SI Preseason Poll

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GenNeyland9

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1. USC
2. TEXAS
3. FLORIDA
4. MICHIGAN
5. TENNESSEE
6. MIAMI
7. OKLAHOMA
8. OHIO STATE
9. VIRGINIA TECH
10. GEORGIA
 
#2
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Dont pay attention to polls until about week 6.
 
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The main reason I posted it is b/c I thought Florida starting off at no. 3 was a little ambitious.

Also unusual that UGA is in the top 10 but LSU is not.
 
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Florida at #3 is just flat out psycho!? There's no way to justify that except to say that it's a publicity stunt to get people talking about the poll . . . which I guess worked. :ninja:
 
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Diffrent sites have diffrent opinons. Really none of the polls that have came out mean anything so it doesn't really matter.
 
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Agree with you that we shouldn't pay attention to early polls, especially the Sports Illustrated poll.

Remember when it picked Oregon State no. 1 in 2001?
 
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Originally posted by GenNeyland9@Aug 9, 2005 1:01 PM
1. USC
2. TEXAS
3. FLORIDA
4. MICHIGAN
5. TENNESSEE
6. MIAMI
7. OKLAHOMA
8. OHIO STATE
9. VIRGINIA TECH
10. GEORGIA
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They're obviously drunk again over there....
 
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That's such a stretch on the Florida pick.

It's more than most of the realistic Florida fans are shooting for. Most of the ones I know seem to think a 9 win season would be a reasonable effort. Of course, the more avid believe Meyer will win them all.

I just don't understand how you can project this from a 5 losss team just because they made a coaching change.
 
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Yeah All my friends in florida are just hoping for a 9 or 10 win season. None of them are really predicting national title run this year. But they are saying that they are just one year away.
 
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Well now, why can't Florida start at Number three? They get Tennessee and FSU at home this year. Granted, they have to survive the as-usual tough SEC, but if they get past UT in game three, it is not at all inconceivable that they would win out.

Re: the comment that it was a five loss team last year, this is true. But, with the more favorable schedule of games at Florida and hopefully a more physically prepared team, I think Florida has as much of a claim to a top five spot as anybody in the country, once you get past USC and arguably Texas (who I am still not convinced about). :matrix:
 
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Yeah I really feel that the sec east is a toss up like it always is. But it looks like its back to old with tennessee and florida at the top. don't count out Georgia, cause they can sneak in and take the east as well. But why the hell dont tennessee and florida move there game back later in the year? when they did it in 2001 it was a hell of a game. Idk but playing this early in the year just deystroys the others teams chances of going to the NC game.
 
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Originally posted by lawgator1@Aug 9, 2005 2:41 PM
I think Florida has as much of a claim to a top five spot as anybody in the country, once you get past USC and arguably Texas (who I am still not convinced about). :matrix:
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It's fine if you want to tell us that your team will be good, but don't tell me that a team that lost 5 games last year and is undergoing a coaching change should be in ANYBODY'S top 5. You've got to at least win a couple of games before you start saying you're top 5 again.
 
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I agree 2345, but isn't it more the SEC front office's fault? Don't they determine when who plays each other, then we are to fill the holes with non-conf. games? They also screwed up the 'bama game, putting it on the 4th Saturday... maybe they need to reevaluate the scheduling set up?
 
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Originally posted by lawgator1@Aug 9, 2005 1:41 PM
Well now, why can't Florida start at Number three?  They get Tennessee and FSU at home this year.  Granted, they have to survive the as-usual tough SEC, but if they get past UT in game three, it is not at all inconceivable that they would win out.

Re: the comment that it was a five loss team last year, this is true.  But, with the more favorable schedule of games at Florida and hopefully a more physically prepared team, I think Florida has as much of a claim to a top five spot as anybody in the country, once you get past USC and arguably Texas (who I am still not convinced about). :matrix:
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Well, in 2003 you also had UT and F$U at home and lost 5 games that season too. Most people find it a stretch that a 7-5 team suddenly jumps to #3 in the country. I sure would even if it was the Vols.
 
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Coaching is what makes a team though. They have the pieces to be a hell of a good team. But do they have the coaching and right mixture of talent to make them that team, well will have to wait and see.
 
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Originally posted by vols2345@Aug 9, 2005 1:56 PM
They have the pieces to be a hell of a good team.
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That's debatable. One key component that's missing is depth. Leak has the potential to be good, but will Meyer's new scheme be too much of a change? What happens if/when people start to get hurt with the increased demand for QB mobility? Or, what happens if/when this whole "revolutionary" offensive style just fails miserably against SEC defensive competition?

The idea of putting a team with Florida's lack of recent success (including 5 loss seasons and a loss to MISSISSIPPI STATE, FOR GOD'S SAKE!) at #3 is just plain ridiculous.
 
