SEC
8 SEC teams crack Brett McMurphy's preseason top-25 rankings
Clemson and Alabama are the top-two teams in the country heading into 2019, right?
Not according to Stadium’s Brett McMurphy, who has the Tigers at No. 1, but has the Crimson Tide down at No. 3 in his preseason top-25 rankings.
As you can see below, McMurphy had 8 SEC teams in his top 25, with Georgia slotting in at No. 2 between Clemson and Alabama:
- No. 2 — Georgia
- No. 3 — Alabama
- No. 7 — LSU
- No. 10 — Florida
- No. 12 — Texas A&M
- No. 13 — Auburn
- No. 16 — Mississippi State
- No. 21 — Mizzou
Five of those teams are in the SEC West, with 3 in the East. Both conferences have 2 teams in McMurphy’s top 10.
Will McMurphy look smart for having the Dawgs at No. 2 when most analysts have them below Alabama? We’ll find out this fall.
Everybody is entitled to an opinion, even if it’s mainly to get clicks.
More Missouri love. I guess we’ll see pretty soon if it’s warranted.
Can’t wait to make bank the week we play them bc Vegas will definitely favor mizzou
What makes you think South Carolina beating Mizzou is a foregone conclusion? Or why Mizzou having a top 25 preseason ranking is so far fetched? Just curious… serious questions.
I don’t think it’s terribly far fetched, but I do think it is more a result of them getting alot of positive PR during the offseason w/ the Bryant transfer and all.
Basically, I have a feeling that it might be more smoke than fire, that’s all. (And I could be wrong.)
I would agree, to an extent, that Kelly Bryant has helped put Mizzou in some conversations. But offense was not our problem, our defense is. And for the first time in 2 or 3 years I am optimistic that our defense can be average. Not great, but average. And if Mizzou can just be average, then we don’t lose close games to Kentucky and SCar and UGA, etc.
While it’s nice to be ranked, I’ve been a Mizzou fan long enough to know that we tend to underperform when expectations are high.
“And if Mizzou can just be average, then we don’t lose close games to Kentucky and SCar and UGA, etc.”
LOL, so much hilarity to unpack there.
Just facts, hillbilly. Our defense stunk horribly and it still took SCar and Kentucky’s very last play of the game to beat us.
Nice dodge though, just LOL like a school girl and can’t make an argument.
I see you have proven your rhetorical acumen by resorting to name-calling, the highest form of debate. Well done.
I also see that you conveniently made assumptions and moved your goalposts, further confirming your brilliance. Congrats.
I think you can do better.
How did I move the goal posts? That logical fallacy isn’t present in my statement.
And what assumptions did I make??
Well, you first claimed that Mizzou had close games against UK, SCAR, and UGA. Then you switched to only talking about UK and SCAR. Goalposts = moved.
Then you assumed, despite the fact that I mentioned there was a lot of hilarity to unpack, that there was only one thing I was talking about. Maybe I wasn’t saying it was hilarious to call one score games against UK and SCAR close (which I wasn’t – that is so obvious that I can’t believe I have to point it out), but was instead laughing at a fan admitting that half their team was bad or thinking that a merely average defense would be enough to have a real shot against the best team in the division.
It sounds like you just need to google the definition of “moving the goalposts” because you don’t even understand the words you are using. That’s some hilariousness that needs unpacked.
But to clarify, the games against UK, SC, and UGA were all close games that could’ve been won by Mizzou with one or two more defensive stops. The thing that UK and SC had in common was it took the final play of those games for Mizzou to lose. That’s not ‘moving the goalpost’, since those are still part of my same argument.
Try again.
Ever played paintball with someone who bragged about their Matrix-level dodging while everyone tried not to laugh at the paint dripping from them? You’re the internet equivalent of that person right now.
Your mistakes may look different from your perspective, but that’s what happens when you rush in with bad assumptions like a hillbilly schoolgirl.
And since “defensive stops” =/= “turnovers returned for TDs” thanks for the additional laughs. UGA didn’t blow Mizzou out, but Mizzou wasn’t a play or two away from victory.
You really haven’t even made a coherent argument, at all. You initially stated there’s “too much hilarity to unpack”, then later admitted that all the games I mentioned were close games. Can’t you just admit that you never actually had a point?
My points, again, for those who can’t read:
1) It is funny to see a Mizzou fan say they were bad
2) It is funny to see someone claim Mizzou v UGA in 2018 was so close that an “average” defense would have won mizzou the game.
Can’t you just admit when you’re wrong?
Funny stuff. So wot says “ My points again”, when that ID hasn’t made a single comment on this thread. Another multiple ID poster. How sad. Like we needed another of those guys here.
Cool, another person who just walks in making assumptions because they think they know everything. SAD! Like we needed another of those guys here.
Not that I owe anyone an explanation (especially not someone who tends to give up when they run out of stuff to say when they’re trying to argue), or that it matters in the slightest, but sometimes – oh, idk – a website that requires login for comments won’t let an existing user log in, so they create a new account in order to comment, and when their browser saves both and both are working, they sometimes use the two interchangeably.
Says a lot about a person when they care more about who is presenting an argument than what the argument is.
I mean, we were ranked in the back end of the top 25 at the end of the regular season, return a slightly better roster, and are ranked ever so slightly higher.
It’s not exactly championship hype. It’s saying that we’ll probably win 8 or 9 games again. Being way overhyped is a bit more like 2014 South Carolina.
Crazy. This guy must despise Bama even more than I do.
You think there is a big difference between two and three, or even one and three during the playoff era?
It’s preseason… nothing really to get worked up about from a Bama fans perspective..
There can be a big difference. I think Bama is better than Georgia, that’s all.
I mean, not really. The #2 team plays the #3 team in the playoff. The difference is jersey color and nothing else.
Pretty sure bayou tiger was saying that there can be a big difference in how good #2 and #3 are. Rankings don’t necessarily tell us that. But yes, being ranked #2 or #3 doesn’t matter very much in the current system (and it matters even less in the offseason).
MSU at 16? CBS has them (us) at 32. So yeah, everybody has an opinion.
Missouri?
You called?