For starters, a certain defending champion (Brock) which is in town this weekend to play Carleton and uOttawa ranks 32nd of 43 teams, despite being 8-0 vs. Canadian competition.
Rob — glory be for having a U of Waterloo man on the blog — has crunched the numbers to come up with the first RPI of the season. The OUA East's top four teams — No. 1 Carleton, No. 8 Ottawa, No. 15 Queen's and No. 16 Toronto — collectively come out ahead of the West's best four.
The Ravens' and Gee-Gees' respective RPIs are commensurate (triple-word score!) with their rankings in the official CIS coaches' poll, which shows the coaches are doing a pretty good job, on balance. Brock, though, snuck in No. 10 — as noted over at cisblog.ca, you cannot not rank the country's lone unbeaten team, so what are you going to do? —
Again, no one should be married to a stat, but it's the grist for some debate ... Queen's being No. 15 despite a sub-.500 record should buoy hopes that coach Rob Smart is on the right track by playing a tough early-season schedule by lining up his young Golden Gaels team vs. McGill, Toronto, Waterloo and Western.
The Ravens' and Gee-Gees' respective RPIs are commensurate (triple-word score!) with their rankings in the official CIS coaches' poll, which shows the coaches are doing a pretty good job, on balance. Brock, though, snuck in No. 10 — as noted over at cisblog.ca, you cannot not rank the country's lone unbeaten team, so what are you going to do? —
Again, no one should be married to a stat, but it's the grist for some debate ... Queen's being No. 15 despite a sub-.500 record should buoy hopes that coach Rob Smart is on the right track by playing a tough early-season schedule by lining up his young Golden Gaels team vs. McGill, Toronto, Waterloo and Western.
- Carleton (9-1) .610
- UBC (10-1) .604
- Windsor (7-2) .604
- UVic (8-3) .583
- StFX (9-2) .576
- Concordia (5-1) .565
- McGill (10-3) .564
- Ottawa (10-2) .547
- Calgary (10-1) .545
- Dalhousie (9-3) .543
- Cape Breton (6-2) .538
- Western (5-5) .536
- Simon Fraser (5-3) .532
- Trinity Western (4-4) .532
- Queen's (4-7) .528
- Toronto (6-5) .525
- Laval (2-6) .523
- Saskatchewan (4-6) .515
- McMaster (4-4) .504
- Waterloo (8-3) .502
- Laurier (5-6) .500
- UQAM (3-6) .500
- Lakehead (1-7) .498
- Alberta (3-6) .486
- Lethbridge (4-10) .482
- Ryerson (4-6) .480
- Guelph (5-3) .480
- UPEI (3-6) .475
- Bishop's (3-7) .472
- Regina (3-4) .470
- Brandon (2-4) .468
- Brock (8-0) .466
- Fraser Valley (5-4) .457
- Saint Mary's (4-5) .442
- York (3-8) .433
- Memorial (2-8) .427
- Laurentian (0-9) .416
- Thompson Rivers (3-6)
- RMC (0-9) .407
- Acadia (3-5) .407
- Manitoba (4-6) .405
- UNB (0-8) .398
- Winnipeg (2-8) .386
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Brock's 8-0 record was fashioned against competition that ranged from mediocre to feeble.
They played the likes of Laurentian, Winnipeg and Manitoba. They played RMC...twice. The best team they beat was Queen's and they have been hugely disappointing.
Last night, Ottawa U let the air out of the Badger's balloon with a 20 point win.
Tonight, Brock has to deal with the Ravens, from whom they borrowed the CIS championship.
Tonight, Carleton will politely ask Brock top hand it back.
No kidding on Brock. Before last night's games, they had faced opponents with a measly .151 winning percentage. (The next-lowest was almost 200 points higher.) Carleton should handle them tonight, with or without politeness.
Also, Queen's has had the third-toughest schedule in the country to this point, as Neate alluded to. That's why they're 15th with just a 4-7 record.
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