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Originally posted by kiddiedoc@Aug 9, 2005 2:28 PM

The idea of putting a team with Florida's lack of recent success (including 5 loss seasons and a loss to MISSISSIPPI STATE, FOR GOD'S SAKE!) at #3 is just plain ridiculous.
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Yeah, even if Florida's talent and team is worthy of being no. 3, you just don't take a team that went 7-5 and lost their bowl game the year before (didn't even finish in top 25) and then jump them up that high to start the very next season. That might be unprecedented.
 
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Florida is like Bama, they will choke when its go time.....Florida's ranking will change after we come into the Swamp and take it from them! GO VOLS!!!!
 
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Originally posted by #10_Ainge_#10@Aug 9, 2005 3:43 PM
Florida is like Bama, they will choke when its go time.....Florida's ranking will change after we come into the Swamp and take it from them!  GO VOLS!!!!
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This ranking is important...why? :)

The more useless rankings FL gets like this, the more these unrealistic FL fans will be devistated when reality comes knocking. Plus, the more undeserved media adulation they get, the bigger the feather in UTs cap when they crush them. Because... Ya know... "We WILL crush them!"
 
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I agree, we need all the "style" points we can get. I hope UF is ranked #1 when we beat them and then I hope LSU takes over the #1 spot the next week! Then there will be no doubt in anyone's mind about the Vols.
 
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First of all, I have to address one thing:

Is Georgia overrated or what? I mean, how on Earth did they finish like 6 or 7 spots ahead of us on last year's polls? We beat them, on the road, win the division, do much better in a bigger bowl game against a tougher opponnent (Wisconsin was on a bad slide and the Dawgs still barely beat them) and they finish top 10 while we don't even come close. I think Mark Richt is a great coach and all, still runs an impressive team, but voters give Georgia the benefit of the doubt more than any team in the country.

As for Florida's ranking, don't worry about it, this isn't coming from a poll that matters. Even if they are ranked real high, and Meyer doesn't execute, they will slip. Although what 2345 said is correct. Even though they lost talent, especially on defense, they still have the pieces needed to win the East if Meyer can work things out well enough. We will all have to wait and see.
 
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It's nuts to have 3 teams from the SEC east in the Top 10. Since we all play each other, everyone has a great shot for at least one loss. If one of the teams beats the other two, than one of those two will have at least two losses and thus won't be in the top ten.

If preseason polls are supposed to be early best guesses of how teams will finish, it's nuts to put 3 teams that all play each other in the top 10. If the poll isn't an early prediction - what use is it?
 
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Originally posted by volinbham@Aug 9, 2005 1:20 PM
It's nuts to have 3 teams from the SEC east in the Top 10.  Since we all play each other, everyone has a great shot for at least one loss.  If one of the teams beats the other two, than one of those two will have at least two losses and thus won't be in the top ten.

If preseason polls are supposed to be early best guesses of how teams will finish, it's nuts to put 3 teams that all play each other in the top 10.  If the poll isn't an early prediction - what use is it?
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I honestly think it's crazy to have Florida and Georgia as top 10.
 
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Originally posted by milohimself@Aug 9, 2005 4:19 PM
First of all, I have to address one thing:

Is Georgia overrated or what? I mean, how on Earth did they finish like 6 or 7 spots ahead of us on last year's polls? We beat them, on the road, win the division, do much better in a bigger bowl game against a tougher opponnent (Wisconsin was on a bad slide and the Dawgs still barely beat them) and they finish top 10 while we don't even come close. I think Mark Richt is a great coach and all, still runs an impressive team, but voters give Georgia the benefit of the doubt more than any team in the country.


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Well said. This just shows how subjective and inherently (Biased?) flawed polls are. And it will NEVER, EVER get any better until a playoff system. Until then, NCAA Football is a prostitution ring.
 
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Originally posted by lawgator1@Aug 9, 2005 1:41 PM
Well now, why can't Florida start at Number three?  They get Tennessee and FSU at home this year.  Granted, they have to survive the as-usual tough SEC, but if they get past UT in game three, it is not at all inconceivable that they would win out.

Re: the comment that it was a five loss team last year, this is true.  But, with the more favorable schedule of games at Florida and hopefully a more physically prepared team, I think Florida has as much of a claim to a top five spot as anybody in the country, once you get past USC and arguably Texas (who I am still not convinced about). :matrix:
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Your premise seems to be based on a belief that you will beat Tennessee.

I find that unlikely for the following reasons:

1. You couldn't last year with a more experienced QB while we played freshmen.

2. Your passing attack couldn't put the game away against a very suspect UT secondary. You won't have that luxury this year.

3. Meyer's offense is obviously designed to put up big numbers agains weak defenses. There are only one or two really weak defenses in the SEC. UT arguably could have the best overall, and without argument, will have the best front 7 in the SEC, possibly the nation.

4. The UT offense was stacked to the run last year to afford growth for the new QBs. This year, an experience QB will be behind center and the running game will be even more deadly, barring injury.

5. Even at his best, Leak is not an option QB. And he's always a little tight when playing us, for some reason.

Now, if you ignore all of that and go on the premise that Florida will beat UT, then yes, they should be in the top 5.

:no:
 
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