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Ridiculously overrated preseason teams

What is the most absurdly overrated preseason team?

  • Tennessee

    Votes: 122 59.8%

  • Washington

    Votes: 32 15.7%

  • FSU

    Votes: 25 12.3%

  • LSU

    Votes: 12 5.9%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 6.4%
  • Total voters
    204
  • Poll closed .
Tennessee is seeming a lot like 2010 Miami. Where the coach has taken the team up from 5 to 7 to 9 wins in his 1st 3 years. And you're highly regarded in the preseason.

What's the over/under on Butch Jones coaching Tennessee in 2017?
 
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Canezum5 said:
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What on earth has either Tennessee done to merit their preseason rating?

Butch Jones has the familiar (to UM fans) 5,7,9 win pattern going into year 4 as head coach. Maybe some voters figure Jones will continue going up in wins. Plus I guess the close losses to Alabama and OU impressed poll voters. I still believe their poll rating is ridiculous.

Chris Peterson was great at BSU. But he hasn't done much of anything at UW to merit his high preseason rating. I guess voters believe his Boise magic will transfer over to UW even though it hasn't yet. Plus voters may figure that a new dynasty will begin in the PAC 12 North since Mark Helfrich at Oregon is seeming a bit like Larry Coker and Frank Solich right now.
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Id argue that Herflich never came close to even, coker, status.

Dude is such a beta. Bruitlynn jenner prob thinks hes handsome
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Right now I'm thinking it's fair enough to call it a wash. Coker certainly more talent than Helfrich did. But Coker also has a NC ring and Helfrich does not.

If Helfrich doesn't turn it around in the next year or 2 it'll seem really funny how Jimbo got killed by this guy. We'd need to go to the house of every FSU fan and put a sign in their yard saying "Helfrich 59 Jimbob 20."
 
Fsu and Florida. FSU number 4 and no one's seen their QB, same with Florida being ranked at all


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FSU and Tennessee for sure. I give FSU praise here and there, but some of these analyst are crazy predicting a NC from them this year. I'm not too high on them this year regardless; 9-3 with losses to the good guys, Louisville, and Clemson.

Tennessee has a lot of talent but they also have an Al Golden clone.
 
Won't be popular, but it's LSU for me.

What's changed on offense, where they need vast improvement, since last year? What's different this year over the last 5? Nothing. They don't have an effective or even efficient QB. No defense can cover the gross ineptitude of Cameron for an entire season. Again. They're switching an entire front 7 alignment, and people are just buying the line "Oh well they actually have better personnel for a 3-4 than a 4-3." That's garbage. So Chavis and Steele are idiots when it comes to suiting their defensive needs? And Aranda's somehow going to manufacture points for the offense? If Fournette got injured, LSU is a middling SEC squad.

People want to put Tennessee in their because of our interactions with them with croots, et al. But they aren't nearly as overrated as LSU has been for years. The SEC Easy will be just that, and while Jones spends most games looking for a flight of stairs to fall down, I think LSU is the most overrated.
 
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Won't be popular, but it's LSU for me.

What's changed on offense, where they need vast improvement, since last year? What's different this year over the last 5? Nothing. They don't have an effective or even efficient QB. No defense can cover the gross ineptitude of Cameron for an entire season. Again. They're switching an entire front 7 alignment, and people are just buying the line "Oh well they actually have better personnel for a 3-4 than a 4-3." That's garbage. So Chavis and Steele are idiots when it comes to suiting their defensive needs? And Aranda's somehow going to manufacture points for the offense? If Fournette got injured, LSU is a middling SEC squad.

People want to put Tennessee in their because of our interactions with them with croots, et al. But they aren't nearly as overrated as LSU has been for years. The SEC Easy will be just that, and while Jones spends most games looking for a flight of stairs to fall down, I think LSU is the most overrated.
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Agreed. This is the highest LSU has been ranked since 2012(3rd)-- they finished 14th that year. It seemed like the voters had caught on after that with their highest preseason ranking being 12th from 2013-2015, but they're getting the SEC boost in 2016(see Auburn, Ole Miss, UF, etc.) I'm also a bit confused as to why they continue to recruit dual-threat QBs and put them in a pro-style.
 
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I predict LSU will go into November undefeated. Then they'll lose to Bama and Miles will be fired.

The next coach LSU hires will be a Gerry Dinardo equivalent. It'll be shown how dumb they are for firing the best coach in school history. (Yes even better than Saban.)
 
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FSU and Tennessee for sure. I give FSU praise here and there, but some of these analyst are crazy predicting a NC from them this year. I'm not too high on them this year regardless; 9-3 with losses to the good guys, Louisville, and Clemson.

Tennessee has a lot of talent but they also have an Al Golden clone.
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Hard to win the title after getting crushed by Miami.
 
Lol at USC passing on Chris Petersen. One of the biggest no brainer hires and they passed on him. I expect the Huskies to be very good.

UF is overrated
 
UF's defense is great with Collins and Shannon leading it. The problem is that their offense is worse than high school offenses.
 
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FSU is the most overrated / calling them national championship contenders with the best defense ever at FSU?? I dont see it
 
No one has said Baylor? Lost their HC and a lot of good players and then lost basically their entire recruiting class. I say 6-7 wins in Waco.
 
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LSU and FSU are too high. I think Miles won with the upper classmen talent Saban recruited but is a ****e coach. FSU looks pretty meh to me on the offensive side of the football (minus Cook).

Washington is high but I think they'll be decent. Top 20 team.

ND is a bit high at 9, but I see them as a Top 15 team.

Feel like Tennessee always gets overrated these days.
 
I think it is probably O$U.
Yes, I know Urban is a good coach and they can reload after all those players left for the draft, however I think they lose 4-5 games this year. They have to have a down year some time under Meyer and i think this is it.
 
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