Comments on: Pre-Season Select 17

By: afrankangle

afrankangle — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:17:04 +0000

Little Pope,
Or is the question what has anyone done to be #1?

By: LittlePope

LittlePope — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:16:41 +0000

What has anyone done to deserve to move ahead of them? Are there games being played I am missing?

By: afrankangle

afrankangle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:35:52 +0000

Brett,
Sorry to see that you give so little credit to playing and winning games.

By: Brett Kincaid

Brett Kincaid — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:52:35 +0000

Show up to camp

By: afrankangle

afrankangle — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:37:19 +0000

One question … what has Florida done this season to deserve #1?

By: JUJU

JUJU — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:46:07 +0000

all i know is that we’re lucky Spurrier (or his gopher) does not get a vote in the poll…

Signed,

Jesus from Florida

By: Adam Butler

Adam Butler — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:10:29 +0000

I think you a reading too much into it. There were a small number of pollsters. Georgia and Geaorgia Tech were ranked 15th and 17th, respectively. One person could have made the difference. I personally think both teams are going to be very good.

By: Brett Kincaid

Brett Kincaid — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:58:58 +0000

You bring up (in a round-about way) an interesting point. Well, two actually.

1) What criteria do pollsters use? I think all 7 of us use the “best team” model. Others try to predict how they will finish. Like Hall of Fame voters, it seems everyone has a unique way to look at it. For me, though, there really is only one way: Who has a better team. In a head-to-head matchup, who would win.

2) Should conference rank determine overall rank? I suggest that the Big XII, SEC, and Pac-10 are deep enough to justify those teams loading the polls. My guess is the fifth-best SEC team could beat the third-best Big 10 team (or best Big East team) on a neutral field.

By: Randle Reece

Randle Reece — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:49:29 +0000

The idea of a top 17 is inspired. In the world of arbitrary cutoffs, yours is a nice curveball.

Ohio State-Penn State at 6-7 is plausible but maybe a little farfetched considering that they play in mid-November. They did, though, finish 8-9 in last year’s AP final poll. You expect at team no better than third in the SEC West to be in the top 11. But maybe that’s the way college football is these days. Oklahoma State, 8th ranked and third in the Big 12 South. Cal, 13th and third in the Pac 10. Georgia, 15th and fifth in the SEC.

Last year, all of the top 12 ranked teams finished at least second in their conferences. Big 12 had a three-way tie for first; all three ended in the top 12. The lowest finishers in the top 17 of the AP poll were Ole Miss (fourth in the SEC) and Oklahoma State (tied for fourth in the Big 12, and really smashed in its bowl game).

I can see four SEC teams in the top 17, not five.

By: jstrom

jstrom — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:29:19 +0000

I think it’s amazing but standard and predictable for people to pick programs. However, to think, after last year’s head to head matchup and results of Ga Tech over thUGA, any panel of 5 could put thUGA over Ga Tech is taking it to another level. Stafford and Moreno are gone, a new QB (who, by the way, is struggling somewhat w/ INTs in practices) while Tech brings back their primary players in an offense that’s in only it’s second year (players should get better after the first year of a system). I don’t get it.