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Week 13 Coaches Poll released
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The new Coaches Poll was just released!
There has been a shakeup at the top of the poll after Alabama lost Tua Tagovailoa for the season, Georgia winning at Auburn and top 10 teams Minnesota and Baylor losing over the weekend.
The SEC continues to have three teams ranked in the top 10.
The league also added a new team to the rankings this week as Texas A&M has climbed back into the poll after winning its fourth consecutive game and fifth in six attempts.
Here is an updated look at the Week 13 Coaches Poll:
#1 LSU
#2 Ohio State
#3 Clemson
#4 Georgia
#5 Alabama
#6 Oregon
#7 Oklahoma
#8 Utah
#9 Penn State
#10 Florida
#11 Minnesota
#12 Michigan
#13 Baylor
#14 Wisconsin
#15 Notre Dame
#16 Auburn
#17 Cincinnati
#18 Memphis
#19 Boise State
#20 Iowa
#21 SMU
#22 Appalachian State
#23 Oklahoma State
#24 Texas A&M
#25 San Diego State
Others receiving votes:
Virginia Tech 46; Air Force 43; Indiana 39; Navy 25; Virginia 20; Louisiana Tech 10; UL Lafayette 8; Pittsburgh 7; Southern California 3; Wake Forest 2; Temple 1; Kansas State 1.
Actually SEC has 4 teams in top 10
How can a team that has not even played – much less beaten – a single team that is in the Top 10 be voted the 2nd best team in the nation? Big 10 crush much?
The same way that a team that A) has a loss and B) hasn’t beaten a single team in the top 20 – and after next week a team that is currently ranked – and has an injured starting QB and has had issues with their running game and defense all year long is in the top 5.
Good grief folks the SEC isn’t that good this year. This poll shows it. It is UGA (with all their issues on offense), UF (with their backup QB and their OL issues), Alabama (all their running game and defense issues), LSU (again serious issues on defense) and everybody else. It would be one thing if 3 or even 2 of the top 4 were complete teams, or if there was a solid middle class of teams with a shot at getting to 9 or 10 wins after bowl season but that isn’t the case. This IS NOT the year for SEC teams to be casting aspersions on contenders from other conferences.
Ohio State may not have played a tough schedule, but they don’t have the obvious personnel deficiencies that the top SEC teams – including your Gators – have that show up even against lesser foes. Good grief, App State played South Carolina better than UGA, Alabama and your own Gators did, ESPECIALLY on defense where App State held them to 15 points and utterly dominated them for 3 1/2 quarters before running out of gas at the end. Oh yeah, 4-6 UNC, who may not even make a bowl game this year despite playing in the pitiful ACC, did also.
The SEC’s only hope against the likes of Ohio State, Clemson and even Oklahoma this year that LSU can make enough plays on defense to slow those teams down while their offense goes out and wins the game. The same LSU team that barely got by 6-4 Texas! Texas put up 38 points on LSU and could have put up more if Tom Herman wasn’t, well Tom Herman. Meanwhile Oklahoma and TCU held Texas to 27 points and IOWA STATE held the Longhorns to 21.
At some point you guys are going to have to face reality. The current SEC isn’t nearly as strong as it was 10 years ago when the #3 team in the conference could blow out the #1 team from nearly every other conference by 21 points. And it hasn’t been that strong in quite awhile.
Interesting take. If the conference wins another Natty the SEC is weaker?
Methodologies for winning constantly evolve.
The difference is Alabama has won 2 of the last 4 National Championships and Ohio State hasn’t. That’s why Alabama (and Clemson, which has won the other 2 of the last 4) can play weak schedules and based on their very recent successes are legitimately ranked high. Ohio State is ranked high for no reason other than Big 10 crush.
Just asking, how is Oklahoma ranked higher than Penn State? Oklahoma was beat by unranked Kansas State and Penn State was beat by Minnesota, who is ranked.