AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION FRIDAY: THE PRESEASON COACHES' POLL IS OPEN FOR HECKLING

Kentucky getting 9 votes. Even Rich Brooks acknowledges this is bullshit.

I see the coaches finally wised up and took Clemson out of the polls after last year’s season-opening debacle. Fortunately it looks like Ole Miss has taken on the mantle of “Team Most Likely To Be Massively Overrated And Pointed At As An Example Of Why It’s Absolutely Ridiculous To Have Preseason Polls”.

Wating for the GT meltdown that UGA is ranked 2 spots above them. Waiting. . . waiting. . .

Virginia Tech is overrrrrrrr-rated.

Sorry to dissapoint Britches…everyone knows preseason polls are crap anyhow.

I predict that VT will be this year’s Clemson. They will lose a couple of games early and everyone will say that because of this, the ACC totally sucks.

I wonder who the other three coaches were who voted for Texas.

Ole Miss at #10!!!? Hahahahahahahaha Colonel Reb is cryin, indeed.

GT at 15? Its poooossible, but I just dont see us as being there legitly right now. We got stomped by LSU, and sortof got lucky in the UGA game. We are top 25 fo sho tho.

Cal feels high to me. Very high. I cant name one Cal player.

WHOA! VaTech at #7? Hoe please!

God knows it won’t happen again for a looooooong while, but I am thrilled to see the Dawgs down low. The #1 wasn’t too kind.

Okie State at 11? What! What! What! They’re going to be the UGa of 2009, and hopefully we’ll start them on their downward slide.

How in the fuck does Auburn receive 12 votes?

Looking at the Top 10 first three games – Florida, Texas, Penn State, LSU, and Ole Miss should easily stay up top since they play a combined NO ONE. Oklahoma gets credit for taking on BYU and finally kudos to USC and OSU, Bama and VT, and Georgia and OSU for scheduling the only games worth watching in September.

PS Notre Dame in the Top 25?! You have to be kidding me.

A requirement for interviewing for the Auburn HC job last winter was that you had to agree to through them a vote in the CP. That’s like 11 different head coaches right there.

That, or the coaches want to prop Auburn up a bit, so maybe “I quit and you pay me 5 million dollars in severence anyway” becomes the norm.

I’ll stick up for Michigan a little bit for a second. They’re going to start 3-1, so due to the blatent idiocy of pollsters they’ll get ranked. Then MSU and Iowa show up, and they’ll get curbstomped and drop out. Then they’ll beat Delaware State and show back up at 25. Of course, they’ll then proceed to lose every game except Purdue and finish 5-7.

Auburn’s about right, most people have them mid 30s or so. You’re just a hater and you know it.

Watch out for Nevada, they will beat Notre Dame in that first game.

As a UF alumnus, I can’t be objective here.
Will somebody who did not go to UF tell me if all of the media attention in the past few seasons has made the Gators as annoying as Notre Dame football or Duke basketball is to me? Are we there, or do we have a year or two more of Lee Corso superlatives before we reach that point?
Thanks in advance for your honesty.

Iowa being in the Top 25 is retardilicious. 7-5 here they come.

Bama’s Back!
Details are sketchy, someone is trying to make a big whoop about Julio Jones and Mark Ingram taking some sort of “boat ride”/“fishing trip” . Hell, the bigger story was about the barge they put DJ Fluker and Terrance Cody on to go fishing, and then once they stepped on it, it capsized, causing a Tsunami that near about wiped out Dauphin Island AND Gulf Shores. Film at 11.
They are lucky they all werent tasered. 4 black men, all within 5 square miles of each other in Orange Beach, AL will get you arrested, then tasered.

PDX:
Not as bad as Notre Dame cause the attention is deserved.
Y’all are as annoying as Duke though.
Sorry.

Can we just ban Ohio State from a Top 25 poll until AFTER they’ve played a few games?

@10, I really don’t buy Michigan getting waxed again this year. Basically everyone you would have penciled in as a starter last year was out to start the year. With a full year in the system, they will be much better. I think 7-5 is about right for this year.

For my money, the most overrated team is Utah. They lost so much in the way of personnel from last year, and the biggest difference between the big time powers and the Utahs of the world is depth. I think 9-3 or 8-4 is likely, but I don’t know if that will be enough to be ranked at the end of the year.

