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weekly polls do, and looking at a whole season, which naturally gives more weight to early season defeats (ours!) which don't have as much impact week after week. All the "Miami deserves to be in over ND" talking heads are giving equal weight to every result without looking at overall improvement, game control, and who is playing backups in the 4th quarter as opposed to having your starting QB throw a TD pass with 41 seconds left. Pitt playing poorly against Miami -- and throwing 2-yard passes the whole fourth quarter -- surely didn't help us. Seems to me the only justification for dropping us in the rankings is to look less at season-long improvement and to give equal weight to every result regardless of timing, which means Miami's two crappy losses are just part of a total picture, not evidence that they worsened during the season, which they undoubtedly did.