USA Today Poll--Sept. 9

Well played, Amigo.

 

These early polls are dumb. Like I told TT with his bs preseason polls. Only thing this produces is teams like Bama getting credit for a top 10 win when the team they beat didn't belong in the top 15 maybe 20.

 

I also remember thinking SEC officials were honest and competent.

I know, right?

 

some notes on the AP Poll from ESPN:

--Tennessee is back in the Top 25 for the first time in 4 long years

--Arkansas had the 2nd-largest drop of the AP Poll era (began in the 1930s), the largest was in 2007 when No. 5 Michigan lost to Appy State

--4 of the Top 10 mainstays in the AP Poll were knocked out of the AP Top 25 for the first time in years:

Longest active appearance streaks in the weekly AP Top 25
1. Alabama, 68 ... 2008-current
2. LSU, 51 ... 2009-current
3. Oregon, 47 ... 2009-current
--Nebraska, 37-- ... lost to UCLA
--Wisconsin, 36-- ... lost to Oregon State
4. Oklahoma, 35 ... 2010-current
--Arkansas, 34-- ... lost to UL-Monroe
5. South Carolina, 34 ... 2010-current
5. Stanford, 34 ... 2010-current
--Oklahoma State, 29-- ... lost to Arizona
7. Virginia Tech, 28 ... 2010-current

 

I can't believe we were unranked for those final few weeks of 2008. Well...I can believe it, I watched the games. But you know what I mean. You would have to go all the way back to 2002 to find another time we were unranked.

 

Pay attention knuckle head. It's a carry-over from another thread.

 

The number of players lost should have no bearing on a pre-season poll. They are the defending champion and recruited very well. It will all shake out in the end. It looks like that will depend on how many players you lose along the way, especially for us.

 

That's why I said it has no bearing on Bama since they did reload properly, but take Auburn and their championship run and then losing everything that made them champions. You don't rank them #1 to start the next year just because they won the previous year.

 

A very good example. I don't have a big problem with where Bama is--along with the fact that they beat Michigan to open the season (albeit, UM was probably as over-ranked to start the year as Arkansas.)

AU, on the other hand? Well, the past two seasons speak for themselves.

And, for that matter, LSU lost a ton after both our '03 and '07 NC's.

 

The way the rankings are right now is decent. LSU should be #2 and USC #3, though. #1 will take care of itself Nov. 3rd, I think.