Notre Dame has a schedule easy enough, that if they don’t win 10 games, there were some upsets. MSU, UM and Purdue all will be down this year. The only one with a chance vs. ND is MSU. Other than SC, the Irish will be favored in every game. I will enjoy their misery, which with Weis as coach, is sure to come.

Alabama seems high to me, but only because they have an unproven QB. The defense looks stout though, as long as they don’t have to defend a spread offense.

tOSU will not be #6 for long. After 9/12, we will be either #2 or #12. We have a quick litmus test, then PSU is the next stumbling block. I look for Pryor to have a great year and we play UF in the BCSCG. Obviously, I think we beat USC since they are breaking in a new QB.

RE: A lukewarm defense of Auburn

5-7 surely shouldn’t get you much attention for the top 25, but is there an equally compelling reason why theese folks ahead of Auburn in the “Other Receiving Votes” should have either:

Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Rutgers, Miami (Florida), Missouri, Illinois, Clemson, South Carolina, UCLA.

While Auburn still has a large ? at QB and depth is thin at places, look at what each of these teams lost from last year.

UCLA was 4-8 in the PAC1. Spurrier lost more players off an equally mediocre team, not to mention his balls. Clemson has undergone a coaching change. The Wannastache is still at Pitt. WFVU lost everyone but Noel Devine and has to play at AU this year.

There are 4 ACC teams in the top 25, or one more than the mountain west. FSU has been in the ACC for a while now, time to update your conference lists.

Or maybe you meant that the Mountain West has three teams in the top 25, as many as the big televen and just accidently assumed that anytime you were writing about a weak conference not names the Big East, it must be the ACC.

I AM LEGION!

It is possible, maybe not likely, that if VT knocks off ’Bama and the Buckeyes beat USC the next week that we could end up having an ACC v. Big Ten NC game. Big OOC wins will pay off since going undefeated in the Big XII & SEC is going to be tough for UF, Texas & OU.

@#15: I’ll ask you the same question I ask everyone who assumes that Michigan is going to a bowl this year: where are 6 (and in your case, 7) coming from? Are you assuming that you get bad Juice (as opposed to mediocre Juice)? Is Michigan going to win the battle of the two biggest douchebags to ever be associated with college football in Madison? Because outside of that, the two garbage heaps from the state of Indiana, and the non-conf games against the directional Michigans and a 1-AA team, I don’t see anything but tears. And a little anal tearing on November 21st. But mostly tears.

Put this In the category of who really cares if UF wasn’t unanimous. I don’t know but wouldn’t it make sense that other [small] Texas schools would vote for Mack Brown? Like Houston, North Texas, TCU? That – or it came out of another B12 school (other than OU). Though I would hope that the rivalry [see hatred] is strong enough that you would never vote for someone you hated – no matter how good they are. Which, under my theory, could put FSU in as a vote for Texas. If someone kept Bobby away from his nap long enough to vote.

California being ranked so high doesn’t bother me as much that more people apparently voted for Kansas than they did Miami, Pitt, and WVU.

Seriously, three teams from the SEC West in the Top Ten?

…and LSU is scheduled to play 4 teams from the Top 13.

Fuck that. I wanna move to the MAC.

@20
A big televen vs acc title game would result in massive national vomiting and some of the worst NC football seen since…longer than I can remember. It would however, be a banner year for the other bowl games with real talent playing.

@#17,

Why? Because they haven’t proved their good enough to be in the top 25? I might agree with top 10 if that’s what you said, but the one problem OSU does not have is beating teams outside of the top 10.

1. said “Cal feels high to me. Very high. I cant name one Cal player.”

The answer would be Jahvid Best. He’s actually quite good. That said Cal is way too high.

Oregon should be a better team than Cal (Oregon is a little underrated here, but that’s fair because voter’s should justifiably hedge for the fact that there’s a new coach).

I will echo #16 — Notre Dame is going to cruise 9-10 of its games which will be really frustrating because they still aren’t good.

Coaches are resistant to the notion that the option offense can kill teams, although Georgia Tech’s defense has a few question marks at the defensive line. I think Georgia might be a bit overrated as well, losing both Moreno and Stafford and having a defense that last year was generously described as “permeable”.

On the up side, realizing Notre Dame is back on track for being wildly overrated throughout the season only to get beaten like a red-headed stepchild by a snubbed SEC second place team in whatever bowl game they meet at is somewhat comforting, like grandma’s apple pie and the gentle dribbling of spittle Mark May experiences every Saturday.

