krindor

I lean 2008 as the most important. Not to downplay 2004 at all (first BCS buster and a BCS bowl win is huge), but it was just a matter of who would be first. There’d been lots of one-off teams doing nearly as well and the national consensus was that someone was going to get there at some near point

1998 Tulane was #10
1999 Marshall was #12
2003…[Read more]

Iowa (like Utah to large extent) benefits from always being at least pretty good. On the other side you’ve got teams like Auburn or Florida St who have hit higher highs…. but also have some pretty ugly depths.

Ask and you shall receive. Don’t have the data for Iowa and Oklahoma St unfortunately, but I do happen to have it for TCU, Boise St and BYU

Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind!

As a general rule, most in that class haven’t been rated yet. But we start recruiting them long before they get a star rating

I’ve debated sharing a whole slew of stats/data here. Truthfully, a lot of the data would go over better here than there

I think the two have become conflated. He definitely hurt his leg/hamstring in some way at some point. He had the old man walk. And he definitely hurt himself on the long run (cut on his hand).

I think in talking about his injuries, those have just kind of been merged

We definitely had a lack of chunk plays against Oregon… but that’s not a new weakness. Our offense is good… but not explosive. Here’s Utah’s rank in

Plays of 10+ yards: #12/131 (excellent; worth noting that USC and Washington are tied for #1)
Plays of 20+ yards: #48/131 (not terrible, but definitely not great – right with USF, Coastal…[Read more]

All that said, I’d much rather take the harder route and try to play our way in, rather than backing in by enough other teams having to lose.

Consider me a Huskies fan for tonight.

Hmm, if Washington loses (and USC beats Notre Dame), I think we end up in an NY6.

Right now we’re #14, so would need to move up to #11. So that means 3 teams would have to drop behind us. #13 Washington would be one.

Then #8 LSU (after losing today and likely against Georgia as well) would likely put them behind us

Same story on #9 Oregon (if…[Read more]

Hadn’t thought about it…but that probably puts us in almost by default. Generally the committee won’t drop teams too much for losing in a CCG..but I’m guessing we’ll already be right even with Oregon after this week anyway, so then losing to USC would be enough for us to edge ahead

I think most of it would be favored… but not Oregon St to knock off Oregon