Is it time to look back at the preseason polls yet and LOL at them?

[Tharvot]

Getting pretty close. Its always fun to take a look late in the season and laugh at the teams projected to be high that dropped out and the teams that are running high right now that were not even considered in the preseason.

2013 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 1 - ESPN

 

[006]

1 Alabama (58) 0-0 1498
2 Ohio State (1) 0-0 1365
3 Oregon 0-0 1335
4 Stanford 0-0 1294
5 Georgia (1) 0-0 1249
6 South Carolina 0-0 1154
7 Texas A&M 0-0 1104
8 Clemson 0-0 1083
9 Louisville 0-0 1042
10 Florida 0-0 894
11 Florida State 0-0 845
12 LSU 0-0 802
13 Oklahoma State 0-0 755
14 Notre Dame 0-0 748
15 Texas 0-0 677
16 Oklahoma 0-0 579
17 Michigan 0-0 531
18 Nebraska 0-0 382
19 Boise State 0-0 328
20 TCU 0-0 323
21 UCLA 0-0 286
22 Northwestern 0-0 199
23 Wisconsin 0-0 185
24 USC 0-0 134
25 Oregon State 0-0 129

 

[MAIZEandBLUE09]

Michigan's not too far off where we originally started. In fact, the big ten is pretty similar to where it was projected pre-season.

 

[Ironbreaker]

I've been doing it since they were released. What do you mean is it time???

 

[sakau2007]

meh, it wasn't that bad. i see 6 ranked sec teams in the preseason and now 6 in the week 8 poll. of course the unbiased computers have more, but it's a difficult concept for some humans to see that when 2 good teams play one another, someone has to lose and it doesn't necessarily mean the team should drop.

 

[Tharvot]

meh, it wasn't that bad. i see 6 ranked sec teams in the preseason and now 6 in the week 8 poll. of course the unbiased computers have more, but it's a difficult concept for some humans to see that when 2 good teams play one another, someone has to lose and it doesn't necessarily mean the team should drop.

The SEC East teams were WAY overrated going in to the year. So were UT and ND.

 

[Smart]

It's funny how we are 6-0-1 against the spread and are ranked in the exact same place. That would never happen to a media darling.

 

[xpuctaqpGT]

I actually had a most overrated/most underrated thread from pre-season. I'll be revisiting it at the end.

 

[Bamabino]

Tim Brando's preseason top 10.


1.Louisville
2.Ohio State
3.Texas A&M
4.Stanford
5.Georgia
6.Clemson
7.Alabama
8.Okie.State
9.Oregon
10.Oklahoma

 

[006]

The SEC East teams were WAY overrated going in to the year. So were UT and ND.

You're probably correct, but this had a lot to do with Georgia and Florida

All SEC east injured team.
QB - James Franklin, Mizzou
RB - Todd Gurley, UGA
RB - Matt Jones, UF
WR - Malcolm Mitchell, UGA
WR - Justin Scott-Wesley, UGA
OL - Chaz Green, UF
TE - Colin Thompson, UF
DT - Dominique Easley, UF
DT - Kelcy Quarles, USC
NG - Damien Jacobs, UF
DE - Ronald Powell, UF
MLB - Chase Garnham, Vandy
OLB - Matt Rolin, UF
OLB - Darrin Kitchens, UF
LB - Jeremi Powell, UF
CB - EJ Gaines, Mizzou
CB - Nick Washington, UF
S - Tray Matthews, UGA
S - Josh Harvey-Clemons, UGA
KR - Andre Debose, UF

Bench:
QB - Jeff Driskel, UF; Connor Shaw, USC; Austyn Carta-Samuels, Vandy
WR - Michael Bennett, UGA; Chris Conley, UGA
RB - Keith Marshall, UGA

 

[sakau2007]

The SEC East teams were WAY overrated going in to the year. So were UT and ND.

ohio state started #2 and hasn't beaten a top 20 team in how many years?

how overrated was missouri?

and not that it's an excuse, but georgia's injuries... and both carolina and florida are without their starting QB's. if these teams hadnt had these players entering the season, they wouldn't have been ranked nearly as high.

