Week 2 AP Rankings- Keep the Chip

[MAD Doctor]

One freaking vote in the AP poll. The good news: Louisiana and Coastal are on the schedule.
Keep the chip.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings

[BambooRdApp]

Watching CBS Sports network.....getting zero love on predictions for the Miami game...they will all be eating crow. Go App. St.

[yosef69]

We beat a bottom 20 (last season) team by 14. We don’t deserve votes. Ethan knows what we are capable of but others don’t.

[Rekdiver]

There are a lot of good teams getting votes. I can’t argue but with a couple.

[Stonewall]

Win Saturday and see what happens.

[huskie3]

15 votes in coaches poll.

[bigdaddyg]

Do you guys believe that we could have run up the score a little more against ECU or was the outcome about right? We never seem to go for style points when possible.

[Rekdiver]

Miami forced Bama to go to the air…147 yards rushing for Bama. Shut down outside zone run. We will need quick passes and a lot of plays that take an overaggressive U line the wrong way!

[Kafarmer]

Coach admitted the INT was on him. He overruled the called play to “go for the jugular”

[Seattleapp]

Coastal moving up 6 spots seems funny

[McLeansvilleAppFan]

Ethan has a nice article in the Greensboro paper and likely all the sister papers in the state explaining his ballot. I think it will be a regular feature throughout the season.

[hapapp]

Our win over ECU garnered little national attention. My guess, outside of the interested parties few were watching. Given the opponent, it was a big win for us but a ho-hum otherwise.

[Yosef84]

I definitely think we called off the dogs in the 4th quarter. We absolutely could have scored at least one more TD and probably 2 if we had kept pushing. ECU also wouldn't have gotten their 2nd TD if we hadn't taken off the pressure. He had plenty of time to throw in the 4th because we dropped back into coverage and I thin (not positive) that we were rotating a good bit in the 4th. That's the right call. No need to run it up against an in-state program that is rebuilding. It's the first game of the season and we got a great win.

Let's move on and play our A game at Miami. The poll will take care of itself.

[NavyApp]

Couple of thoughts: 1) running up the score against ECU on a Thursday night while we are unranked would have garnered us exactly ZERO more votes than we got. 2) leaving the starters in on D and continuing to throw the ball sounds good and all but it also increases the likelihood of long term injuries in a game that had already been decided.

Now had we been ranked and this was a little bit deeper into the season I would like for us to push the issue about, but week 1 is week 1. We would have had to win 100-0 to get any love from the national media. This is the week for us to make noise; so coming in healthy and not having shown the whole playbook is a plus.

[JMappfan5]

Coaches don't play for Polls they play for wins. We played a lot of kids in the 4th Q. That "live game" experience may pay off down the road. Lessons to be learned & mistakes to be corrected. We dominated the game and the 14 point win felt like 30. BEAT THE U!!!

[yosef69]

I will say that their fans are literally the dumbest I’ve ever seen. They are so ignorant but still speak as though it’s facts.

This is one p5 I would really like to take down.

[AtlAppMan]

Coaches don't play for Polls they play for wins. We played a lot of kids in the 4th Q. That "live game" experience may pay off down the road. Lessons to be learned & mistakes to be corrected. We dominated the game and the 14 point win felt like 30. BEAT THE U!!!

As much as I would have liked more separation in the score, I think you are right about the better value for us at this point is to get more live reps throughout the depth chart. I agree with others that even two more TD separation probably would not have moved the meter in the national view.

[moonshine]

Some voters should lose their "right to vote" as there is no rational explanation for how some voted. I have no problem with App getting a single vote but it is an issue when App has the same amount of votes as Arizona who is on a 13 game losing streak and has not registered a W since 2019. Obviously the voter meant the Sun Devils but still, voting is not that difficult.

