Bracketology: Cougs sitting firmly on the 6 line

Table of Contents

• Continuing their rise

• Bracket Matrix

• Bracketometry

• Bart Torvik

• Footnotes

Continuing their rise

As fans, it’s easy to fixate on the sour taste from Saturday’s loss to Arizona State. We tend to be prisoners of the moment, and a bad moment can blot out the light from a good moment — like, for example, Thursday’s monumental win over Arizona in Tucson.

Folks who are not prisoners of the moment are the people who spend way too much time poring over resumés to bring us bracketology updates. They look at teams holistically, every time. And when they look at WSU, what they see (as we figured they would) is a team that is in better shape today than it was a week ago, despite the loss to the Sun Devils.

That’s because these bracketology folks have studied the committee that will do the actual selecting, and one thing we know about the committee is that they love big wins. They love them way more than they hate bad losses. And beating Arizona for a second time gives us not just another Quad 1 win, but Quad “1A” win — an informal measure of the best wins.

You can find the Cougs’ “Nitty Gritty” sheet that the selection committee looks at here if you want to peruse their resume yourself. I’ll point out that Boise State becomes a Quad 1A win for us if the Broncos get into the top 25 of NET.

With that, let’s check in and see how the Cougs’ seeding is looking. Two of the sources we’ll look at are familiar — the Bracket Matrix and barttorvik.com. The third will be a new addition. They’re all pretty much in agreement, but interesting in their own ways.