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1. Ohio State (61 first-place votes) 2. TCU 3. Alabama 4. Baylor 5. Michigan State 6. Auburn 7. Oregon 8. USC 9. Georgia 10. Florida State 11. Notre Dame 12. Clemson 13. UCLA 14. LSU 15. Arizona State 16. Georgia Tech 17. Ole Miss 18. Arkansas 19. Oklahoma 20. Wisconsin 21. Stanford 22. Arizona 23. Boise State 24. Missouri 25. Tennessee
Top 4 is the same in both the AP and Coaches. There isn't any team with a bigger difference than two spots between the two polls. Mississippi State and Texas A&M are the first two out in both polls.
1. Ohio State (62) 2. TCU (1) 3. Alabama (1) 4. Baylor 5. Oregon 6. Michigan State 7. Auburn 8. Florida State 9. Georgia 10. USC 11. Notre Dame 12. Clemson 13. LSU 14. UCLA 15. Ole Miss 16. Arizona State 17. Georgia Tech 18. Wisconsin 19. Oklahoma 20. Arkansas 21. Stanford 22. Arizona 23. Missouri 24. Boise State 25. Tennessee
So with FSU at 10th they're expecting them to lose once, maybe twice. Then they have us at 12, which means we lose twice. With FSU and ND ahead of us, that's our 2 losses. Who is supposed to beat FSU if we don't?
So with FSU at 10th they're expecting them to lose once, maybe twice. Then they have us at 12, which means we lose twice. With FSU and ND ahead of us, that's our 2 losses. Who is supposed to beat FSU if we don't?
So with FSU at 10th they're expecting them to lose once, maybe twice. Then they have us at 12, which means we lose twice. With FSU and ND ahead of us, that's our 2 losses. Who is supposed to beat FSU if we don't?
Looking at their schedule,
who will lose to Clemson and Georgia.
That's an acceptable answer. What I was going for was either FSU or Clemson should be ranked higher than 10. Because one of us will finish higher than that, barring injuries and upsets.
So with FSU at 10th they're expecting them to lose once, maybe twice. Then they have us at 12, which means we lose twice. With FSU and ND ahead of us, that's our 2 losses. Who is supposed to beat FSU if we don't?
Looking at their schedule,
who will lose to Clemson and Georgia.
Talking about GT, they're the most talented team in the coastal division...but I wonder if VT or Duke can slip into the conference championship game. Neither team has to play Clemson or FSU while GT and Miami have to play both.
That's an acceptable answer. What I was going for was either FSU or Clemson should be ranked higher than 10. Because one of us will finish higher than that, barring injuries and upsets.
One of the reasons why preseason polls are commonly so wildly different from the final polls is that I doubt a majority of the people voting in either poll are really working out wins and losses like you are here. They're just doing a straight listing of who they think are the 25 best teams in college football. To use your example from the other day, all 7 teams in the SEC West are in the top 27 teams in both polls. That's easy to say now when there aren't wins and losses to associate with the teams. Like you mentioned though, at least a few of those seven teams are going to end up with at least 5 losses by the end of the year. It's much harder to rank a five loss team in that same top 27 when other teams from power five conferences have 3-4 losses. More specific to the FSU/Clemson/GT logjam is that the commonly held opinion is that the ACC is a weaker power five conference and people aren't completely sold on any of those three teams for different reasons, so they have difficulty ranking one of them any higher than they have even though one of the three will more than likely be in the top 10 by the end of the season.
Just the kind of distraction a team needs 12 days before the start of the season. Nice.
I love that this is supposed to make it better. They clearly tell you when you shouldn't drink on medication. It's actually way more irresponsible in my mind.
"Don't worry guys. I'm not a boozer. I just ignored doctor's orders and mixed pills and alcohol. Nothing to see here."
Post by Dave Maynar on Aug 27, 2015 12:43:44 GMT -5
Thursday can go fuck itself if you're a Tennessee fan.
Starting WR Alton "Pig" Howard is suspended for the opener versus Bowling Green for unspecified "long term" issues. Starting Safety LaDarrell McNeil will be out an "extended period of time" with a neck injury. WRs Jason Croom and Vincent Perry will both have their knees scoped tomorrow. WR Preston Williams' status is still uncertain. has been cleared to play. Hooray for good news!
