Illinois #11 in 1/19 AP Poll

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Piotyr
I'm not sure how far the AP will drop Iowa State, but to me it should be 15 spots, but I expect they will only drop them like 8 spots.
 
#6      
Calvin
Curious how much the pollsters drop Iowa State. Seems like losing 2 in one week you get a discount.
 
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blackdog
Piotyr said:
I'm not sure how far the AP will drop Iowa State, but to me it should be 15 spots, but I expect they will only drop them like 8 spots.
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Close and a very generous 7 spot drop especially have getting absolutely mauled by previously unranked KU (who jumped in at 19)

Also Miami (OH) getting love for being 19-0 despite probably not being anywhere close to a top25 quality team. Good for them though!
 
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RollChief
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Good Morning, Illini Nation: How I voted this week

Two more wins and another slight bump for Illinois
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Ok I have to ask, what is the rationale for putting Vandy and Iowa State ahead of Illinois? We've lost two games in the past two months and the teams we lost to are #2 and #7, respectively.

Iowa State lost two in the last week to teams that were unranked (as of last week). Vandy also lost two in the past week, one of which was unranked. If we did either of those, we'd be unranked.

Is this for the sake of journalistic integrity to rank Illinois conservatively, or is this trolling?
 
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BDMAN
jamarvelous31 said:
Still dealing with the overly harsh punishment for losing to Nebraska.

Solution is to win out this week..
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Not too sure it was overly harsh at the time Nebby was not number 7, they were not even ranked when they beat us, afterwards they went from unranked to 15th and have justified it by continuing to win. If we want to get our respect back continue to win and beat the boilers on Saturday, the 24th at their place. Top 10 after that if we do
 
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Fighter of the Nightman
BDMAN said:
Not too sure it was overly harsh at the time Nebby was not number 7, they were not even ranked when they beat us, afterwards they went from unranked to 15th and have justified it by continuing to win. If we want to get our respect back continue to win and beat the boilers on Saturday, the 24th at their place. Top 10 after that if we do
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Nebraska was ranked #23 when they beat us on a 30-foot buzzer beater, and we were #13. We had also won a road game at Ohio State earlier in the week. The pollsters dropped us SEVEN spots to #20 for going 1-1 that week, lol. Compare that to Iowa State, who dropped 7 spots for losing by 21 at unranked Kansas and by 9 to a previously 9-8 (1-3) Cincinnati team, lol.

There's really no way to argue our drop after the Nebraska loss wasn't excessively harsh, but even if it was reasonable for the time ... as a pollster, you can't logically keep bumping Nebraska up every single week and not retroactively conclude that maybe you shouldn't have plummeted Illinois for losing to them, haha. Want to drop us from #13 to #20 at the time? Fine. However, if you are inching Nebraska closer to the top 5 every week on your ballot, maybe you should give Illinois a more substantial bump in light of that.
 
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IllinialuminAZ
Iowa State only dropping 7 spots is certainly a head scratcher. Does anyone know off hand how far we dropped after losing to Nebraska? I feel like we dropped at least that far just losing the one game.

NM - Fighter answered my question.
 
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