Published July 31, 2012 - 4:00pm
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Whether you think preseason top 25 lists are relevant or not, they are fun, and they are an indication that the college football season is just around the corner.
CBSSports.com released their preseason top 25, and four SEC teams were in top 10 and six teams were included overall.
Here is the top 25:
1. LSU
2. USC
3. Alabama
4. Oklahoma
5. Oregon
6. Georgia
7. Florida State
8. South Carolina
9. Michigan
10. West Virginia
11. Arkansas
12. Wisconsin
13. Clemson
14. Michigan State
15. Ohio State
16. TCU
17. Texas
18. Virginia Tech
19. Oklahoma State
20. Nebraska
21. Stanford
22. Kansas State
23. Florida
24. Utah
25. Boise State
Other receiving votes: Auburn, Notre Dame, Baylor, Louisville and North Carolina.
Florida State, TCU, Texas, Oklahoma are the most overrated.
Kansas State, Missouri, Louisville not getting the respect they deserve. That’s why the games are played
C’mon CFB
The preseason Top 25
Every year we wait for it, and every year someone gets pissed because their team isn’t as high as they think they should be, or someone gets pissed because some other school is ranked “too high”. I believe that polls shouldn’t come out until after the first few weeks are played, but that won’t stop people from making predictions. And they shouldn’t stop either. That’s what they get paid to do.
However, it has never been, in my short lifetime, a better time to be a Hog fan! 3 straight winning seasons, a Top 5 finish, a BCS Berth. Success can only bring more success in the years to come! It just so happens that the upward swing of the Hogs also comes at the time when LSU and Alabama are tops in the league and nation, and other teams are on teh rise.
Stanford, K State and Arkansas, and Louisville are underrated here.
Florida, TCU, S. Carolina, Ohio State, Florida State, are overrated.
and “Other receiving votes: Auburn, Notre Dame, Baylor, and North Carolina.”
HAHAH WHAT?
Auburn? Maybe. ND? They don’t even know who their QB will be. What a joke. Baylor without RG3? Who are they voting for? and North Carolina? Nope. I don’t think they will be bad, but they shouldn’t be getting top 25 votes.
Every pre-season poll is based upon :
(1) Where the team ended the previous season
(2) Who they play in the up-coming season
Georgia Bulldogs, who finished the 2011-2012 season as the # 5 team in The SEC in every poll, in the off-season can measure up the 11 “opponents” we play this up-coming season as 11 teams who average 4.8 wins and 1 opponent who made any top 25 poll, and find that we are consensus now pre-season # 6 in the nation because of our favorable schedule of 1 game against The 5 SEC teams ranked in the Top 11 in the nation pre-season.
Ultimately, the season will be measured as a season that either does or does not, end these current streaks :
(1) not beat any of 9 SEC teams who put-up a winning SEC record starting with our Kentucky game way back in 2007
(2) not beat any of 9 teams from any conference who made any top 25 poll
(3) not beat any of 7 teams who achieved Top 10 after beating # 9 Auburn way back in 2006