Quite Fankly ... I prefer that we be ranked #3. The "underdog" position has always served LSU well. Rankings don't matter until the final week. LSU wins out, wins the SECC, ...and goes to the dance. That's all that really matters. All this other "ranking" crap is just ego. :geaux:
I'm having flashbacks to the pass from JJ to Randle in the Auburn game last year. Great WRs don't make those mistakes.
And something else has occurred to me, as well. We can complain about the accuracy of the QB's all we want, but these receivers were lighting it up in high school catching balls, and I'm guessing most of them didn't have a college-caliber QB tossing it to them. Step up, receivers!
True, but your system is contingent on the convenient fact that the pollsters placed us #4 to start. Auburn, the defending national champion, could go undefeated this season and not play for the NC again if two people ahead of them who are NOT on their schedule go undefeated.
Robert Smith is an LSU hating jacka$$. He may be right, but you have to take everything anti-LSU he says with a grain of salt because of his bias.
Rueben did. His QB would've been starting for Ole Miss last weekend if not for his own bar fight melee. He'll be playing this weekend. That's the homey but he looked flat out lazy out there Saturday night, despite being doubled a good bit. The worst of which was him standing and watching while Spencer Ware was being gang-tackled. Get in there and snatch somebody off or something! If he couldn't routinely separate from a backup, what would Cliff Harris have done with him? What will he do against SEC corners? I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. His first game as the #1 guy at Bastrop was pretty uneventful too. He had played QB the two weeks prior while Mackey was suspended. His first game after that was quiet, then he took off and became "the best HS receiver in the nation." The knock on him from within the program back then was that while supremely talented, he lacked motivation. He was getting by on pure talent, rather than desire. Of course, him being the first ever recruit of that magnitude (#1 WR on a top-10 nationally ranked team), that would never come out. For all the dominance brought by our team, the receivers by far get the worst grade. Jarrett Lee, despite his experience, gets somewhat of a pass because technically, he was "thrown in" again without a great deal of time to prepare to be the man. Add to that the numerous dropped balls and his respectable effort becomes even more respectable. He wasn't a world-beater, but I don't think he's that kind of QB anyway. On topic: if we're undefeated after MooSU and the Couchburners, we're jumping somebody. If not, we will have taken a whole bunch of first place votes from the OU and Bama.
Actual results 1, Oklahoma (43)...1,454 2, Alabama (9)......1,412 3, LSU (7).......... 1,366 My projections had LSU being voted no worse than 3rd in any voter's ballot. What these numbers tell me is that there are still several voters (as many as 16) who don't even have us in the top 3. And that is complete bullshyt. Those coaches need to be stripped of voting rights. LSU should have been at 1382 points. Breakdown of voting is pretty much: .....................1st 2nd 3rd....4th Oklahoma........ 43...11..5 .....0 Alabama........... 9...37..13 ....0 LSU................. 7...11..25....16 I suspect Boise State has all 16 3rd place votes that LSU did not take.
