Final AP Poll

[hogcard1964]

Disappointed

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ohio-state-no--1-and-tcu-no--3-in-final-ap-poll-of-2014-season-081035803.html

ARLINGTON, Texas – The four teams that made the College Football Playoff are in the top five of the final AP poll, but two are behind a team that missed out.

Ohio State finishes the year atop the AP poll after beating Oregon 42-20 in for the national title Monday night and TCU, which demolished Ole Miss in the Peach Bowl, jumps up to No. 3 from No. 6 in the pre-bowl poll.

TCU was at No. 3 in the next-to-last set of College Football Playoff rankings but fell out of the top four in the final rankings after Baylor beat Kansas State and Ohio State beat Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship.

Oregon finishes the year at No. 2 and Alabama is at No. 4. Florida State, which lost to Oregon in the Rose Bowl, is at No. 5 in a tie with Michigan State.

After beating Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl, Georgia Tech moved up to No. 8. The entire poll is below.

1. Ohio State (59 first place votes)
2. Oregon
3. TCU
4. Alabama
5. Florida State
5. Michigan State
7. Baylor
8. Georgia Tech
9. Georgia
10. UCLA
11. Mississippi State
12. Arizona State
13. Wisconsin
14. Missouri
15. Clemson
16. Boise State
17. Ole Miss
18. Kansas State
19. Arizona
20. USC
21. Utah
22. Auburn
23. Marshall
24. Louisville
25. Memphis

[The_Iceman]

We would smoke Marshall and Memphis.

[Großer Kriegschwein]

We would smoke Marshall and Memphis.

No question about it

[The_Boot_stops_here]

We would smoke Marshall and Memphis.

As well as Louisville and Utah

[RazorBassin]

Any of those teams 15-25 I think we beat at home or on a neutral field.  Could beat most of them on the road.  Next year I believe we finally get the respect we deserve.

[dagnamit]

We would smoke Marshall and Memphis.

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

[LRHawg]

gonna have to earn respect next year. we Obviously were better at the end of the year than the last 5 or so.

[Andrew Hogfan]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

Yes we would.

[dagnamit]

Yes we would.

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

[discombobulationist]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

HAHAHAHAHAAA! Good one! Memphis, haha. Whooo, needed that.

[COCHISE]

Ole Miss at #17 is a joke.

[Andrew Hogfan]

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

Yes. And they wouldn't come close. What's wrong with you. You know we very easily could of won 2-3 of the games we lost.

[DeltaBoy]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

Tiger High could not win the 7A West this year in Ark.

[dagnamit]

Yes. And they wouldn't come close. What's wrong with you. You know we very easily could of won 2-3 of the games we lost.

Whats wrong with all the folks that vote in the AP?

[The Hogfather]

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

Ole Miss beat Memphis 24-3 and we beat Ole Miss 30-0.

[The Hogfather]

Whats wrong with all the folks that vote in the AP?

They only look at records.

[discombobulationist]

Whats wrong with all the folks that vote in the AP?

AP voters care about the records. Look at ESPN's Football Power Index. Arkansas is at #14, Memphis at #38.

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

[redeye]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

You are delirious.

We smoked Ole Miss, who's ranked higher then Memphis, so there's that.  I know Memphis has a good team, but then you think people were not impressed with us holding Texas to the lowest FBS offensive output all season.

Seriously, you're delirious.  Find the nearest mental hospital and check yourself in ASAP.

[PORKULATOR]

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

You can't honestly believe this. What are you, a troll?!?!?

[Inhogswetrust]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

I live close to Memphis. ALL reasonable people know Memphis can't play that well against the bigs. If you think BYU was a big this year you're wrong.

[dagnamit]

I believe it would of been a very good game.

[Redhogs]

I believe it would of been a very good game.

Kinda like N. Ill. ?  Hilarious.

[shotgun7]

Did not expect to finish in the top 25, but we should start there next year.  :razorback:

[bigdaddyhawg]

I think there's a typo/mistake in that AP poll.  I didn't see Oklahoma anywhere in that season ending Top 25.

[GuvHog]

AP voters care about the records. Look at ESPN's Football Power Index. Arkansas is at #14, Memphis at #38.

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

The AP voters don't care about power ratings, they only care about wins and losses. A 7-6 team getting in the top 25 is very, very, VERY rare.

[arkansasrazorback]

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

Yea we played within 1 point of Bama, 7 of mississippi st., blew out 2 top 20 teams with shutouts but Memphis would have been a barn burner.  Maybe even a loss. 

sarcasm off.  Better say that because I'm not sure if you are smart enough to realize.

[Adam Stokes]

Having watched every game BYU played this season, we finished the season MUCH better than BYU, and Memphis squeaked by them in their bowl game.  Arkansas would beat Memphis by 20+ .  Not even close.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

Did you watch any Memphis games this year? I watched them play 4 games and saw about half a dozen Hog games. It would be a really good game 50/50 chance either team would win.

