(09-02-2017 11:39 PM)shere khan Wrote: ESPN scammed us again. No way in hell FSU is number 3.
Wait ... you are saying that a pre-season poll is
not based on solid evidence.
Whew, damn good thing I was sitting down there, I might have collapsed in shock from the news.
After this week, it looks like the headline could be extended to "SEC dominance over the ACC", but that too will get a second test in the last week of the regular season.
The pre-season poll is always a crap shoot, given that the best programs from the year before typically lose a lot of one or both sides of the line, so the voters are guesstimating how well they will reload.
Here's two other pieces of football lore to go along with it ... the first game is not always representative of the whole season, and sometimes defenses develop faster than offenses. While FSU will take a tumble in the polls next week, until we have final word on how serious the injury is, we can't rule out FSU climbing their way back up over the season. They might even get a shot at a rematch.
(09-03-2017 03:18 AM)stever20 Wrote: Texas you can see being ranked with the excitement of a new coach who had done well in Houston before very quickly.
The other 24 teams were all good last year. Doesn't have a damn thing to do with markets.
Well, Texas being easy to hype is partly to do with markets, but that still makes is only 4% of the poll