The weekly shuffle (polls)

[Sirhornsalot]

Last week's Coaches Poll

1 Florida State (44) 5-0 1505
2 Auburn (16) 5-0 1477
3 Baylor (1) 5-0 1372
4 Ole Miss 5-0 1308
5 Notre Dame 5-0 1269
6 Mississippi State 5-0 1237
7 Alabama 4-1 1065
8 Michigan State 4-1 1062
9 Oklahoma 4-1 929
10 Georgia 4-1 898
11 Oregon 4-1 897
12 TCU 4-0 865
13 Arizona 5-0 743
14 Texas A&M 5-1 706
15 Ohio State 4-1 645
16 Kansas State 4-1 567
17 UCLA 4-1 483
18 Oklahoma State 4-1 479
19 East Carolina 4-1 451
20 Arizona State 4-1 354
21 Nebraska 5-1 261
22 Stanford 3-2 241
23 Georgia Tech 5-0 240
24 Missouri 4-1 182
25 Clemson 3-2 138

• Dropped from rankings: LSU 15, Wisconsin 16, BYU 19, USC 20

1. Will the coaches move Ole Miss past Baylor?

2. Will Bama drop with an unimpressive win over unranked Arkiesaw?

3. Will Notre Dame drop with an unimpressive win over North Carolina?

4. How far will TCU be dropped?

5. Will Mizzou finally drop from the poll? lol

6. How will far will aggy drop? They lagged in swag

 

[joeywa]

Last week's Coaches Poll

1 Florida State (44) 5-0 1505
2 Auburn (16) 5-0 1477
3 Baylor (1) 5-0 1372
4 Ole Miss 5-0 13085 Notre Dame 5-0 1269


6 Mississippi State 5-0 1237
7 Alabama 4-1 1065
8 Michigan State 4-1 1062
9 Oklahoma 4-1 929
10 Georgia 4-1 898
11 Oregon 4-1 897
12 TCU 4-0 865
13 Arizona 5-0 743
14 Texas A&M 5-1 706
15 Ohio State 4-1 645
16 Kansas State 4-1 567
17 UCLA 4-1 483
18 Oklahoma State 4-1 479
19 East Carolina 4-1 451
20 Arizona State 4-1 354
21 Nebraska 5-1 261
22 Stanford 3-2 241
23 Georgia Tech 5-0 240
24 Missouri 4-1 182
25 Clemson 3-2 138

• Dropped from rankings: LSU 15, Wisconsin 16, BYU 19, USC 20

1. Will the coaches move Ole Miss past Baylor?

2. Will Bama drop with an unimpressive win over unranked Arkiesaw?

3. Will Notre Dame drop with an unimpressive win over North Carolina?

4. How far will TCU be dropped?

5. Will Mizzou finally drop from the poll? lol

6. How will far will aggy drop? They lagged in swag

1. Yes-SEC
2. No-SEC
3. Yes-Not SEC
4. Drop to 16
5. Yes-Although SEC, this will be the pollster's way of 'proving' there's no SEC bias
6. Drop to 19

And LSU gets back into the poll.

 

[Matt Cotcher]

I had witty responses and then realized you are talking Coaches' Poll. I'll withhold snarky comments for the AP junk poll.

 

[joeywa]

I was pretty close. Lol.

USA Today Poll

RK TEAM RECORD PTS

1 Mississippi State (26) 6-0 1490

2 Florida State (31) 6-0 1489

3 Ole Miss (5) 6-0 1436

4 Baylor 6-0 1392

5 Notre Dame 6-0 1292

6 Michigan State 5-1 1129

7 Alabama 5-1 1121

8 Auburn 5-1 1111

9 Oregon 5-1 1017

10 Georgia 5-1 1013

11 Oklahoma 5-1 1005

12 TCU 4-1 824

13 Ohio State 4-1 737

14 Kansas State 4-1 710

15 Oklahoma State 5-1 610

16 East Carolina 5-1 518

17 Arizona 5-1 502

18 Arizona State 4-1 471

19 Nebraska 5-1 433

20 Stanford 4-2 344

21 Texas A&M 5-2 269

22 Clemson 4-2 244

23 Utah 4-1 161

24 Marshall 6-0 153

25 USC 4-2 125

Dropped from rankings: UCLA 17, Georgia Tech 23, Missouri 24

Others receiving votes: UCLA 116, LSU 80, Minnesota 78, Duke 70, Washington 70, Kentucky 37, Wisconsin 34, West Virginia 17, Iowa 15, Georgia Tech 14, Oregon State 10, Colorado State 5, Missouri 5, BYU 2, Rutgers 1

 

[utisdabomb12]

So Aggy is still ranked when their best win is against a 3-3 South Carolina team, while they've been blown out in the two real games they've played. Makes a lot of sense. 

