I stopped submitting a poll ballot
I stopped submitting my poll ballot, because I SUCK at prognosticating!!!!!!! This season has absolutely thrown me for a loop. I'm not sure if it is because I just don't know what I think I know or if every team out there is bi-polar. Aside from that, I really don't feel like I can devote the proper amount of time to researching that I should....I don't want to be one of THOSE voters.
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Dude, it's an inexact science! Don't be so hard on yourself!
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Just make your best effort. No voter here is perfect, and there is no correct answer. The poll is better with more people voting.
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There's definitely more parity this year in every conference than in years past. The Socon will probably have a case for 4 in the playoffs. So will the Southland. the CAA will probably have a case for 5, 6 if Richmond upsets JMU. The MVFC has a case for 6. The Big Sky will have a case for 3 and maybe 4 (they are a little harder to crack). Even the Big South has a case for 2.
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youngterrier
Even the Big South has a case for 2.
Probably not when all the regular season games have been played.
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To be fair, this season it is probably quite hard.
1. JMU
2. NDSU
3. JSU
After that just pull names out of a hat.
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youngterrier
There's definitely more parity this year in every conference than in years past. The Socon will probably have a case for 4 in the playoffs. So will the Southland. the CAA will probably have a case for 5, 6 if Richmond upsets JMU. The MVFC has a case for 6. The Big Sky will have a case for 3 and maybe 4 (they are a little harder to crack). Even the Big South has a case for 2.
Honestly, I don't think any league except CAA, MVFC, SoCon, Big Sky, and Southland should have 2 or more in the field this year. I wish we did not have auto bids because I firmly believe those 4 in the SoCon, 6-7 in MVFC, 5-6 in CAA, and 4-5 in Big Sky, and 3-4 in SLC would finish 1 or 2 in the NEC, Big South, Patriot League, SWAC, and MEAC this year. I think the only teams from those leagues that are truly top 30-35 caliber are Kennesaw State, Grambling State, and NC A&T. I have 2 of them in my top 25 and the 3rd team in my top 5-7 out of it but none of them higher than like 17 right now.
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KPSUL
Probably not when all the regular season games have been played.
That's what I'm thinking. There will be a lot of these teams who appear to have a case that will eliminate themselves over the next week or two.
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SmallCollegeFBFan
Honestly, I don't think any league except CAA, MVFC, SoCon, Big Sky, and Southland should have 2 or more in the field this year. I wish we did not have auto bids because I firmly believe those 4 in the SoCon, 6-7 in MVFC, 5-6 in CAA, and 4-5 in Big Sky, and 3-4 in SLC would finish 1 or 2 in the NEC, Big South, Patriot League, SWAC, and MEAC this year. I think the only teams from those leagues that are truly top 30-35 caliber are Kennesaw State, Grambling State, and NC A&T. I have 2 of them in my top 25 and the 3rd team in my top 5-7 out of it but none of them higher than like 17 right now.
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That's what I'm thinking. There will be a lot of these teams who appear to have a case that will eliminate themselves over the next week or two.
Are you a Big 12 basketball fan? I mean the MVFC is a G5 level league. The CAA is also a borderline G5 level league. Keep the AQ because otherwise we get 2 conferences with 12-14 teams.
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PaladinFan
To be fair, this season it is probably quite hard.
1. JMU
2. NDSU
3. JSU
After that just pull names out of a hat.
Why is JSU a more guaranteed top 3 than Central Arkansas?
UCA's best two wins: Sam Houston State and McNeese State
JSU's best two wins: Austin Peay and Liberty? Eastern Illinois?
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Milktruck74
I stopped submitting my poll ballot, because I SUCK at prognosticating!!!!!!! This season has absolutely thrown me for a loop. I'm not sure if it is because I just don't know what I think I know or if every team out there is bi-polar. Aside from that, I really don't feel like I can devote the proper amount of time to researching that I should....I don't want to be one of THOSE voters.
Well to be honest Milk this just sounds like an excuse to me. None of us are prognosticating anything in the first place outside of the preseason poll and possibly a little bit in the first couple of polls since less has happened. We are evaluating and giving our best guesses at what we have witnessed...notice this is past tense?
You always did a fine job and if we all did this we wouldn't have much of an output around here would we? Sorry that you quit the poll because I would have liked to see you carry on with us for sure.