 

[Sox33OSU]

ohio state started #2 and hasn't beaten a top 20 team in how many years?

how overrated was missouri?

and not that it's an excuse, but georgia's injuries... and both carolina and florida are without their starting QB's. if these teams hadnt had these players entering the season, they wouldn't have been ranked nearly as high.

Since when did the polls only go to 20?

 

[Tharvot]

ohio state started #2 and hasn't beaten a top 20 team in how many years?

how overrated was missouri?

and not that it's an excuse, but georgia's injuries... and both carolina and florida are without their starting QB's. if these teams hadnt had these players entering the season, they wouldn't have been ranked nearly as high.

Everyone gets injuries. Ohio State's defensive captain got injured. It happens, part of the game.

I was looking at the SEC east teams ranked preseason, namely UGA, UF, and USCe. All top 10 pre-season and only 1 is even ranked top 25 at this point in the season, and they are ranked 20.

 

[Red_Alert]

Ohio St was and remains the most over-rated team in the top 10.

It's akin to ranking Northern Illinois in the Top 5.

 

[TbigtenU]

Haters gonna hate. It's part of the human psych. We'll see how this all comes out on the field. In any case, tB1G just beats each other up. Lol.

 

[Tharvot]

Ohio St was and remains the most over-rated team in the top 10.

It's akin to ranking Northern Illinois in the Top 5.

Our defense remains an obvious weak link. Our offense will score 30-40 every game tho. Hard to say how Ohio State would do vs any of the others in the top 5.

 

[tech_iceman]

Getting pretty close. Its always fun to take a look late in the season and laugh at the teams projected to be high that dropped out and the teams that are running high right now that were not even considered in the preseason.

2013 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 1 - ESPN

Those really aren't as bad as usual

 

[SECHATER12]

ur an idiot red alert ur tring to compare northern illinois to ohio st go troll somewhere else.

 

[sakau2007]

ur an idiot red alert ur tring to compare northern illinois to ohio st go troll somewhere else.

why? because ohio state has been so many more top flight teams than northern illinois?

they are actually fairly comparable... skate through seasons undefeated or with 1 loss without anyone really knowing how good they are and then get pimpslapped in a BCS game. see: ohio state in 2006 and 2007, northern illinois in 2012.

i think ohio state is better than northern illinois, but that is based on their wins being slightly better and their recruiting. if they are leaps and bounds better, they certainly haven't proved it on the field.

 

[tshirt]

looking at how the original top 25 ranks today...

They were right within 4 spots on 11 teams
1/1 to 1/1 Bama (off by 0)
2/2 to 4/4 Ohio State (off by 2)
3/3 to 2/2 Oregon (off by 1)
4/4 to 8/8 Stanford (off by 4)
8/8 to 9/10 Clemson (off by 1/2)
12/13 to 13/13 LSU (off by 0/1)
13/14 to 13/19 Oklahoma State (off by 0/5)
16/16 to 12/17 Oklahoma (off by 1/4)
18/18 to 21/24 Nebraska (off by 3/6)
23/23 to 22/24 Wisconsin (off by 1)
25/25 to 26/27 Oregon State (off by 1/2)

They were right within 10 spots on 16 teams
11/12 to 3/3 FSU (off by 8/9)
9/9 to 16/18 Louisville (off by 7/9)
6/7 to 14/15 aTm (off by 8)
17/17 to 23/24 Michigan (off by 6/7)
21/21 to 11/12 UCLA (off by 9/10)

They were right with 15 spots on 18 teams
6/7 to 20/20 South Carolina (off by 13/14)
11/14 to 27/28 Notre Dame (off by 14/16)

They were right within 20 spots on 19 teams
15/15 to 32/35 Texas (off by 17/20)

and their biggest misses were:
5/5 to 30/30 Georgia (off by 25/25)
10/10 to 32/34 Florida (off by 22/24)
19/19 to 36/NR Boise State
20/20 to NR/NR TCU
22/22 to NR/NR Northwestern
24/24 to NR/NR USC