Football Teams Better Than Boston College, According To Jeff Sagarin
by Brian Favat on Oct 25, 2011 10:30 AM EDT
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PrintYesterday I stumbled upon this depressing post over at the Northwestern blog Sippin' On Purple. Northwestern ranks 110th in the latest Jeff Sagarin rankings. But since NU beat BC in the season-opener, and the Eagles have a worst record than the 'Cats, the Eagles are even further down in the latest ratings.
Boston College ranks 137th in the latest Sagarin Ratings, ranked between I-AA Jacksonville State and I-AA Delaware. So, yeah.
Let's take a closer look.
CONFERENCES THAT BOSTON COLLEGE WOULD BE THE WORST TEAM IN
SEC: The SEC is home to the top two teams in the nation -- LSU and Alabama -- as well as Mississippi and Kentucky. But only Kentucky is ranked 100+ in the conference, coming in at 101. The Eagles would lose to the Wildcats by a touchdown on a neutral field, according to Sagarin's ratings.
Big 12: According to Sagarin, the Big 12 is the best conference in the land with eight of the conference's ten teams ranked in the top 26. The conference's two lowest ranked programs -- Iowa State (62) and Kansas (78) -- would beat BC by double digits.
Pac-12: The Eagles rank lower than every program in the Pac-12 and that includes fairly awful teams in 2-5 Oregon State, 3-4 Washington State and 1-7 Colorado. On the bright side, the Eagles would eek out a win over the Buffs at Alumni Stadium, but lose on a neutral field.
Big East: This one hurts. Just ... wow. The Eagles are currently worse than every program in a thoroughly mediocre Big East. Our football program has gone from 12 straight years of bowl game appearances to hypothetically going 0-8 in the Big East. Thanks, Spaz.
BCS CONFERENCE TEAMS BOSTON COLLEGE IS BETTER THAN
#141 Minnesota
#142 Indiana
That's it. That's the list.
And though the Big Ten's Minnesota and Indiana rank lower than BC, it's not by all that much. In fact, both programs would beat the Eagles if they traveled to Minneapolis or Bloomington, according to Sagarin.
CONFERENCES BOSTON COLLEGE WOULD BE THE BEST TEAM IN
Perhaps if we dip into the ranks of the I-AA, we could find a conference that Boston College could conceivable win this year. Let's dig a bit deeper here.
Mid Eastern Athletic Conference: Move over, 158th ranked Norfolk State. If the Eagles joined the MEAC, they would dominate a conference that includes Bethune-Cookman (175), SC State (183), NC A&T (188) and Florida A&M (192). If we can't beat one team from Tallahassee, you can rest easy that BC would beat the Rattlers by ~10 points.
Northeast: BC could move to the Northeast Conference and dominate local teams like Albany (177), Bryant (202) and Central Connecticut State (231). Because if you can't even beat the Duke Blue Devils, at least you could beat the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils!
Pioneer: This may be the oddest football conference in the country, with teams in Poughkeepsie and San Diego. The Pioneer League is also home to the worst program in Division I -- Valparaiso -- a team BC would beat by roughly 38 points ... on a neutral field, natch.
SWAC: Boston College is ranked higher than the SWAC's current leader in the clubhouse, Alabama State. But just barely. Boston College vs. Alabama State for the SWAC Conference Championship would be a dog fight, and would likely come down to a field goal.
In sum, there are just five ... count them ... five Division I conferences that the Eagles could conceivably win this year. And that's the good news ...
FCS CONFERENCES BOSTON COLLEGE WOULDN'T BE THE BEST TEAM IN
Big Sky: At least we'd finish in the top half of the league ... behind Montana State (84), Montana (117) and Eastern Washington (128). LOL @ Sacramento State (147)!
Big South: League leader Liberty (116) is ranked higher than Boston College, a program that lost at N.C. State 43-21 in week 1.
Colonial: Seventh! behind Maine, Towson, James Madison, New Hampshire, Old Dominion and Massachusetts, even though the Eagles beat the Minutemen by four touchdowns. At least we're better than Rhode Island and maintain some bragging rights in New England.
Great West: The Great West has just five football programs, yet the Eagles currently rank fourth in this conference behind Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, Southern Utah and South Dakota. Thankfully, BC barely beats out North Dakota at 139 ... and UC Davis at 154.
Missouri Valley: Sixth behind these college football powerhouses: North Dakota State (65), Northern Iowa (66), Indiana State (113), Illinois State (118) and Youngstown State (135).
Ohio Valley: 136th ranked Jacksonville State has a slight edge over Boston College in Sagarin's ratings and pitting the Eagles and Gamecocks against one another would make for an epic cock fight conference Championship game.
Patriot League: Third behind Lehigh and Holy Cross, who I just realized still plays college football.
Southern: Eighth, ranked behind every SoCon team with the exception of Elon and Western Carolina. Yeah.
Southland: We couldn't beat Northwestern, but we could beat Northwestern State. Problem is we couldn't also beat Sam Houston State, tops in the Southland.
Last, but certainly not least.
