Thatās crazy and yet when the Caneās had the ball in the 4th I couldnāt shake the feeling that Beck was going to cost them the game. The Miami gameplan was to minimize his impact not put a spotlight on in.
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Basically our season we just had with Morris ā¦ eerieā¦
Niceā¦ #16 in the final AP poll
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Grok:
The University of Virginia (Virginia Cavaliers) football team has finished in the final AP Poll several times, but their highest placements are as follows, based on historical records from sources like College Poll Archive, Sports-Reference.com, and Wikipedia.The highest final AP Poll finish is No. 13 in 1951 (8-1 record).The next highest are:
- No. 15 in 1994 (9-3 record).
- No. 16 in 1995 (9-4 record).
Other notable final AP Poll finishes (in chronological order) include:
- No. 20 in 1984 (8-2-2 record).
- No. 18 in 1989 (10-3 record).
- No. 23 in 1990 (8-4 record; note: they reached No. 1 during the season but finished lower).
- No. 18 in 1998 (9-3 record).
- No. 23 in 2004 (8-4 record).
- No. 16 in 2025 (11-3 record; recent season, marking a return to the final poll after a long gap).
Virginia has never finished higher than No. 13 in the final AP Poll across their history. They have 9 total final AP Poll appearances (ranked in the top 25 at seasonās end), with the 1951 ranking standing as their best.
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From TA
With Texas Tech finishing in the top 10 for the first time, the only remaining Power 4 teams that have never been ranked in the top 10 of the final AP poll are Vanderbilt, Rutgers, NC State, Wake Forest and Virginia.
No. 16 Virginia had its best finish since 2004 while also snapping the second-longest streak among P4 schools of unranked finishes. Purdue hasnāt finished a season ranked since 2003.
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Duke suing Mensah.
GT lands the Mendoza brother.
Spicy.
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Good for the NCAA.
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Ah, exactly where I thought as we passed everyone we were probably going to pass, and nothing surprising happened. We almost passed Vandy and Iowa almost caught us, but not quite.
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I know weāre mostly wrapped up, but are there any lingering targets out there?
Im also excited to see if guys try the Xavier Lucas move and just drop out of their current school after spring semester and try to just re-enroll at a new school to play. Did the new portal rule address the āthe portal is fake actuallyā loophole at all?
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@kendall is still VIP hereā¦ just doesnāt post much.
Just a random observation from a very casual college football fan (I donāt keep up with this stuff beyond a sometimes read of this thread). During the CFP game, the announcers - who were generally bad - said something interesting about how Cignetti had assembled Indiana.
That in addition to the kids he brought from JMU, he had signed a lot of players who were good on bad/mid-level teams as his transfer adds. That the roster was not stocked with HS 4 and 5 stars the way that Miamiās was [and probably most of the rest of the final four/eight teams (would be interesting to see a comparison if anyone has the skills to pull something like that together)].
That made me think about a criticism I read somewhere on this thread by somebody that UVa had signed a lot of players off of bad teams, which made think - maybe thatās deliberate.
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Age adjustment needed - 4th year 3 star likely superior to 2nd year 5 star.
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Yea these are transfer ratings not high school ratings. Iirc Indiana had a top ten transfer class last year
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Several things at work with Indiana and their recruiting from ābad teams.ā Unlike basketball its very possible to have a good player on a bad team. Think Kam for the Hoos for his first 2 years. With the portal if Iām a good player who got locked into a bad team of course Iām going to jump ship at the first chance to play big time ball. Itās also a lot more common for the HS grading to be flat out wrong in football and that 2 is actually a 3 and so it goes.
The other thing like @htraylor mentioned is age. I think this is the biggest thing that Indiana capitalized on. Iām not sure if they were the oldest team but they are in the top 5 oldest teams in the country. That 2star they took from CUSA has played 24 or 36 games by the time he gets to Indy. Heās a seasoned vet and that 2 star comp just doesnāt stack up. Heās learned his craft on the job and has experienced things that even a 4 or 5 start recruit hasnāt.
Indiana plays a simple disciplined style of football and often times discipline comes with experience.
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We basically are Indiana 1-2 tiers down - playing the same game strategically. They nailed it.
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I kinda like taking good players from bad teamsā¦
If a guy is leaving Kirby Smart, for reasons other than an obvious playing time situation, Iām kind of suspicious! I know he can coach and evaluate talent, why is he letting this guy go??
I have less of that concern if youāre taking them from a team who just went 2-10 lol.
And like you said, not their fault a lot of times. Thereās really only 1 position that can elevate a team, and oftentimes they canāt even overcome coaching.
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Other than our conference (which is a big one to be fair) I donāt know why we have to accept being tiers down from them! We have money! Our program has more history than theirs! Way better recruiting territory! A quarter of their starters are no-stars from Virginia!
But also their coordinators are really really good and we employ Des Kitchings.