If you ever ask a coach about rankings during a media scrum in the middle of the week you’re likely to get a canned response about rankings not mattering. Putting weight into rankings in November and December seems pretty silly since you’re dealing with a small sample size and a litany of poor teams and buy games littered throughout every major team’s schedule.
The coach’s rehearsed response makes sense in that regard. Yet in this circumstance, where a team that has battled and outclassed every opponent in its schedule, the team should definitely be ranked.
The team I’m referring to, of course, is DePaul.