I’m not really sure why VT is that high up, except Beamerball Orgasms and the fact that I can’t really name many teams that should be ranked higher than them.

It does appear, though, that the polls have finally started to grasp how good the SEC is, since the top 15 isn’t totally dominated by Big Ten schools that will have 10-2 records from weak OOC scheduling and a clusterfuck at the top between PSU, tOSU, and Generic Big Ten Winning Team Lottery Winner 2k9.

Doug, the bolding in your first analysis is dead on. Notwithstanding all the preseason hype, it’s hilarious that coaches, media, and opposing fans still give Florida an excuse to motivate themselves by pretending they have been jilted. It’s literally the number one mental-game reason that Florida won the championship game twice in three years. It’s like gifting them pre-season motivation.

By the way, how did Texas, Oklahoma, and USC fare with graduations? Returning players may be Florida’s biggest advantage.

PDX:

Completely biased, but program no, Tebow yes. And for the record, Corso’s eager mouth counts as sex.

Ah, Spurrier. Again giving up the Duke vote. Blubbering apologies at Media Days. Apologetically tempering Gamecocks’ expectations to an increasing degree each year.

If I’d known ten years ago that I’d get to witness this slow and steady emasculation, I’d have thought I’d enjoy it more.

Pardon my ignorance, but does the College Football Hall of Fame do second inductions (Spurrier’s already in as a player)? I’m picturing a certain symmetry with some such coaching honor coming his way, mirroring the Heisman, as his late coaching career calls to mind a slow-motion Stanfill sack.

Brian…another ‘hey- Jahvid Best’ comment. He’s the returning RB with the most yards in the whole country. Getting a lot of Heisman and Doak Walker hype. And he’s the guy in the ESPN CFB Live opening montage, between Tebow & McCoy. Yellow jersey #4.

Other than that, yeah, Cal’s pretty anonymous. Except for Syd’Quan Thompson, possible AA CB. But other than that.

@ PDXgonegator:

No, it’s not nearly as bad as those two programs… except for Tebow. The ongoing collective media blow job of Tebow is unending and incredibly annoying. I should say “attempted blowjob” since he won’t let anyone near his junk anyway.

And why do I know that? BECAUSE REPORTERS ASK HIM SHIT LIKE THAT.

Aside from that, I think if I were a UF fan, I’d be angry that y’all aren’t being hyped like the 2005 USC team that was supposed to beat everyone by 50, invade Mexico and establish its own nation.

jd4au:

Mark it down. WVU will blow-out Auburn (at home) in front of a national audience on Sept. 19, keeping their SEC win streak alive.

@#33

How did they fare with graduations? Pretty poorly one would assume.

@4 & 5

V-tech will get their shit pushed in by Bama and then shivved by Nebraska @ home. Alas it won’t matter because they will still smoke and mirror their way through the ACC and do just enough to beat an an also ran Big East team in the Orange Bowl. Unless the OB has a chance to grab a Big XII or SEC at large ala 2007, then they will get smacked around in their bowl game too.

Isn’t CFB be fun?

Yea, ok, I have heard of Best.

Someone mentioned UGA’s defense as permeable…to your sir I say, that is the vaunted “Traffic Cone Defense” Scheme.

@17- “A few games” into the season is not the OSU problem. That ban can be institued right after the thought police are empowered to enter your home and taze you prior to posting such ideas. If bans were being enacted, I think it would have to be called the “Clemson rule” anyway.

Missouri getting 44 points for a “34th ranking” is horseshit. Even with their vaunted offense, they could only go 5-3 in the Big 12 North and they don’t have the pizza delivery guy anymore.

@ LSUfreek. You think being and your shoes is bad, try being a State fan. We have to play 5 of the top 15. And we’re not projected to do shit this year.

No, State, I expect you to die.

I, for one, would like to gratulate the Gator for being the most bestester preseasoned team in the naysha. Go Gator.

Actually, I think they nailed it with the exception of Notre Dame, no way they are in the top 25. Although looking at this is tough, I am a PSU fan living in the middle of Gator zone. I can’t take much more of them!

No, Florida is nowhere near as obnoxious as ND football or Duke basketball fans. Sure, they’re retarded teabags [arp arp arp], but nothing like those two.

