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Jeff Metcalfe
The Arizona Republic
Sept. 23, 2007 12:03 PM
Arizona State broke into the national rankings Sunday for the first time this season and the first time of the Dennis Erickson era.
The Sun Devils (4-0) are No. 23 in the Associated Press poll and No. 25 in the USA Today coaches poll. They play at Stanford (1-2, 0-1) at 7 p.m. Saturday.
ASU also is No. 11 in the Sagarin computer rankings.
The Sun Devils are among 23 teams still undefeated in the Football Bowl Subdivision. Four of those have new coaches: ASU (Dennis Erickson), No. 12 Boston College (Jeff Jagodzinski), No. 24 Cincinnati (Brian Kelly) and Michigan State (Mark Dantonio).
Erickson is the first ASU coach to have the Sun Devils ranked in the Associated Press poll in his first season.
I just saw that, pretty sweet. We are tied with Purdue for 25th though in USA Today and Yahoo has them at #25. Hopefully blowout over Stanford will put us over. #23 on Harris Interactive also...
I have to say I am a little surprised.. but this is good...
If we can take care of business against Wash St and Stanford, between this week and next week, we very well could be in the top 12-14 by Oct 6th....
one week at a time!
I highly doubt they'd climb that high due to the weak schedule so far. If they beat Washington (and Washington wins between now and then), especially by a similar margin to what the Buckeyes did, maybe they'll go into the top 25.
I think voters are going to be very conservative w/ ASU since they've been such let downs lately. Furthermore, outside of USC its rare that Pac 10 teams are given the benefit of the doubt.
If ASU is 7-0 heading into the Cal game (which is also homecoming), I think SDS will be rocking, it'll be a ton of fun.
I think voters are going to be very conservative w/ ASU since they've been such let downs lately. Furthermore, outside of USC its rare that Pac 10 teams are given the benefit of the doubt.
I don't agree. You're mostly correct, but you leave out the DE factor. Voters respect DE, and will now start to give him the benefit of the doubt...
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This is an honest question not smack.. But how does ASU get ranked by playing a bunch of scrub teams?
SJSU was in a bowl last year and Oregon State is a middle of the road Pac10 team, not a 'scrub' team. OSU will most likely beat UofA, so they aren't necessarily 'scrubs'.
Most voters don't watch anywhere close to all of the games, and they obviously couldn't watch the OSU game since it wasnt on TV, so they said "hey ASU is a Pac 10 team, thats undefeated, with a great coach, and a bunch of teams ahead of them lost, Ill put them in the top 25". I dont see how its confusing or hard to figure out.
SJSU is horrific. Who cares what they did last year (beating exactly no good teams in a bad conference. Congratulations, Tomey!), just look at what Stanford did to them a couple weeks ago. And Oregon State arguably has the worst QB's of any BCS team except Pitt.
That being said, ASU is where they belong as to their credit have taken care of business. It's where they'll likely end up as well, a fringe Top 25 team.
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Last edited by MaoTosiFanClub; September 24th, 2007 at 03:31 PM.
The point I was trying to make was that its not like ASU is trying to intentionally trying to make up an all patsy OOC schedule. ASU tries to go w/ an A,B,C format, but since schedules are made up so far in advance, its tough to do sometime (i.e. Colorado was supposed to be their "A" team the past two years, next year it will be Georgia).
I think you are right about ASU being right around #25 or so at the end of the year, I have no delusions of them going to the Rose Bowl or anything, I'm hoping for a Sun or Holiday Bowl appearance depending on the breaks.
That being said, ASU is where they belong as to their credit have taken care of business. It's where they'll likely end up as well, a fringe Top 25 team.
I agree with this assesment. They aren't as good as USC or Cal and the Oregon game in Oregon pushes the edge to them(although honestly it is not a good match up for ASU anyway). UCLA may have a slight edge being at home as well but I think ASU can pull that out.
I'll take 9-3 going in to a bowl game though...I could swallow 8-4 as well, its an improvement, baby steps with a new coach and all.
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