With yesterday’s win over Iowa State in the books, your Baylor Bears are now ranked for the first time this season in both major polls, at #21 and #24 in the AP and Coaches’ Polls, respectively. While I have no major qualms about Baylor’s position in either poll, others being ranked where they are seem patently absurd. Clemson, for example, having lost 2 games already this season and looked absolutely terrible on offense, and even being #25 is too high. You could make a much better argument for Texas (among others) in that spot than Clemson, and this is a direct function of what I call “rankings inertia,” which is the tendency to take the prior week’s rankings, adjust it up or down based on how things go, and then resubmit.
#21 Baylor at #19 Oklahoma State Opens at Cowboys -4
