Its week 5 and many teams are still searching for an identity. Handicappers are left to make several assumptions about teams ability and scheme on both sides of the ball. These assumptions are based off many things, the few games played this year, game scores from last year and previous years scores in similar situations, returning starter info, and the human eye. This week especially I have seen lots of threads saying that certain games will have a definite outcome. So I decided to play WHAT IF for two of the games this weekend that will contribute to assumptions for week 6. Keep in mind this is just hypothetical not what I think is going to happen.
What if.... Wisconsin gets pounded by Ohio St by 23-31 and we find out that Wisconsin is over-rated on both offense and defense. Which caused our brain to think Arizona St defense is horrible then, and wait, maybe USC can beat them tonight. Now USC has a shot because they are up against a bad Arizona St defense and USC has a defense that u would normally see playing on Sundays. Then u think well Washington St. beat them at USC, and u turn on the Stanford game and Washington State is beating them too. Then we realize that well Stanford is over-rated cause their defense is not as good as last year and their offense will struggle against teams with a decent defense. But they just blew out Arizona St?!?! Oh that's right, Arizona St is horrible on defense. And we go into week 6 making new assumptions. Hopefully everything will fall into place soon. I dont know whats going to happen in either game but that could def happen.
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Its week 5 and many teams are still searching for an identity. Handicappers are left to make several assumptions about teams ability and scheme on both sides of the ball. These assumptions are based off many things, the few games played this year, game scores from last year and previous years scores in similar situations, returning starter info, and the human eye. This week especially I have seen lots of threads saying that certain games will have a definite outcome. So I decided to play WHAT IF for two of the games this weekend that will contribute to assumptions for week 6. Keep in mind this is just hypothetical not what I think is going to happen.
What if.... Wisconsin gets pounded by Ohio St by 23-31 and we find out that Wisconsin is over-rated on both offense and defense. Which caused our brain to think Arizona St defense is horrible then, and wait, maybe USC can beat them tonight. Now USC has a shot because they are up against a bad Arizona St defense and USC has a defense that u would normally see playing on Sundays. Then u think well Washington St. beat them at USC, and u turn on the Stanford game and Washington State is beating them too. Then we realize that well Stanford is over-rated cause their defense is not as good as last year and their offense will struggle against teams with a decent defense. But they just blew out Arizona St?!?! Oh that's right, Arizona St is horrible on defense. And we go into week 6 making new assumptions. Hopefully everything will fall into place soon. I dont know whats going to happen in either game but that could def happen.
You still shouldn't make concrete assumptions even after this week as teams play differently every week, even with a good power rating system you still can get fooled by a team laying an egg at any time
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You still shouldn't make concrete assumptions even after this week as teams play differently every week, even with a good power rating system you still can get fooled by a team laying an egg at any time
You still shouldn't make concrete assumptions even after this week as teams play differently every week, even with a good power rating system you still can get fooled by a team laying an egg at any time
Exactly, thats the point Im trying to make
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Quote Originally Posted by RastaMon:
You still shouldn't make concrete assumptions even after this week as teams play differently every week, even with a good power rating system you still can get fooled by a team laying an egg at any time
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