Look, the delineation between “top 25 wins” vs “non-top 25 wins” has always irked me. It’s nonsensical to arbitrarily cutoff what makes a good team vs not a good team. There is no reason to value beating the #21 team by 7 points way more than beating the #40 team by 21 or something. But anyway, stopping myself before I go way down that rabbit hole, there is no denying the cultural value that having one of these wins. And there’s no denying that “top 25 match-ups” simply mean more. Why? I don’t know, I didn’t decide.