that Texans have long understood:

The University of Texas is historically the most overrated team in college football preseason polls.

Stassen went back to 1989 and compared the consensus preseason rankings to the final AP poll each season. If you finished better than your ranking, you got a + number. If you were unranked and finished 25th, you got a +1. If you finished worse than your preseason ranking, you got a - number. For example, a 25th rated team in the preseason who finished the season unranked would get a -1. If you finished exactly where you started, you got a 0.

UT has a cumulative total of -111 since 1989. 15 of the last 24 years, they have finished worse than where they started. No school finished worse more than that, although several were tied at 15.

Other consistently overrated teams: USC, Nebraska, Michigan & Oklahoma followed by Notre Dame, Florida St, Florida, Miami, Clemson, LSU & Tennessee.

Consistently underrated teams include Oregon, Boise St, Kansas St & Michigan St among others such as TCU, Cincinnati and BYU.

The "most overrated" list reads like a who's who of college football, which just goes to show the bias inherent in the system. Those with the power and tradition are trying to separate themselves from the rest of college football via the Power 5 and playoff structure.

The truth is that while these programs are great, they're not great as consistently as most pundits would have you believe.

So Helmet schools get hyped... shocking.

Baylor's helmet says RGIII on it.

The overrated list should be greater.

(05-20-2014 10:30 PM)CougarRed Wrote:  The "most overrated" list reads like a who's who of college football, which just goes to show the bias inherent in the system.

Indeed. Thanks to this analysis, now we see the bias inherent in the system.





(violence, bias, whatever)

Sparty is always underrated... Not saying we belonged in the National Title game last year but if we had Ohio State or Michigan as our name we would have been 2nd in the polls for sure.

(05-22-2014 10:58 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Sparty is always underrated... Not saying we belonged in the National Title game last year but if we had Ohio State or Michigan as our name we would have been 2nd in the polls for sure.

Not in hoops

(05-22-2014 10:58 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  Sparty is always underrated... Not saying we belonged in the National Title game last year but if we had Ohio State or Michigan as our name we would have been 2nd in the polls for sure.

Michigan State is probably the only Big Ten school that's consistently (or ever) underrated, but you're right. I think it's because MSU is overshadowed by UM and OSU in conference and ND OOC.