Ivy League: 3rd behind both Harvard and Brown. So much for being the reigning football kings of Massachusetts.
Commence jumping off the Tobin.
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Fire Spaz
This is pathetic…..
And if GDF refuses to get rid of Spaz because of some stability or loyalty bullcrap he needs to go too.
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It's a downward trajectory
Clean house, only option. This is not befitting our program.
by Eagle in Brighton on Oct 25, 2011 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions
The nightmare scenario here is that we go 1-11 and GDF lectures us with some preposterous Blauds-esque “it wasn’t as bad as it looked” and “Spaz is still the right man for the job” bullshit. If that happens, I’m almost afraid to consider the stance I’ll have to take because I’ve been watching this team loyally for 8 years now and I’d really rather not have to boycott them.
Soaring to Glory: On the #FireSpaz bandwagon before it was cool
by SoaringtoGlory on Oct 25, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Status Quo
In all seriousness: this has been running in the back of my mind each of the past few Saturdays (since the Duke game).
I think that literally would be catastrophic for the program.
by Eagle in Brighton on Oct 25, 2011 11:41 AM EDT up reply actions
Exactly. In that scenario, it will become obvious to everyone, both in AND out of BC circles, that Gene is more interested in having his guy on the sideline than winning. Sure, he’ll say keywords like “stability” and “improvement,” but it’ll all be lipstick-on-a-pig BS.
I really hope it doesn’t come to that. A 4th year of Spaz after a historically-bad season would be an absolute disaster before it even starts.
Soaring to Glory: On the #FireSpaz bandwagon before it was cool
by SoaringtoGlory on Oct 25, 2011 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions
a little birdie
with some good insight, told me yesterday that both GDF and Spaz are both gone. Guess we will find out how much the birdie knows soon enough.
I wouldn’t do that..would be cruel and unusual punishment at this point…there’s some truth to it..just don’t know if this becomes the BC version of the Auburn bag man that Danny Sheridan promised to give up or not..time will tell, although probably not until the end of the football season for Spaz and June for GDF.
you missed the biggest poll -- the BCS rankings -- BC is DEAD LAST
The BCS ranking is a composite of several different rankings and thus represents a consensus rank.
and the CONSENSUS IS THAT BC is the worst BCS AQ school in the COUNTRY. See CBS Sports BCS rankings 1-120
71 Maryland
73 Louisville
75 Kentucky
76 Pittsburgh
78 Arizona
80 Mississippi
86 Connecticut
87 Duke
91 Washington State
94 UCF
95 Oregon State
96 Northwestern
100 Colorado State
108 Minnesota
109 Indiana
111 Boston College
112 Kent State
113 UAB
114 UNLV
115 Tulane
116 Akron
117 Idaho
118 Florida Atlantic
119 New Mexico
BF: about your buddy Loretta8 from NU
he is an extreme BC hater — why would you link to a known BC hater?
“I’m the world’s biggest BC football hater”
by Loretta8 on Jun 27, 2011 12:38 PM EDT up reply actions
“BC is the poor man’s Notre Dame”
by Loretta8 on Sep 5, 2011 10:51 PM EDT up reply actions
“I’m from Boston and hate BC football”
by Loretta8 on Nov 27, 2009 12:34 PM EST reply actions
actively cheering for anti-Catholic remarks to go "green" [approved] is Catholic bashing, esp. when you are an editor
What’s this guy’s freaking deal Why is the potato-eating mickface getting his Lucky Charms panties all in a bunch? What in the hell does saying Sully and Murph have to do with religion? Take deep breath, eat some more ChristWafers® and chill out, man.
by Wandy_rod1 on Aug 31, 2011 3:28 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
christWafers??? Christwafers? Obviously a derogatory term for the holiest aspect of the Catholic Faith – the Eucharist.
An unfortunate and deeply repugnant comment.
by waterwater on Aug 31, 2011 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
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Sorry, you’re correct. Christwafers went out of business.
The new industry standard is Jeez-its:
by Glopknar on Aug 31, 2011 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Yessir, these are holy crackers.
by Glopknar on Aug 31, 2011 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions
why isnt this green yet?
by Loretta8 on Aug 31, 2011 11:09 PM EDT up reply actions
You’d be bitter to if your basketball program had never made the NCAA Tourny…
/resorts to basketball pot shots
//offs-self
by Eagle in Brighton on Oct 25, 2011 11:25 AM EDT up reply actions
haha
a better burn would have been to say that the highlight of my football teams season thus far is a win over boston college.
This
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Oct 25, 2011 11:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
The burn would have been better, too..
…if he had used the word “too” correctly.
Nerdwestern
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Oct 25, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Are women’s lacrosse titles more or less prestigious than men’s hockey titles?
/ducks
Editor, BC Interruption
by Brian Favat on Oct 25, 2011 11:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
SAD
Sorry guys, depressed about Uconn’s fate in the BE, but man this is just Sad. If you told me that Yale had a better team than UCONN, I would be pissed. You need to fire SPAZ. Is he the dude from Meatballs?
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