Final AP football poll

[Bandwagon King]

We didn't play and beat anybody worth a ____ in the eyes of the pollsters. Lucky to be 16. Beat a ____ty Texas team and we finish 6-8.

And that is the kind of slap in the face that UL should not put up with without publicly humiliating as many pollsters as possible. That is lsuBR mentality & to accept that mentality is tantamount to saying that is the way it should be so let's all go along with taking crumbs off the master's table while they rob us blind.

[ZoomZoom]

And now people can quit laughing at UCF for declaring themselves national champions. They recognized the sham that is the FBS national championship.

Darn straight. If not for Texas, 14-0…only undefeated team…some minor unheard of poll would of had us number 1. Ring the bell, hang the banner just like UCF.

Could be the Blue Bunny IceCream poll, wouldn’t care.

[Turbine]

We didn't play and beat anybody worth a ____ in the eyes of the pollsters. Lucky to be 16. Beat a ____ty Texas team and we finish 6-8.

Does not matter!

If the Packers played UL's schedule and went 14-0 and beat nobody (as you claim) they would still be the Packers.

[babysitter]

Does not matter!

If the Packers played UL's schedule and went 14-0 and beat nobody (as you claim) they would still be the Packers.

How the hell do you figure that doesn’t matter. Seriously ? Who do we beat this season ? Liberty on the road ? You act like ugly wins against Nichols and ULM never happened. I guarantee you it matters.

[Turbine]

How the hell do you figure that doesn’t matter. Seriously ? Who do we beat this season ? Liberty on the road ? You act like ugly wins against Nichols and ULM never happened. I guarantee you it matters.

The wins you are stuck on don't change how good this team is.

It certainly doesn't take away from how good this team is.

[Boomer]

What good would it do to become the 13th place team in the big 12? Seriously, not that anyone is looking at UL & going, oh snap there is a school that deserves to be in a big boy conference. This university doesn't have the balls to stand up for themselves even against the traitors from next door infiltrating the administration. How will they ever achieve anything of a realistic nature when they can't/won't do that?

….. If I am not mistaken, it would make us a P-5! Is that correct?

[IberiaCajun]

….. If I am not mistaken, it would make us a P-5! Is that correct?

You are correct!

[CajunEXPRESS]

How the hell do you figure that doesn’t matter. Seriously ? Who do we beat this season ? Liberty on the road ? You act like ugly wins against Nichols and ULM never happened. I guarantee you it matters.

Those weak teams were already baked into the pole going into the NOLA Bowl. In Wakes case they beat a team weaker than MU, yet get rewarded with a five spot jump.

You can’t have it both ways.
Rewarding losses to good teams and additional rewards for beating a bad team. Yeah they did that and others rewarded for losing as well. Guess the overall point is P5 getting benefits win or lose see

[Bandwagon King]

Those weak teams were already baked into the pole going into the NOLA Bowl. In Wakes case they beat a team weaker than MU, yet get rewarded with a five spot jump.

You can’t have it both ways.
Rewarding losses to good teams and additional rewards for beating a bad team. Yeah they did that and others rewarded for losing as well. Guess the overall point is P5 getting benefits win or lose see

And if that doesn't make your blood boil, then you just don't have a pulse.

[Bandwagon King]

How the hell do you figure that doesn’t matter. Seriously ? Who do we beat this season ? Liberty on the road ? You act like ugly wins against Nichols and ULM never happened. I guarantee you it matters.

Did the pollsters hold Alabama's ugly wins against mediocre teams like lsuBR against them? HOLD EVERYONE TO THE SAME FREAKING STANDARD, or don't have a standard. That is what college football looks like to me now. There is no standard of excellence except what money can buy. Screw this crap.

[Cajun90]

[HoustonCajun]

Did the pollsters hold Alabama's ugly wins against mediocre teams like lsuBR against them? HOLD EVERYONE TO THE SAME FREAKING STANDARD, or don't have a standard. That is what college football looks like to me now. There is no standard of excellence except what money can buy. Screw this crap.

Here is how I think the pollsters look at UL's record. There are 5 P5 conferences and 5 G5 conferences. UL plays in the Sun Belt, arguably the 3rd best G5 conference, but only 8th out of 10 FBS conferences. The SBC had 7 teams with losing records. UL's schedule had 8 teams with losing records, including Texas. UL barely beat a 6-5 FCS school and struggled against some teams with losing records. But, we still won and went 13-1. A great accomplishment, but not against great competition.

UL's problem remains that we are in the SBC and we play horrible OOC schedules, except for only 1 game each year. Until we upgrade our OOC scheduling, the SBC becomes a better conference, or we get into a better conference, we have likely hit our ceiling in the polls. We will not out-rank P5 schools and will not achieve what Cincy did unless and until we improve our competition. Despite all of that, we managed to finish in the Top 20 two years in a row in major polls. Quite an achievement.

Now look at the preseason 2022 poll. That 2 year achievement did nothing for us. All 25 teams are P5 schools with exception of Cincy and Houston in the 20-25 ranking and they just got accepted to a P5 conference. Everything is biased to P5 schools and G5 schools are just becoming feeder schools for P5 conferences with the transfer portal. UL needs to somehow parlay its R1 academic ranking and 2 year Top 20 ranking into a better conference and/or better scheduling if it wants to remain at that level with the pollsters, assuming it continues to win.