Quote Originally Posted by Tater View Post
Jesus christ, it's like you saw the sign, said nope i'm not gonna read it, and said the stupid line anyway.

At least smoot tried to reason against it. So counterpoint. Maybe Texsa, Tenn, Ark, UF, OM, Aggy, Mizz are all worse than last year as well. If ASU can get worse so can these guys. Texsa already showed it. Mizz lost their QB.

But I'm saying if you think we can beat a team perceived as top 12, then you think we could beat a team perceived as top 20. If you think we can win this weekend, then you think any game up to 12th rank is in play. Are we gonna win 10? no. But There are 10 winnable games on the schedule if ASU is winnable. So the range of winnable games if we win this weekend goes from 3-6 to 6-10.
And I disagree with you. Obviously any game can technically be winnable. But the chances of us winning all our winnable games is essentially 0. And the likelihood of us winning more than 6 is pretty darn close to 0, unless several teams on our schedule are way worse than anyone thinks.

You are assuming ASU is where they should be ranked. If they end up being worse, it does not mean all the teams ranked below them are similarly worse. It just means they are.

We do not know everything about this team. But we know enough to know we are not winning more than, say, 7 in an absolute miracle year. And the chances of winning more than 5 are extremely low.