 

[Sirhornsalot]

So Aggy is still ranked when their best win is against a 3-3 South Carolina team, while they've been blown out in the two real games they've played. Makes a lot of sense. 

Breaking up is hard to do.

 

[CCausey11]

So Aggy is still ranked when their best win is against a 3-3 South Carolina team, while they've been blown out in the two real games they've played. Makes a lot of sense. 

After they get their ass kicked at Alabama next week they will say good bye to the rankings

 

[utisdabomb12]

How weird is it to see Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Baylor in the top 5? That's why college football is so great, it's unpredictable. 

I will say that I thought both Ole Miss and Mississippi State were going to be good teams this year. In the preseason I even said I wouldn't be surprised if one of the Miss. schools challenges for the West. 

 

[Sejjr]

"There's the AFC, the NFC, and the SEC. Then everybody else." I actually heard an announcer say that the other day during a game. SO stupid.

 

[Sirhornsalot]

How weird is it to see Ole Miss, Mississippi State, and Baylor in the top 5? That's why college football is so great, it's unpredictable. 

I will say that I thought both Ole Miss and Mississippi State were going to be good teams this year. In the preseason I even said I wouldn't be surprised if one of the Miss. schools challenges for the West. 

Ole Miss had a pretty incredible recruiting class a couple years ago. It's showing up big time now.

Personally, I like seeing new faces in the top 5/10. Makes things interesting and you gotta feel good for both those Mississippi schools. They've been kicked around in the SEC for so long.

 

[utisdabomb12]

Ole Miss had a pretty incredible recruiting class a couple years ago. It's showing up big time now.

Personally, I like seeing new faces in the top 5/10. Makes things interesting and you gotta feel good for both those Mississippi schools. They've been kicked around in the SEC for so long.

Ole Miss has been a pretty good team for a couple years, they are now just figuring out how to win games. The last two years they should have beaten Aggy, but hadn't figured out how to close out games. 

Actually, Ole Miss reminds me a lot of the Longhorns and Arkansas right now. Texas has been good enough to win games against UCLA and Oklahoma. Other then the BYU game I really don't think we've played horribly. Just some bad mistakes at timely situations and inconsistent play from some younger guys at certain positions. If you watch Ole Miss from a couple years ago there are a lot of parallels.  The same for Arkansas. Bielema will have that team challenging for the West in a couple years. They are a pretty good team but haven't figured out how to win. 

I think a lot of people get caught up entirely too much in records for "developing" teams. I knew a couple years ago Ole Miss and Miss. State were going to be pretty good teams based on the product on the field. I think the comparison between Arkansas and A&M is a very good example of how records are sometimes deceiving. Arkansas looks worse in terms of the record, but I bet in two years Arkansas will be a better team from what I've seen on the field. Records aren't always indicative of how a team is progressing. It's why I never bought the A&M hype even after the SC game. Their offense and defense have regressed since game 1 even though they won games. Unless you have multiple recruiting classes like Bama, winning is a process in the long-term. You have to progress game to game (even if that may conflict with winning games in the short-term). 

 

[Bevostuntdouble]

Ole Miss had a pretty incredible recruiting class a couple years ago. It's showing up big time now.

Personally, I like seeing new faces in the top 5/10. Makes things interesting and you gotta feel good for both those Mississippi schools. They've been kicked around in the SEC for so long.

The rise of Miss St and Ole Miss signifies the fall of the rest of the division... I can be happy with that. Not only do both of those teams look good Bama LSU and the rest also look terrible. 

 

[Bevostuntdouble]

1. Yes-SEC
2. No-SEC
3. Yes-Not SEC
4. Drop to 16
5. Yes-Although SEC, this will be the pollster's way of 'proving' there's no SEC bias
6. Drop to 19

And LSU gets back into the poll.

Accurate assessment.