We were jumped by them after a second weak performance against a weak team in Vanderbilt. The showing against Wake was not a reason to be ranked ahead of them again, especially since we are going to play each other. Whoever wins will be the higher ranked team, and will be the more likely to be in the top 8 at the end of November.
I was pretty sure we were overrated at 8 with the shit show offense that we were putting on the field. I'm holding back the high hopes of Book right now because there is little film for defenses to look at on him. Once there is more, they will start to take advantage of the tendencies that we seem unable to self scout as a coaching staff, at least that is my fear.
Sagarin ranks us at 20 because we had two weeks of a shit show offense, and as I understand it, they take things like that into account. I could be wrong on that. But 20 sounds right for the team that was playing Ball State and Vandy, no offense, great defense that won the game.
Just as a note, I do blame the shit offense on the coaches, not Wimbush. Ever since last season when Kelly took offense to saying that Wimbush couldn't throw, he's been trying to make it happen, and he can't. So the offense that Wimbush ran up to that point, which is what he should have been running, went away, which led to a shit show. Also just my opinion.