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Not a lot of USF love in the ESPN Power index...

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Not a surprise.

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ESPN's latest Football Power Index has #FSU at No. 4, behind OhioSt, Bama and Okla. #Gators, 15, Miami 16. #USF 51

http://www.espn.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings

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Best thing that could have happened to the team in the off season.  Should put a real chip on their shoulders going into summer and the beginning of the season.  Will also keep them from reading their own press clippings and getting too full of themselves.

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If anyone understands this please explain.  It still lists projects us with 9.8 wins, which is 8th or 9th best in terms of number of wins.  To me this is more important than anything.  From what I read its kind of what Vegas uses to predict wins, etc.  Not a big deal, especially when you consider how bad our D was last season.

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2 minutes ago, JoeB said:

If anyone understands this please explain.  It still lists projects us with 9.8 wins, which is 8th or 9th best in terms of number of wins.  To me this is more important than anything.  From what I read its kind of what Vegas uses to predict wins, etc.  Not a big deal, especially when you consider how bad our D was last season.

My guess is we could go almost undefeated next year and with our schedule they would still consider us comparatively low on the "power" index. It's an easy way for them to favor the power 5.

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This is not directed at the OP. Who gives a **** about ESPNs opinion anymore.

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I didn't need espn to tell me our schedule is hot garbage.

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If our schedule is hot garbage then we should be unbeaten this season . But if we lose to anyone then that puts our Bulls just a hair above garbage no ?

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3 hours ago, mellobull said:

If our schedule is hot garbage then we should be unbeaten this season . But if we lose to anyone then that puts our Bulls just a hair above garbage no ?

Should be unbeaten, yes. On paper, there isn't a team on the schedule who's better than us. That's going to be the rub all year. If we do lose, it will be to an inferior team without much on the schedule to overcome that impression from voters. Even a 11-2 season with the conference championship game isn't going to hold a lot of weight when our best OOC win is Illinois and a couple loses in conference to middle of the pack AAC teams.

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