Your dbaggery is staggerring Being honest, though, while the 2012 season is relevant for teams returning a lot of the same guys that played in 2012, we aren't one of those teams. Our QB is inconsistent, our OL young and lacking depth, we have no proven stars at receiver and our D is full of new faces On top of that we play one of the toughest schedules possible, drawing both Georgia and Florida from the East Vegas, the Advocate staff, Mike Detieller, etc are all predicting 9-3 which is reasonable For a projected 3 loss team to be ranked 13 is a sign of respect, as the highest ranked 3 loss team last year (us) was ranked 13
uga gets the #5 ranking, but LSU lost so many players on defense, thats the reason for their low ranking? LSU returns 12 of the top 20 tacklers from last year, uga, returns 8 of their 20 from last year. Also the last time uga returned 10 players on offense was in 2010(Also returned a small number on the defensive side of the ball), that year they went 7-6. Won't take but about 3 weeks into the season to see a lot of movement in the polls.
ND returns a ton of starters from a team that went 12-1 playing one of the toughest schedules in the nation Losing Golston likely makes them better at QB, like when we lost JJ in 2011. You can read more on this in the Golston thread on the college sports forum here as for stars, ND's DL features Stephon Tuitt and Louis Nix, who are household names in the world of football. Both are preseason 1st team All-American, both projected to be the #1 or 2 player drafted at their position, 1st round. And I'd imagine that's not all the great players they have And, if you read the first CFB Vegas lines thread here, you'll see: "Notre Dame underdogs in only ONE GAME this season: +5.5 at Stanford the last game of the season (via Golden Nugget)"
If toughest means Michigan, USC, Oklahoma and Stanford, then I guess it's tough.....the rest of their schedule is a joke.
Georgia's offense is ridiculously stacked, ours not so much. Our D looks to be better than theirs but i haven't dug into that yet. If you look at the first Vegas CFB line thread here, you'll see they have Georgia favored to win ALL their games and go 12-0. But we'll know soon, 3 of UGA's first 4 games are tough and they are only barely favored in them, they could easily take some losses right off the bat
They had a lot tougher schedule than that. This time last year i mocked them here for being ranked preseason with the insane schedule they had, i even mentioned 6-6 was a good possibility But yeah, compared to LSU, everybody's schedule is a joke. See Bama
In recent history UGA has done nothing but choke whenever they've been contenders.for a title. As of today I see little reason for that to change.
Oh, ND's 12-0 record was very misleading last year. On the pregame thread for the BSCCG here, i broke it all down and showed why ND had zero chance in hell at beating Bama, just using ND's actual scores and performances. But, returning so many players, they should be much better this season
