townhallsavoy 2 Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 • Despite producing two of the last four BCS national champions, the SEC is still underrated when it comes to the preseason AP poll. Seven of the nine SEC teams included in the survey scored in the black. In fact, SEC teams improved their ranking 49 percent of the time. Arkansas and Auburn were the most underrated teams; Tennessee and Florida were the most overrated. The Volunteers were ranked in each of the previous 10 preseason AP polls, but improved their ranking only three times by season's end. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/preview07/co...&id=2980407 We're the second most underrated team in the SEC in the last ten years...even with the overhype of 2003. All of these silly articles are making me wonder how bad it's going to get ten years from now. Will we see articles in June that discuss each starting Quarterback's favorite morning cereal? Will Ivan Maisel be writing articles in July about head coaches' favorite childhood bedtime stories? Are we going to comparing the size of a player's shoe with his overall success on the field? Maybe a reality show will come out that details the daily lives of a football team... OH WAIT TWO-A-DAYS. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthLink02 8 Posted August 19, 2007 Share Posted August 19, 2007 Most overrated teams in last 10 years: 1. Florida State (-63) 2. Tennessee (-58) 3. Washington (-42) 4. Miami (-35) T5. Ohio State (-34) T5. Nebraska (-34) 7. Florida (-33 1/2) 8. Michigan (-25) 9. Texas (-24) 10. Clemson (-22) Most underrated teams in last 10 years: 1. Washington St. (+51) 2. Boise State (+48) 3. Oregon (+32 1/2) 4. Arkansas (+26) 5. Wisconsin (+23) 6. Louisville (+20) 7. TCU (+18) T8. Boston College (+17) T8. Iowa (+17) T8. Maryland (+17) Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/#findComment-396640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaReAgLe83 0 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 Found a site that has past AP polls...if I figured it right, is +16. 2003 took a big ol' chunk out of that number. Poll History Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/#findComment-396787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aucanucktiger 1,989 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 A major problem w/ college football voting is even the pollsters themselves don't agree on what they're voting for. It's absolutely moronic. Some voters swear up & down they're supposed to predict from week to week who they think will FINISH THE SEASON ranked highest, so they argue the SEC will knock each other off (which we all know is true). How many have heard that w/ us already this year, show of hands? Other voters argue they're supposed to vote for the teams as straight up who's the best, in descending order, each week. Until college football gets its HOOIA, polls based on voting will continue to be the controversy the sportswriters love and the fans hate. BTW, w/ all the Notre Dame bashing on this board you think ND would be SOMEWHERE in the overrated list, right? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/#findComment-397123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 22,006 Posted August 21, 2007 Share Posted August 21, 2007 BTW, w/ all the Notre Dame bashing on this board you think ND would be SOMEWHERE in the overrated list, right? I went back and calculated their score on this using his same criteria. They aren't that far from the top ten. Here's the breakdown: 1997 Started 11th / Finished NR (which counts as 26th for the purposes of his scoring) (-15) 1998 22nd / 22nd (-) 1999 18th / NR (-8) 2000 23rd / 15th (+8) 2001 18th / NR (-8) 2002 NR / 17th (+9) 2003 20th / NR (-6) 2004 NR / NR (-) 2005 NR / 9th (+17) 2006 2nd / 17th (-15) 2005 is a little skewed in that they started off unranked, then jumped to #20 in Week One by beating 23rd ranked Pittsburgh. So they quickly ascended the polls from unranked status. When they beat 3rd ranked Michigan the very next week, they jumped 10 spots. After dropping to 16th when they lost to Michigan State the next week, they climbed right back to 12th with wins over hapless Washington and a bad Purdue club, then rose three spots to 9th during their off week. They didn't drop after losing a close one to top ranked USC and stayed in the top ten the rest of the season, even remaining there after getting drilled by Ohio State in the Fiesta. So they are frequently overrated and it would be even moreso had the press not gone gaga over Weiss after the Michigan game. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/#findComment-397155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcgufcm 4,109 Posted August 22, 2007 Share Posted August 22, 2007 so this is a side question, but what do you guys think they should be voting on? i'm of the persuasion that it should be a combination of "could this team beat this team" and "what have you really done." the start of the year (while i don't think there should be official polls at the start of the year) would be a straight up ranking of how good teams are (no predictions necessary) in descending order; the following polls would penalize teams for losing, boost teams for beating better teams, and use the "who would win this game" system as a tie breaker. thoughts? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39543-the-articles-are-heating-up/#findComment-397474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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