I still don't understand the initial top 25

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The AP poll is an average of where the voters put different teams. This is the chart of individual votes from pre-week 1. There is inherent bias amongst the voters. Some voters had us as high as eight. Some voters totally omitted us from their ballot. Brett McMurphy has ALWAYS shown anti-Tennessee bias in his ballots. He had us ranked at 19. The AP is simply a popularity contest run by media members,


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LegionnaireOfTheMiserable said:
We lost a lot from the team last year. It’s as simple as that.

We can complain about that at year’s end if we go 9-3 or better.
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Yep. Lost a ton of talented players. No one knows what the replacements can do especially at QB and WR. Not sure what folks are expecting under the circumstances. And as others point out, what does it matter at the start of a season? UT will earn the ranking it deserves based on the results of the season. All this paranoia is unwarranted and much ado about nothing.
 
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We also know that even if Alabama was 0 and 9 the AP would still have them ranked in the top 10. They just lost to an unranked team that was 2 and 10 last year. Pitifully, I'd be shocked if they dropped more than one rank...
 
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Preseason rankings are always awful lol. They’re not some huge conspiracy. They’re just done for clicks. Almost every damn team has a reason to doubt where they’re ranked in the preseason polls. And even then, denying that this team had some question marks going into this season is just being a revisionist.

If we beat Georgia in a couple of weeks, the rankings will adjust accordingly.
 
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volfan2024 said:
It seems they just put us at #24 putting the screws to us early on. Yeah?
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Sports writers and others are lazy. They give a gloss over review. Even one of the inside basketball guys forUT gave a horrible report. His review missed key players when that was supposed tobe his focus. National guys have no chance especially if they dont take time to do the work.
We are about 13 right now
 
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DarkMode said:
We also know that even if Alabama was 0 and 9 the AP would still have them ranked in the top 10. They just lost to an unranked team that was 2 and 10 last year. Pitifully, I'd be shocked if they dropped more than one rank...
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AP voters still view Alabama with Saban leading the program and that is the problem. I know they have a roster full of talented players but even the casual CFB fan could see a significant drop off in bama’s level of play last season. They lost to Vandy, a bad Oklahoma team, and an average at best Michigan squad. The UGA win carried them in high regard with the media even though bama got worse down the stretch.
Bama may end up getting to 9-3 if they figure a lot of things out, but I’m skeptical of that happening. You could argue that FSU was the sixth toughest game on this years schedule for the tide.
 
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Tman44 said:
The AP poll is an average of where the voters put different teams. This is the chart of individual votes from pre-week 1. There is inherent bias amongst the voters. Some voters had us as high as eight. Some voters totally omitted us from their ballot. Brett McMurphy has ALWAYS shown anti-Tennessee bias in his ballots. He had us ranked at 19. The AP is simply a popularity contest run by media members,


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This 💯 percent spot on truth....it's popularity contest some voters wld vote the team high b/c they like the coach or the team has history being good.....just win rankings take care themselves.....
Go Vols .....
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I thought a 20-25 preseason ranking was quite fair to us, given the lost personnel and razor thin WR room.

Just win baby, it will take care of itself.
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agree, I had us at 22 myself because no one knew what JA was going to be like in this offense. I think we move to around 18 with a win vs ETSU.
 
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