Three SEC teams named among 'most overrated college programs' over last decade
Three SEC teams were named to the USA Today Sports Big Lead’s “Most Overrated College Football Programs of the Last Decade” piece.
The SEC’s most overrated? Georgia topped the list at No. 1, while LSU ranked seventh and Florida ranked ninth.
The author, Jason Lisk, noted that Georgia was “perennially ranked” under former head coach Mark Richt but “rarely matched expectations,” which is what led to his firing in November.
Lisk also pointed out that LSU hadn’t been ranked higher than 14th in any of the past four years at season’s end and has finished unranked just as many times as it has finished in the top 12 since its 2007 national championship.
He also mentioned Florida’s decline since Urban Meyer’s final season, in which the team was expected to add to the success of its two national championships in a span of three years. However, the Gators failed to find success under replacement Will Muschamp and entered Jim McElwain’s first season unranked for the second consecutive year, despite the Gators taking home the SEC East crown.
You can read the full article of the most overrated college football programs of the last decade over at The Big Lead.
Hard to argue that. Could be why ole boy is down in Miami and there is a new Head Dawg in town.
The irony in this article is that fans of UF and Georgia are the most rabid commenters on these comment boards about how “over-hyped” UT is every year!!!
That’s because it’s UT Fans who over-hype their team every year. Not the “experts.”
Georgia’s problem is actually the opposite. The media thought we’d be awesome every year but the fan base has always had our doubts under Richt. Well, at least that what I’ve always felt, can’t speak for all UGA fans.
Ding Ding Ding. We always heard from UT fans that they were “back” or “this is a different year.” With the dawgs we were always ranked and more often than not won ten games but didn’t win the big ones. Bit of difference. Not going to say we weren’t overrated because we always had talent (see NFL picks) we just didn’t do anything with it.
Looky here!!! blaming the fans for the comments from the Media… its never been the fans… for every fan hype comment I can show you at least 10 media.
No…just no. Sure there are the fans that are totally blind to realistic expectations, but most fans I’ve seen on forums outside of SDS are extremely cautious and hesitant about expectations for this year. When you’ve been down for so long, that’s all you can be. Really what it is, is the last 2 years, the media has shown UT some love, and some fans from other bases, primarily UF and UGA, have taken that and run with it. They have blown it so far past reality for so long that they actually believe it has been happening for longer than it really has.
Well…. I would agree with Mattmd2 and there’s been an above average amount of Tennessee fans fanning their own flame. So much hype for nothing to show yet. Win the SEC East then start talking about higher expectations. Tennessee still had 4 losses (3 to SEC teams). There’s quiet a few streaks Tennessee needs to break before this hype can be proven.
Two NC’S in the last decade is not overrated…
It is almost as if they are talking about since Urban left and since UF last won a NC
Almost as if…
lol
Here’s an article on over rated fan bases so we’ll throw in a picture form the sugar bowl for click bait!
1: how can a fan base be overrated?
2: I’m pretty sure that’s a picture of Uga fans, but there are no school logos or whatever so there’s no way to know for sure.
3: ole pi$$ is easily the most overrated team.
yea yea, well I can appreciate journalistic integrity. Admitting when you were wrong is important, and its also important to recognize that the list is based on where a team was ranked in the preseason AP poll. Fans can read the list and think its a knock against the team, but it might be more accurately interpreted as a knock against the AP
If I had to list the most overrated teams, it would look like this:
Notre Same is by FAR the most overrated team ever but after them, I would list them in this order.
1- Oklahoma
2- Georgia
3- Oregon
4- Miami
5- USC
6- Texas
7- Nebraska
8- LSU
9- UCLA
10- Michigan
I can agree with some of your list. Why is Oklahoma so high though? And obviously, I’ll throw in that its hard for LSU to be overrated when you haven’t won less than 8 games in this century….and even that has only happened 4 times. so 11/15 seasons have been 9 or more wins.
The reason why Oklahoma is so high is because they are usually ranked really high every year to start the season and rarely live up to those rankings, plus they have an advantage of playing in a weak conference. Plus I really dislike Stoops and Oklahoma.
LSU barely made the list but after looking at them closer, I probably wouldn’t have them on my list.
Nebraska has become irrelevant and I doubt they every recover, at least not in our life time.
I almost put Oregon at 1 or 2. They never had a chance because they don’t play defense and when they played a SEC team, their offense was shut down.
fair enough. I think USC and Texas are more overrated than Oklahoma. Even when I feel like Oklahoma isn’t all that great, they’ll surprise me by beating Bama in the Sugar Bowl or something like that. Definitely agree about Oregon. I remember how when LSU opened against them in Dallas in ’11 and EVERYONE was picking Oregon, saying they were “too fast”… the offense was good, except that Tyrann kind of dismantled them single handedly…. I agree with you there.
Pot meet Kettle.
Pretty spot on. I know that I will hear it for being a ‘bammer’ but other than that Cam /Fairley season hasn’t Auburn pretty regularly underperformed over the last decade? In my defense, my father attended Auburn, I went to UT, and I currently live on the Carolina coast. Beyond that, I think this list is spot on.
You bammer! Though there is some validity to your statement. Auburn has a pretty distinguished history of falling when the expectations are high. On the flip side, our best season are when nobody expects it. Can they be the biggest over and under achiever?
spot on Weagle! I would definitely nominate Auburn has biggest over AND under achiever. Wild card roller coaster if I’ve ever seen one. Even though it isn’t a huge rivalry, I always look forward to the Auburn/LSU game. LSU is kind of the same way…. not really on a season to season basis, but on a week to week basis…. some games or drives or plays we look like pop warner tigers, other times like ’85 bears. Never know if its gonna be 41-7 or 10-45…. volatile series.
Well at least Notre Dame finished undefeated and made a National Championship game.. More than Ole Miss can say. Oklahoma shouldn’t be #2. They haven’t won less than 8 games in the decade and averaged around 10 wins.
And Notre dame and ole pi$$ have the same chance at getting a conference championship.
Call me biased, but I really don’t see how lsu is overrated. Yeah, we rarely finish in the top ten, but how many times have we started there? Most years we start and end in the teens. These people need to look up overrated in a dictionary. Uga and Florida have repeatedly had very low expectations, (uf last year? VERY underrated) and usually get ranked by the end of the season. That’s not the worst of this ranking either. I’m glad this doesn’t matter, because it’s crap.
I seem to remember you being very hyped on Georgia last off season.