats, which came on the heels of an 84 — 83 victory
against No. 25 LSU on Nov. 29, marked the first time the Cougars had defeated
ranked teams back - to - back since the 1984 NCAA tournament — the last of three straight Final Four trips during the glory days of Phi Slamma Jamma.
Saturday
against Fresno State, USC ran 105 offensive snaps,
ranking behind only a MAC
team nationally.
Going into Friday's game
against Pittston the Bulldogs were 9 - 0 and, in this nation of 12,768 football - playing high schools, the
team is
ranked No. 1 by USA Today.
Chelsea do have a habbit of losing
against middle and low
rank teams so it's a good thing that we may hope chelsea will stutter
against these
teams like today so we can closd the gap of top position it's difficult but not impossible..
Remember a few of the things the committee values: record vs. committee -
ranked teams, record
against bowl - eligible
teams, and whatever vague sense of qualitative analysis the committee decides to articulate at any point.
Of course the wins
against lesser opponents should be convincing and we may need help from one or two 10 to 15
ranked teams losing.
In dispatching Alabama, Notre Dame and nine other
teams, the Nittany Lions racked up a lavish 326 points,
against 123, and entered the postseason unbeaten,
ranked No. 2 and scheduled to face off
against No. 1 Miami and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde in the Fiesta Bowl.
Italy and Sweden are the other two
teams that make up the group and the Three Lions will be hoping to get off to the perfect start with a win
against their Portuguese counterparts, that boast reported Arsenal target William Carvalho [via Mirror Sport] in their
ranks.