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Post by The Cats on Sept 17, 2018 9:45:19 GMT -5
Post this week's power rankings in this thread.  Here are this week's rankings after three weeks of play (last week's ranking in parenthesis): 1. (2) Wofford (2-1, 2-0 SoCon) Next: Bye 2. (5) Mercer (2-1, 1-0 SoCon) Next: The Citadel 3. (1) Samford (1-2, 0-1 SoCon) Next: at Chattanooga 4. (4) Western Carolina (2-0, 0-0 SoCon) Next: VMI 5. (3) Chattanooga (3-0, 1-0 SoCon) Next: Samford 6. (6) Furman (0-2, 0-0 SoCon) Next: at ETSU 7. (7) The Citadel (0-2, 0-2 SoCon) Next: at Mercer 8. (8) ETSU (2-1, 1-0 SoCon) Next: Furman 9. (9) VMI (0-3, 0-2 SoCon) Next: at Western Carolina catamountsportsblog.blogspot.com/2018/09/2018-socon-football-power-rankings_17.html |
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Post by The Cats on Sept 17, 2018 11:08:32 GMT -5
SoCon John's power rankings.......
POWER RANKINGS FOLLOWING WEEK 3 ACTION:- Chattanooga (3–0, 1–0 SoCon) — Next week vs. Samford (7 p.m. EST)
- Wofford (2–1, 2–0 SoCon) — Next week BYE
- Mercer (2–1, 1–0 SoCon) — Next vs The Citadel (4 p.m. EST)
- Western Carolina (2–0, 0–0 SoCon) — Next vs. VMI (3:30 p.m. EST)
- Samford (1–2, 0–1 SoCon) — Next at Chattanooga (7 p.m. EST)
- The Citadel (0–2, 0–2 SoCon) — Next at Mercer (4 p.m. EST)
- East Tennessee State (2–1, 1–0 SoCon)— Next vs. Furman(7:30 p.m. EST)
- Furman (0–2, 0–0 SoCon) — at ETSU (7:30 EST)
- VMI (0–3, 0–2 SoCon) — at Western Carolina (3:30 p.m. EST)
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Post by The Cats on Sept 17, 2018 20:31:49 GMT -5
Southernpigskins Power Poll
For the Week Beginning September 16 2018
1. Wofford
Record: 2-1 (2-0)
Next Opponent: BYE
2. Mercer
Record: 2-1 (1-0)
Next Opponent: The Citadel
3. Chattanooga
Record: 3-0 (1-0)
Next Opponent: Samford
4. Western Carolina
Record: 2-0
Next Opponent: VMI
5. East Tennessee State
Record: 2-1 (0-1)
Next Opponent: Furman
6. Samford
Record: 1-2 (0-1)
Next Opponent: at Chattanooga
7. Furman
Record: 0-2
Next Opponent: at ETSU
8. The Citadel
Record: 0-2 (0-2)
Next Opponent: at Mercer
9. Virginia Military Institute
Record: 0-3 (0-2)
Next Opponent: at Western Carolina
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Post by The Cats on Sept 17, 2018 20:36:38 GMT -5
Which ranking do you think hits the nail on the head? or are they all wrong?
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Post by wcatradio75 on Sept 17, 2018 21:23:29 GMT -5
Which ranking do you think hits the nail on the head? or are they all wrong? To me - Purple & Gold is the closest. Not sure about Mercer, and particularly unsure about UTC. As I mentioned yesterday, the Mocs 3 opponents have yet to win a single game. |
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Post by wcugrad95 on Sept 17, 2018 22:28:41 GMT -5
Purple & Gold - but I'd still put Chatty ahead of WCU right now. They have 3 wins that are all FCS, where we only have 2 and one of those was a come-from-behind win over a D2 school. If you think they haven't played anybody to date, have you looked at where we fit on the strength of schedule? So you can't knock them and not also knock us. Everything else is kind of how I had it.
Oddly, Samford is the hard one for me to place. Their showing against FSU is quickly losing some luster given what we are seeing out of Tallahassee and the Noles, and they are 1-2. If they crush the Mocs this weekend they show last week is their annual poor game (even though I thought Mercer just flat out beat them). If they lose, they would be 1-3 and headed in the opposite direction from Chattanooga.
With the weird week we had and games being canceled, it is still too early to really tell. Not sure what we will really know about WCU after this week, but I think we will learn some things about Samford/Chat and Citadel/Mercer that helps with the rankings.
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Post by tenNesseeCat on Sept 18, 2018 7:28:53 GMT -5
I'd say purple and gold, but it's still early to really know. You could flip WCU and UTC, as well as Furman and The Citadel. Not really sure what john is seeing in UTC. They are unbeaten, but #1?
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Post by purplecat on Sept 18, 2018 11:26:11 GMT -5
I like the purple and gold as well, but as far as WCU & Chattanooga, neither has been tested, so it's a toss-up. Chattanooga will be tested this week, hopefully, WCU will not be.
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Post by SoCon John on Sept 28, 2018 18:45:39 GMT -5
My rankings...Have watched Chattanooga play...Basically what it comes down to me between Wofford and Chattanooga is the fact that Chattanooga and Wofford both beat The Citadel in close games...Difference is that Chattanooga did it on the road...Chattanooga also beat the preseason favorites, Samford last week
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Post by SoCon John on Sept 28, 2018 18:47:17 GMT -5
But I still think the jury is still out on a majority of the league...Not sure what to make of it other than Wofford, Chattanooga, The Citadel, Mercer and Western all seem solid teams right now...This week will tell us a lot.
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