2016 Tennessee Preseason Poll Tracker

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I believe we've had someone track these polls before (daj maybe?) and I thought it would be cool to have a thread again this year where we track all of the preseason polls between now and September.

What else do we have to do, right? :)

Please post polls in this thread and I'll link the poll or their corresponding thread, if one exists.

Sporting News (13)
http://www.volnation.com/forum/tenn...ennessee-13-sporting-news-preseason-poll.html

Athlon (pre-spring) (8)
College Football's Pre-Spring 1-128 Team Rankings for 2016 | AthlonSports.com

ESPN Joe Schad (9)
ESPN’s Joe Schad Releases Preseason Top 25 For 2016 CFB Season | College Spun

Bleacher Report post-spring Top 25 (7)
Preseason College Football Rankings: Top 25 After Spring Practice | Bleacher Report

College Football News Post-Spring Rankings (3) [Sugar Bowl]
Post-Spring College Football Ranking Of All 128 Teams | College Football News
http://collegefootballnews.com/2016/2016-2017-post-spring-bowl-projections

Campus Insiders Post-Spring Top Five (3)

https://sports.yahoo.com/video/post-spring-top-5-college-134641502.html

ESPN Football Power Index (5)
http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings

Sports Illustrated Post Season Power Rankings (8)

http://www.si.com/college-football/2016/05/05/too-early-top-25-power-rankings

Fox News Sports Preseason Poll (8)
http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2016/...tate-clemson-top-our-latest-early-top-25.html

ESPN Way-Too-Early Top 25 (11)
http://espn.go.com/college-football...-tigers-move-post-spring-way-too-early-top-25

Massey Ratings (7)
http://www.masseyratings.com/rate.php?lg=cf&sub=FBS

Athlon Sports 2016 Top 25 (7)
http://athlonsports.com/college-football/athlon-sports-2016-preseason-college-football-top-25

FOX Sports Post-Spring Top 25 [Bruce Feldman] (8)
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...te-michigan-houston-oklahoma-tennessee-051616
 
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Freaks wanting the official pre-season poll rankings for this upcoming season & no post spring polls like the one you provided. There's not too many out there available yet but by June-July there will be quite a few more.
I think we can include both.
 
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I believe the low SOS# has more to do with the "Where" than the "Who".

We start with 7 straight bowlers from last season, then end the season with 5 straight toilets.

That #5 FPI bears it out, imo.

Whatcha think, JP?

Yeah, Malinois, it could be. That could be a big part of it.

The SEC West, who all naturally have to play each other, have some of the harder schedules in the country--almost all of them are in the top 10-12 toughest schedules, and they're all within the top 25, iirc.

The East, on the other hand, are significantly weaker in schedule for having primarily each other on tap. It doesn't pay (in SoS) to be in league with Vandy, Kentucky, USCe, and Mizzou, as those programs stand today.

So that's a big part of it, too. It's a reflection of how the East is down relative to the West in recent years.
 
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Seen on PFS...iirc, ESPN has Vols ranked 35th on SOS.


We'll have a Top 15 SOS after the Bama game, then it will nosedive after Tn Tech.

By that time we'll be a Top 10 team in the polls and SOS wont matter. But the flip side is if we get to
November and we're 6-2 or 5-3 then SOS will be the least of our problems.
 
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#8 in the Fox News Sports preseason poll:

Alabama, Florida State, Clemson top our latest (early) Top 25 | Fox News

8. Tennessee

It's now or never for fourth-year coach Butch Jones' Vols, who return 17 starters from a team that won their last six games in 2015. New DC Bob Shoop, formerly of Penn State, inherits top-flight players like DE Derek Barnett, LB Jalen Reeves-Maybin and CB Cam Sutton. Meanwhile, QB Josh Dobbs is back to lead an offense highlighted by the tailback tandem of Jalen Hurd and Alvin Kamara.
 
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It's beginning to look like most early polls have us in the top 10. That's good! I said around #8 or #9 myself a few weeks back.
 

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