Massey rating 2013

[NDSU1980]

Well, Massey has us going 10-1, only loss at Kansas State. After that, the next closest game is SDSU, Bison by 7. Looks like everyone knows the the Herd will Thunder again.

http://www.masseyratings.com/team.php?t=5545&s=199231

[tmcats]

wow, you guys don't play the fightin' flickertails?

[MNLonghorn10]

Well, Massey has us going 10-1, only loss at Kansas State. After that, the next closest game is SDSU, Bison by 7. Looks like everyone knows the the Herd will Thunder again.

http://www.masseyratings.com/team.php?t=5545&s=199231

You know those rating systems are flawed. They don't take in account houses that have, uh, more than two television sets and other - other things of that nature.

[HerdBot]

wow, you guys don't play the fightin' flickertails?

after reading that comment it's quite obvious you are from the area and probably a troll. An outsider would not pick up on that.

[Hammerhead]

We used to play the flickertails (later known as the Fighting Sioux and who now have no nickname), but not in recent years.

NDSU will be a much harder game than Mass. or ULL. Those other teams were down around 200 in the Sagarin ratings last year.

Edit. I thought a 10% chance of winning according to Massey was good until I saw they gave ULL at 8% chance.

wow, you guys don't play the fightin' flickertails?

[SDbison]

No way Kansas State is 8th best DI team (12th for D, 12th for O) after losing what they did on defense and their all star QB. I see the Bison are ranked 57th (26th on D, 84th on O). Hopefully with everyone coming back for NDSU they are more like 40th and with Kansas State losing what they did more like 30th.

[td577]

No way Kansas State is 8th best DI team (12th for D, 12th for O) after losing what they did on defense and their all star QB. I see the Bison are ranked 57th (26th on D, 84th on O). Hopefully with everyone coming back for NDSU they are more like 40th and with Kansas State losing what they did more like 30th.

I was thinking the same thing. NDSU should be at least 10 spots higher and ksu at least 15 spots lower. If you said 40-45 for the Bison and 25-30 for ksu, I would think their system is pretty tight. Considering NDSU was 35 on the last Sagarin ranking and KSU was 8 while one team is pretty much intact, while the other is filling a lot of holes. I think if you included variables like graduating players these two teams are really not that far apart. It would not be a App State/Michigan type upset if the Bison were to win. It would be slightly bigger than a Baylor over ksu upset.

[tjbison]

You know those rating systems are flawed. They don't take in account houses that have, uh, more than two television sets and other - other things of that nature.

this is totally true.........

[tjbison]

anyone else think the 99% chance of beating Ferris St and the 100% chance of beating DSU should be flopped? maybe not but then again it's a 95% chance we beat USD so what's that say for them

[gumby013]

I'm finishing up the last touches on my ranking system. I've run last year's games through it. Based on those we are 99.44% to win at home vs DSU. 99.9917% at home vs Ferris.