“Oregon should be a better team than Cal (Oregon is a little underrated here, but that’s fair because voter’s should justifiably hedge for the fact that there’s a new coach).”

A new coach and 9 returning starters, with key depth having transferred to other schools in the offseason. Oregon is this year’s Arizona State. (Well, OK, that’s not fair, ASU’s 2007 record was mostly smoke and mirrors with 08 seeing the chickens come home to roost, Oregon toughed out some solid wins last year but they’re going to get knocked back by attrition.) Masoli and Blount put up shiny numbers last year, but you still can’t scheme around a green offensive line. Meanwhile Oregon’s defensive line is decimated in what may be the best running conference in college football.

Also, in addition to Best and probable All American corner Syd’quan Thompson, more people should know about Cameron Jordan and Tyson Alualu, who make for the best defensive end tandem in the Pac-10.

I know counting is an honors level course in SEC land, but the ACC has 4 teams in the top 25

Seriously, there’s not enough space to enumerate the comedy in this poll. Which would be fine, except that this load of manure is given a formal role in deciding the national championship.

The real question is who in the hell besides Mack Brown and his brother thought that Texas was better than Florida OR USC right off the jump.

I’ve heard of pity sex, but not pity votes!
Florida State is not a top 25 team.
They have 6 road games that have beat-downs genetically encoded for the Seminoles.
BC, BYU, UNC, WAKE, CLEMSON, FLORIDA.
FSU = not a top 25 team!

#50
And thats about as close as they will get to staying there, in the preseason……then it goes down to 1, Vagina Tech. Thats right, its on.

Oh yeh, who has the guts to start an EDSBS Fantasy Football League? Come on out, and take ya beating. Petition Orson to make it so.

Vandy J,

Neither Mack nor Watson Brown voted in the poll.

As for justification of a #1 vote, perhaps the 4 coaches saw that Texas is bringing back a substantial portion of a team that beat Oklahoma by 10 points on a neutral field last year.

No need to worry about Notre Dame being ranked as MSU will beat them. They might as well rename that place in South Bend “Spartan Stadium South” for how much success MSU has had there recently.

@MPP

Thank you, Madam Congressman.

irish suck, shouldn’t be ranked, just let them be with their weak ass schedule. Gonna get smoked by usc, pitt, bc, msu and mich. forget about us. fewer thoughts about us, more likely we’ll lose the nbc contract. better to relegate us to the wac/mountain west status.

Im just happy Texas will have the chance to beat the GREATEST TEAM EVER. again.

Socalirish @ 58: no, BC looks pretty weak this year. You will win that one.

Polls, schmolls. Gators, schmators, maisht pataters. Irish & Aubies on here throwing scat on their own teams as lotuses to the Buddha on the preseason altar, secretly hoping for magic seasons. Oh-nine, will you bring me happiness, will you bring me sorrow? Ask Julio.

No, Mr. PP, you are right. I mean, take last year for instance. Tech went to Athens and defeated Georgia. Tech also defeated Miss State. Wake defeated Ole Miss, you know that team that was the 3rd best team in the SEC at the end of the year. Both Wake and Duke, yes, Wake and Duke, defeated Vandy, who was able to take out both Auburn and Ole Miss.

And, of course, Clemson defeated SCar, which almost always happens these days.

But, you are right. The SEC really should be playing on Sundays.

Because, when Vandy is whipping up on conference teams, it is that Vandy had become great, not that your conference was mediocre with the notable exceptions of Alabama and Florida.

ohiodawg @48 somehow hearing from a dawg that we haven’t reached Duke or Notre Dame “everyone but our fans hate us” status is strangely refreshing.

#62
And this is why we celebrate the new football year, to make amends for the Fubars of last year. I think this year you will see a better overall SEC picture, and Vandy is my dark horse this year, and I am glad to say, Bama dont have to play them. I think Ole Miss will be a little better,even with all the chest pounding they are doing. If they dont beat Fla last year, they are you typical 5 loss Ole Miss team. Frank Beamer is all class. He was on Finebaum and this should be a good game. I would be glad to beat them by 1 pt.

Dammit YOUR […..they are YOUR typical 5 loss Ole Miss team…], damn Ebonics 101 class. See How She Move.

I just wonder if Tenn. will be a “hot mess” this year, like Auburn was last year.