I am not sure we can have this conversation without talking about preseason rankings--even early season rankings. After two games, this is the preseason rankings with all of the highlighted having lost at least one game.
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Many of these teams are going to have 8-4 seasons or worse--Notre Dame, TAMU, Oregon-- to name a few. I think you could justify Baylor and Utah being in the top 25 but the rest should have been 20 or more.
- Notre Dame's loss, out of all the losses, is the most forgivable because of the new coaching staff installed there. I just never really expect to see great things materialize in a HC first year. If it happens, Surprise! If not, okay too.
- What the **** is Jimbo's excuse? He's been there long enough to produce and he ain't producing. App state was not surprising--I knew it would be competitive. If CMC does his job this weekend, Jimbo will really start feeling the heat.
- Nebraska doesn't have an excuse--Frost has been a **** coach and it was only a matter of time. Five years and what, an average of 5-7 seasons or something like that? Losing to Georgia Southern was not surprising to be honest.
There should not be a preseason ranking but there always will be because there is money to be made from it. At the least they should not allow a school that has a new head coach ranked top 25 for the first 4 weeks. That would eliminate the over rankings of Notre Dame and Oregon. Those were not shocking results to anyone dialed in to this sport.
I'm glad to see these smaller conference pulling up on these dudes and getting them with the gat. Dudes running P5 programs getting lazy and overpaid. We saw a lot of smaller programs not giving two ***** who they played and it benefits this sport greatly to have that attitude. I'll tell you what, nobody around here is really saying it but I will; I'm glad we don't have any sunbelt schools on our schedule this year. I would be more worried about playing an App State this weekend than I would a TAMU.