Undefeated season?

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Ruppsrevenge has been a UL troll on here for years now

What's even better, is that he is a dude that has a tramp stamp on his back.

Let that sink in.

 

[catfreek]

Jesus Christ

I'll take a bet from those of you who are crucifying the OP. If you're so sure it's never gonna happen, let's make it interesting.

Should be a lot higher but I'll take the bet for 12-1 odds.

Any takers?

 

[AF Cat]

Not sure if it would be 40-0 or not, but we just beat a pretty damn good team handily. We have some challenges ahead of us, but I think Cal may have been a year off on the undefeated train last year.

Watch out for Vandy at Vandy...our best chance to lose a game...they're gonna be pretty good.

 

[NCukcat62]

I think we lose 3 like some posters have said. At Vanderbilt, lsu and Kansas. Kansas can have that one too HA

 

[FiveStarCat]

While it's ridiculous to talk about an undefeated season this early, I do find it funny that rivals still like to throw 40-0 in our faces, as if we weren't just on the brink of doing it. Anyone who says it's impossible hasn't been paying attention.

 

[John Henry]

Last year we blew out some great teams in the early season. Where is our NCAA Championship trophy? Let's get real. It is a long season our eyes should be winning the final game not 40-0

 

[kybassfan]

I posted this on that abomination of a thread that Maverick started. To summarize, Undefeated? Not bloody likely even for an extremely dominant team.

Actually, there is a way to put this to bed computationally. As you point out, games are independent events for the most part. There's a little theorem that says P(A^B) = P(A)P(B). Simply put, chance of heads is 50%. Chance of heads on both of two flips is .5 * .5 = 25%. These are elementary concepts for probability and statistics.

If the probability of KY winning any given game is 90% (way high, I know), then the chance of winning 37 in a row is .9^37 assuming 37 games is around 1.4% Now assume that you have a 90% chance in 35 of those games and a 50% chance in 2. Then you have .9^35*.5^2 which gives us about .6% chance.

Now there is a little hocus pocus going on under the table, but those are decent estimates given the assumptions.

Mav is telling us we can flip a coin this year and get it to land on its edge. Predicting 40 - 0 even for an exceedingly dominate team is laughable. Its a Forest Gump move. Maverick, I'd stick to shrimpin if I were you.

Run Forest, Run!