Dude I am from Memphis, graduated from Memphis, and pull for them except if they're playing the hogs and no they would not have a chance.

They'd maybe hang for 2 quarters but that's about it.

[Hogsmo Kramer]

Ole Miss at #17 is a joke.

^^^This^^^

That whole poll is a joke based on this right here.

[mizzouman]

Where would you Hog fans rank the Razorbacks for this past year and why?

[bigdaddyhawg]

Where would you Hog fans rank the Razorbacks for this past year and why?

IMO, somewhere 25-30 would be appropriate.  Where would you rank them?

[hogcard1964]

Did not expect to finish in the top 25, but we should start there next year.  :razorback:

Really?

I thought we would have came in somewhere around 17-20.

[Deep Shoat]

I doubt it. Texas was awful. Memphis can play. Most reasonable people were not too impressed with the win over the Down and out Horns.

That's stupid.  Our win over Texas was the biggest and best outside of TCU's beatdown of Ole Miss and the playoff games.  Considered so by EVERYONE with a brain.

Check out the ratings and the coverage, if you to debate.

[Tejano Jawg]

I think there's a typo/mistake in that AP poll.  I didn't see Oklahoma anywhere in that season ending Top 25.

+1

[Hogsmo Kramer]

Where would you Hog fans rank the Razorbacks for this past year and why?

23-25 is what I thought.

Based on our wins AND our losses I think that's where we should've ended up.

[Deep Shoat]

Really?

I thought we would have came in somewhere around 17-20.

6 loss teams don't make the poll.

We'll be ranked next season from start to finish.

[Swine-as-wine]

Doesn't matter who we could beat in that list or not. Polls
with 6 loss teams on it, lose legitimacy.  Doesn't matter if
we may be the best 6 loss team in the nation. We ended up
barely above .500, and last in our division of the SEC. Va Tech
is the only team that beat the national champion. They're
7-6 too. They deserve to be in the top  25 about as much as
we do.....not at all. As much as it helps being ranked at the
end of this year, in as far as it helping to be ranked at the
beginning of next year........remember that Miss State wasn't
ranked at all starting this year, and ended up #1 at the time of
the first playoff rankings.

[longpig]

"Arkansas is a top 25 team that won't make it into the top 25 all season" - miscellaneous talking head

[Pork Twain]

Whats wrong with all the folks that vote in the AP?

Not the sharpest marbles

[scorekeeper]

With the CFP in place 2-25 doesn't really matter anymore.

[redeye]

Where would you Hog fans rank the Razorbacks for this past year and why?

I'm not sure we deserve to be ranked and haven't really given it a thought.  However, if our name were Auburn, I bet we'd be ranked right now.

[BorderPatrol]

With the CFP in place 2-25 doesn't really matter anymore.

Wait, what? They did in the BCS error? I don't guess I get your line of thinking.

bp

[LRRandy]

I'm not sure we deserve to be ranked and haven't really given it a thought.  However, if our name were Auburn, I bet we'd be ranked right now.

not with 6 losses.

[hogcard1964]

6 loss teams don't make the poll.

We'll be ranked next season from start to finish.

I thought the justification for vaulting Ohio St. over two teams ranked ahead of them was the "overall body of work"?

[LRRandy]

I thought the justification for vaulting Ohio St. over two teams ranked ahead of them was the "overall body of work"?

thats to make the playoff. This is the ap poll ranking

[bigdaddyhawg]

I thought the justification for vaulting Ohio St. over two teams ranked ahead of them was the "overall body of work"?

True, but in our body of work we had 6 losses.

[hogcard1964]

thats to make the playoff. This is the ap poll ranking

Ahhhh, I see.

[Atlhogfan1]

TCU is the new Boise who replaced VT. 

[Atlhogfan1]

Doesn't matter who we could beat in that list or not. Polls
with 6 loss teams on it, lose legitimacy.  Doesn't matter if
we may be the best 6 loss team in the nation. We ended up
barely above .500, and last in our division of the SEC. Va Tech
is the only team that beat the national champion. They're
7-6 too. They deserve to be in the top  25 about as much as
we do.....not at all. As much as it helps being ranked at the
end of this year, in as far as it helping to be ranked at the
beginning of next year........remember that Miss State wasn't
ranked at all starting this year, and ended up #1 at the time of
the first playoff rankings.

Polls should rank the best 25 teams in college football based on the consensus of the voters.  Records play too big of a role as they don't always provide near of context.  CFN does a nice job of trying to be realistic with their polls although they may get a little extreme sometimes.  Their way of doing it though is better. 

[hogcard1964]

TCU is the new Boise who replaced VT.

Wasn't Va Tech pretty good for a long time?