The USCar guy is a clown. Under no circumstance should Wisconsin be ahead of Penn St. after the Nittany Lions beat the Badgers. To top it off, Wisconsin was ranked 12th and he put them at 10th this week. Same for UNC ahead of VT which was done by multiple voters. I understand once there is a "body of work" to go off of but not after week 1. If you lose in week 1, you should not be ahead of the team that just beat you.

CCU got a nice, albeit undeserved, bump up in the polls after mauling el Cid but good for the Chants and the SBC. As a conference, we need to keep teams in the top 25. There doesn't appear to be a lot of opportunity for App to creep in to the top 25 after this weekend, even with a win against the U as there are only 2 top 25 match-ups this week: #12 Oregon v #3 tOSU and #10 Iowa v #9 Iowa St. It's doubtful a loss by any of the 4 will result in them dropping from the top 25.

Removing #22 Miami, I don't see anyone ranked #17 - #25 losing sans maybe #21 Utah to BYU but if that happens, BYU would likely replace them in the poll. With that said, if App were to win this weekend, fans should not feel slighted next week if App isn't ranked without some wild upsets. I'd prefer App continue flying under the radar for a couple of more weeks.

We should all be Pirate and Panthers fans this weekend as they take on USCar/UNC-ch respectively. The SBC needs CCU to keep putting Rock Chalk Jayhawk in their place, GS needs to find their footing against FAU and big time game for the conference is stAte v Memphis Saturday night.

[t4pizza]

I don't think we deserve a ranking at this point in the season and probably won't until we continue to win and beat Marshall, Louisiana and Coastal. After that we would be 6-1 at worst and perhaps 7-0 with some good wins on the resume. That belief is based on the fact that those 3 teams should all win their games from now until they play us.

[AppStFan1]

Some voters should lose their "right to vote" as there is no rational explanation for how some voted. I have no problem with App getting a single vote but it is an issue when App has the same amount of votes as Arizona who is on a 13 game losing streak and has not registered a W since 2019. Obviously the voter meant the Sun Devils but still, voting is not that difficult.

The USCar guy is a clown. Under no circumstance should Wisconsin be ahead of Penn St. after the Nittany Lions beat the Badgers. To top it off, Wisconsin was ranked 12th and he put them at 10th this week. Same for UNC ahead of VT which was done by multiple voters. I understand once there is a "body of work" to go off of but not after week 1. If you lose in week 1, you should not be ahead of the team that just beat you.

CCU got a nice, albeit undeserved, bump up in the polls after mauling el Cid but good for the Chants and the SBC. As a conference, we need to keep teams in the top 25. There doesn't appear to be a lot of opportunity for App to creep in to the top 25 after this weekend, even with a win against the U as there are only 2 top 25 match-ups this week: #12 Oregon v #3 tOSU and #10 Iowa v #9 Iowa St. It's doubtful a loss by any of the 4 will result in them dropping from the top 25.

Removing #22 Miami, I don't see anyone ranked #17 - #25 losing sans maybe #21 Utah to BYU but if that happens, BYU would likely replace them in the poll. With that said, if App were to win this weekend, fans should not feel slighted next week if App isn't ranked without some wild upsets. I'd prefer App continue flying under the radar for a couple of more weeks.

We should all be Pirate and Panthers fans this weekend as they take on USCar/UNC-ch respectively. The SBC needs CCU to keep putting Rock Chalk Jayhawk in their place, GS needs to find their footing against FAU and big time game for the conference is stAte v Memphis Saturday night.

I'm with you on all of this and honestly I don't think we deserve any votes unless we beat Miami. I expect to lose by 14-20 this weekend to Miami but wins over Marshall, ULL, and CCU (assuming they keep winning) will help us get in there closer to when it matters. Nobody remembers who was ranked in September. I just hope the league does well in OOC play and ECU, Miami, and Marshall do well in their leagues to give those games more credibility for us.

I'm definitely pulling for ECU to beat South Carolina. I hope they win by 14+ so it is not in doubt.