Can we just start the damn season before the whole team gets injured?
Thursday can go fuck itself if you're a Tennesse fan.
Starting WR Alton "Pig" Howard is suspended for the opener versus Bowling Green for unspecified "long term" issues. Starting Safety LaDarrell McNeil will be out an "extended period of time" with a neck injury. WRs Jason Croom and Vincent Perry will both have their knees scoped tomorrow. WR Preston Williams' status is still uncertain. has been cleared to play. Hooray for good news!
Can we just start the damn season before the whole team gets injured?
edit: update on Williams.
someone should tell herbstreit. he picked us to win the East.
Thursday can go fuck itself if you're a Tennesse fan.
Starting WR Alton "Pig" Howard is suspended for the opener versus Bowling Green for unspecified "long term" issues. Starting Safety LaDarrell McNeil will be out an "extended period of time" with a neck injury. WRs Jason Croom and Vincent Perry will both have their knees scoped tomorrow. WR Preston Williams' status is still uncertain. has been cleared to play. Hooray for good news!
Can we just start the damn season before the whole team gets injured?
edit: update on Williams.
We've lost a starting OL to supplemental NFL draft, kicker was suspended for 3 games for cocaine, a starting DT has left the team for personal reasons, a 4 star Fr LB left the team because he decided he doesn't want to play football anymore and a starting DB was lost for the season due to injury. Let's play some games already!
Post by Zen Arcade on Aug 27, 2015 20:32:14 GMT -5
Just found out I'm finally going to my first ever Auburn game this year. We never had the time or money to go to one and my girlfriend went out of the way and got us tickets. I don't even care that it's Idaho. I am so stoked.
Just found out I'm finally going to my first ever Auburn game this year. We never had the time or money to go to one and my girlfriend went out of the way and got us tickets. I don't even care that it's Idaho. I am so stoked.
Just found out I'm finally going to my first ever Auburn game this year. We never had the time or money to go to one and my girlfriend went out of the way and got us tickets. I don't even care that it's Idaho. I am so stoked.
Heyyyy! War eagle! You're gonna have a blast.
I convinced my friends to go to the Texas A&M game last year and we all saw how that went... probably a good decision to start out on a cupcake game.
Post by Dave Maynar on Aug 31, 2015 9:39:19 GMT -5
I got inundated with promos for Michigan @ Utah on Thursday while I was watching TV yesterday. I have never been more excited for a Michigan game in my life than I am for this one. The season is so close!
all games are satruday games this week, so you still have a few days to research your picks.
edt: and, to settle any confusion: the confidence level is how many points you are wagering, essentially. So pick 10 for most confident and 1 for least confident.
all games are satruday games this week, so you still have a few days to research your picks.
Despite following it on the tv and reading more internet articles than I should, there's already games the first week that have me saying, "Fuck if I know."
1. Ohio State (61 first-place votes) 2. TCU 3. Alabama 4. Baylor 5. Michigan State 6. Auburn 7. Oregon 8. USC 9. Georgia 10. Florida State 11. Notre Dame 12. Clemson 13. UCLA 14. LSU 15. Arizona State 16. Georgia Tech 17. Ole Miss 18. Arkansas 19. Oklahoma 20. Wisconsin 21. Stanford 22. Arizona 23. Boise State 24. Missouri 25. Tennessee
Top 4 is the same in both the AP and Coaches. There isn't any team with a bigger difference than two spots between the two polls. Mississippi State and Texas A&M are the first two out in both polls.
I got inundated with promos for Michigan @ Utah on Thursday while I was watching TV yesterday. I have never been more excited for a Michigan game in my life than I am for this one. The season is so close!
Pretty excited for Thursday and the start of the season. Hoping the new couch gets delivered before Thursday. I will be very sloth like Thurs-Sat.
Charges include Public Intoxication, Underage Consumption Of Alcohol and Restricted Use Of A Controlled Road. You may be curious what that last one means. In short, he got hammered and then started running around I-40E near James White Parkway.
Nearly everyone who has orbited in Harbaugh’s solar system for a length of time possesses a whopper of an anecdote about the new Michigan coach.
