this sounds like the same crap people say about a team after we beat them. and yes, i say we because i've never heard it said about ANY other team.
it seems that when we beat someone, and they fall in the polls, people will look at their place in the polls at that time, NOT when we played them weeks later they'll say, "well yeah, ALABAMA beat them, but they're only ranked "xx"." it's like their ranking at the time we played them didn't matter, only where they're ranked at the end of the year. so we could be ranked #1, and play the #2, #3 , #4, and #5 teams in succession to start the season, beat them all handily and watch them drop out of the top 20 by season's end, and someone would say we didn't play anybody.
and this, this crap, sounds suspiciously like that.
what happens if the most of the teams we play are ranked in the top 20 or top 15 when we play them? will it matter then? or will they say, "well, at the beginning of the season they weren't even ranked."