26 Miami (Fla.) 120
27 Wisconsin 82
28 Utah 73
28 Boise State 73
30 Washington State 47
31 Texas A&M 37
32 Texas 34
32 Arkansas 34
34 Northwestern 31
35 Navy 30
36 Mississippi State 19
37 San Diego State 18
38 Nebraska 17
38 Auburn 17
40 Western Kentucky 11
41 Pittsburgh 8
42 Brigham Young 6
43 Appalachian State 4
44 Duke 3
45 Arizona 2
45 Marshall 2
45 Toledo 2
45 South Florida 2
49 Memphis 1
49 Indiana 1
49 Northern Illinois 1.

Ole Miss also lost their best WR in Treadwell to the NFL didn't they?
The offense may still be good...but not as explosive as last year. They may have to run more to make up for it.

Ole Miss overrated. UTK may be underrated.

(08-04-2016 11:55 AM)cbhstiger Wrote:  Anyone else surprised at how much love Navy is getting? I also thought USF would get some more votes.

Ya, 30 votes for them is crazy high IMO... Oh well, preseason polls are particularly worthless in college football.

who the F gave TN a 1st place vote?

(08-04-2016 01:18 PM)fsquid Wrote:  who the F gave TN a 1st place vote?

Probably Fuente.

(08-04-2016 11:38 AM)cbhstiger Wrote:  Yep. It's actually a really good advantage to start out with even just one vote. If we can get to 3-0 and some of the higher ranked teams start losing then our votes should steadily increase.

Top 25 match up in Oxford on October 1st?

(08-04-2016 01:31 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:38 AM)cbhstiger Wrote:  Yep. It's actually a really good advantage to start out with even just one vote. If we can get to 3-0 and some of the higher ranked teams start losing then our votes should steadily increase.

Top 25 match up in Oxford on October 1st?

Possibly, I'm not sure we will garner enough votes to be ranked at that point though. If we do beat Ole Miss and are sitting 4-0 I think we would be ranked. Ole Miss plays Florida State and Alabama in its first 3 games, so I don't know if they will even be ranked when we play them if they lose both of those.

(08-04-2016 01:34 PM)cbhstiger Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 01:31 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:38 AM)cbhstiger Wrote:  Yep. It's actually a really good advantage to start out with even just one vote. If we can get to 3-0 and some of the higher ranked teams start losing then our votes should steadily increase.

Top 25 match up in Oxford on October 1st?

Possibly, I'm not sure we will garner enough votes to be ranked at that point though. If we do beat Ole Miss and are sitting 4-0 I think we would be ranked. Ole Miss plays Florida State and Alabama in its first 3 games, so I don't know if they will even be ranked when we play them if they lose both of those.

Yeah, after I posted that, I took a look at OM's schedule. BRUTAL!

They may be 1-3 by the time we play them. Better chance that we'll be 3-0 and ranked, with them unranked...

good to see tennessee and ole miss up there near the top.

(08-04-2016 01:36 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 01:34 PM)cbhstiger Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 01:31 PM)oruvoice Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 11:38 AM)cbhstiger Wrote:  Yep. It's actually a really good advantage to start out with even just one vote. If we can get to 3-0 and some of the higher ranked teams start losing then our votes should steadily increase.

Top 25 match up in Oxford on October 1st?

Possibly, I'm not sure we will garner enough votes to be ranked at that point though. If we do beat Ole Miss and are sitting 4-0 I think we would be ranked. Ole Miss plays Florida State and Alabama in its first 3 games, so I don't know if they will even be ranked when we play them if they lose both of those.

Yeah, after I posted that, I took a look at OM's schedule. BRUTAL!

They may be 1-3 by the time we play them. Better chance that we'll be 3-0 and ranked, with them unranked...

Yes it is. I mean they did beat Alabama last year before we played them, but I don't think they are as good as last year and Bama is really good again lol. Florida State is also going to be great, so I can see them losing both.

Memphis might be ranked at 3-0 but I highly doubt it, we would have to see a whole lot of teams lose some games that are ahead of us, but it certainly is possible.

Ole Miss will almost certainly not be ranked by 1 Oct.

Despite the nation's ladyboner for the SEC West, I can't see a team with two losses still ranked that early in the season.

If Memphis is 3-0 on 1 Oct, I still can't see us being ranked either. FCS and Kansas will register on absolutely nobody's radar and we had a gutsy win at a good Bowling Green team last year that absolutely nobody cared about.

We'll be RV but probably outside the T30.

College football polls are as worthless as a helmet on a Kamikaze pilot. Just ONE of the things which make the game a joke ... along with all the cheating and selective rules enforcement.

SEC
1) Alabama
6) LSU
10) Tennessee
12) Ole Miss
16) Georgia
25) Florida

PAC 12
7) Stanford
17) Southern Cal
18) Washington
22) Oregon
24) UCLA

ACC
2) Clemson
4) Florida State
20) North Carolina
23) Louisville

Big 12
3) Oklahoma
14) TCU
19) Oklahoma State
21) Baylor

Big 10
5) Ohio State
8) Michigan
11) Michigan State
15) Iowa

Others
9) Notre Dame
13) Houston

(08-04-2016 02:48 PM)mem-x Wrote:  College football polls are as worthless as a helmet on a Kamikaze pilot. Just ONE of the things which make the game a joke ... along with all the cheating and selective rules enforcement.

They aren't "worthless" because the initial poll sets the narrative for "good" wins early in the season. Teams can lose a few games early and still remain ranked or teams that are unranked can drop an early game (even close) and not sniff the top 25 for weeks.

I really wish all polls would wait for four weeks until they were released.

Amen. Polls shouldn't be a thing until a few weeks into the season.

(08-04-2016 02:55 PM)salukiblue Wrote:  

(08-04-2016 02:48 PM)mem-x Wrote:  College football polls are as worthless as a helmet on a Kamikaze pilot. Just ONE of the things which make the game a joke ... along with all the cheating and selective rules enforcement.

They aren't "worthless" because the initial poll sets the narrative for "good" wins early in the season. Teams can lose a few games early and still remain ranked or teams that are unranked can drop an early game (even close) and not sniff the top 25 for weeks.

I really wish all polls would wait for four weeks until they were released.

I believe that is what the Harris Poll tried to do.

Have we ever had a vote to start the season?

Probably.

(08-04-2016 04:12 PM)Timmy989 Wrote:  Have we ever had a vote to start the season?

Yes. I can't remember when or how many though.