Frank Beamer has one. The Virginia Tech head coach is sitting on a porch overlooking a golf course in Reynolds Plantation, Georgia, on a tar-bubbling summer afternoon—a lazy, storytelling kind of afternoon. As he puts down a glass of lemonade on a table, he says he has a tale to tell. It might just be, he claims, the weirdest damn story of his entire coaching career.
Beamer leans back in his chair and loosens a memory from late 2010. The Hokies of Virginia Tech, where Beamer has coached for the last 28 autumns, were preparing to play Stanford in the Orange Bowl. A few days before the Jan. 3 game, Beamer met the Cardinal head coach—Harbaugh—at an event in Planet Hollywood in Miami.
“After we take some pictures, we start talking, just the two of us,” Beamer said. “Jim says over and over how much respect he has for Georgia Tech. He must have said it five times. I’m just looking at him like, ‘Are you serious?’
“Finally, I’m joking with him and I say I can’t wait to tell my team that you called us Georgia Tech. Because, you know, we’re Virginia Tech.”
Harbaugh then threw his infamous shark expression at Beamer: mouth agape, eyes on fire, looking poised to chomp. Harbaugh’s assistants have seen this look for years; he sometimes holds it for about 30 seconds without speaking, causing everyone in eyeshot to wonder what is flowing through his mind—if anything.
Beamer continued to lock eyes with Harbaugh for a few moments, waiting for him to say something, anything. It may have been the most uncomfortable silence of Beamer’s life.
“Well,” Harbaugh finally told Beamer. “I can’t wait to tell my players that you said you were going to play Samford, not Stanford!” He then turned and walked away.
More than four years later, Beamer smiles at the memory, still befuddled by Harbaugh's response. “No question, Jim is a different kind of coach,” said Beamer, whose team lost in the Orange Bowl to Harbaugh and Stanford 40-12 in what was Harbaugh’s last college game.
“He’s either crazy...or he’s crazy like a damn fox.”
The lantern-jawed coach was sitting at a table in a conference room at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago on a midsummer afternoon. He leaned forward on the edge of his chair, his eyes wide, as he recalled a moment from his days at Stanford.
As he explained it, he was on his way to the office when he noticed a traffic light wasn’t working; a cop was standing in the middle of a busy intersection, directing cars this way and that way. The female officer displayed such command of the intersection that Harbaugh pulled over to the side of the road, mesmerized.
For half an hour, Harbaugh sat in his car and studied the scene. He was nearly late for practice because he was so enthralled with the skill and the savvy of the traffic cop. “I like to watch people doing their job at the highest level,” he said. “I really do.”
On a recent summer evening, Jim and Sarah Harbaugh were enjoying a quiet meal at an Ann Arbor restaurant. But then a commotion erupted, and it had nothing to do with the town’s most famous resident.
A mouse was on the loose.
Harbaugh leapt into action. The single-minded coach grabbed a to-go box and began a great chase. He cornered the mouse and, displaying his trademark tenacity, eventually captured it in the styrofoam box.
“I caught it!” he yelled to the other patrons. “I caught it!”
The crowd cheered, and Harbaugh—who released the mouse across the street in an open field—once again played the role of the conquering hero.
It's so great to see a Spurrier coached team struggle on offense.
Haha. When I was typing that, this is basically the response I expected from you. I am correct in remembering that UNC's defense isn't supposed to be anything special, right? If so, it might be a long year for SC.
Haha. When I was typing that, this is basically the response I expected from you. I am correct in remembering that UNC's defense isn't supposed to be anything special, right? If so, it might be a long year for SC.
UNC's defense was terrible last year. They have Gene Chizik coaching now, so they'll be better. SC is going to struggle throwing the ball with that new QB and Cooper being their only good WR.
Holy moly, Matt Leinart is doing pre game on Fox Sports 1 for the Michigan game. I knew he wasn't in the NFL anymore but it's weird to see someone who was arguably the biggest player in college football doing the reporter thing so soon. I guess Tebow didn't waste any time when he wasn't playing. Also, not really a fan of Michigans all white jerseys. Whatever pleases Harbaugh, I guess.