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17th in FPI and 21st in SP+. Three of their four losses are against consensus Top 4 teams and all five are against teams in my Top 11. Meanwhile, they have very few wins that would be considered as "quality" by P5 standards but actually stack up favorably with teams like App State and Boise. There's an argument to be made that the top G5 teams would be 7-5 against A&M's schedule and that A&M could have gone 10-2 or 11-1 against theirs. In fact, their Strength of Records (a resume evaluator) are very similar. 11-1 Memphis, 10-2 Cincinnati, 11-1 Boise, 11-1 App State, and 9-2 Navy fill in the 18-22 spots while A&M's is a robust 23. 10-2 SMU at 25th and 10-2 Air Force at 26th actually trail A&M, as does 10-2 Louisiana at 30th. While my ballot is not resume-based, and therefore I normally don't reference Strength of Record or other resume rankings, it's a useful illustration of how difficult it can be to compare these teams based on wildly different schedules and results. |