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CFB51.com 130 team rankings:

• Clemson
• HALF THE SEC
• Ohio State

There, fixed it.  Jeez.
Florida is too high across the board - replacing 4 OL starters rarely works out well.

There, fixed it.  Jeez.
Florida is too high across the board - replacing 4 OL starters rarely works out well.

So are you higher on ND? Texas? An A&M team that has a good chance to finish 7-5? Washington and Oregon?

That 6-15 area is just a weird morass. 

So are you higher on ND? Texas? An A&M team that has a good chance to finish 7-5? Washington and Oregon?

That 6-15 area is just a weird morass.

I don't know, I haven't looked closely at the other teams.  What I do know is that I'd rather be replacing skill position players rather than 4/5 of an OL.


I tend to be hard on my Gators, since UM left.  


Florida is an interesting job...a HC has all the resources he needs to dominate - not just have a good record, but to smoke people left and right, yet at the same time it still takes "the right guy" to win big.

This is the final poll from last season, notice some apparently overlap (duh):

[th]Rank[/th] [th]Record[/th] [th]PTS[/th] [th]1st[/th] [th]Prev[/th] [th]Chg[/th] [th]Hi/Lo[/th]
1	Clemson	15-0	1600	64	2	1	1/4
2	Alabama	14-1	1536	0	1	-1	1/2
3	Ohio State	13-1	1437	0	5	2	2/10
4	Oklahoma	12-2	1415	0	4	—	4/11
5	Notre Dame	12-1	1316	0	3	-2	3/11
6	Florida	10-3	1192	0	10	4	6/NR
7	Louisiana State	10-3	1186	0	11	4	4/24
8	Georgia	11-3	1147	0	6	-2	2/8
9	Texas	10-4	1093	0	14	5	7/NR
10	Washington State	11-2	1007	0	13	3	7/NR
11	Kentucky	10-3	945	0	15	4	11/NR
12	Central Florida	12-1	876	0	7	-5	7/23
13	Washington	10-4	807	0	9	-4	6/19
14	Michigan	10-3	780	0	8	-6	4/22
15	Syracuse	10-3	720	0	17	2	12/NR
16	Texas A&M	9-4	625	0	20	4	16/NR
17	Penn State	9-4	581	0	12	-5	8/20
18	Fresno State	12-2	497	0	21	3	17/NR
19	Northwestern	9-5	375	0	22	3	19/NR
20	Army	11-2	333	0	25	5	20/NR
21	Utah State	11-2	252	0	23	2	13/NR
22	West Virginia	8-4	235	0	16	-6	6/22
23	Cincinnati	11-2	186	0	28	5	20/NR
24	Boise State	10-3	165	0	24	—	17/NR
25	Mississippi State	0-0	107	0	18	-7	14/NR

No. 19 Utah.
Iowa 102; Utah 75; Appalachian State 56; Stanford 38; Iowa State 29; Auburn 27; Oregon 18; Missouri 14; UAB 9; Georgia Southern 7; Virginia 5; Troy 2; NC State 2; Wisconsin 2; Duke 1.

Fifteen games for the top two teams.  That seems like too many games for one year.

I'd be shocked if the Buckeyes were in the top 10 at season's end.Now Fields may be all that but I'm thinking Urbz knew when to skedaddle.The corner backs and I suspect the LB's will be suspect at best.Perhaps the O-Line also,Unless the other programs attrition was worse I don't think they will win the East

How much effort do you suppose a sportswriter applies to his ranking each week?

My guess is not much at all.  Maybe the Newbie just invited spends 15 minutes on it, but my GUESS is the regular writers do it in 5 minutes whilst watching ESPN or checking scores.  I don't know why I'd spend more time on it myself, take last week's poll and drop whoever lost and push up the rest.

Probably more than that, just because you have to corral all the scores, wrap your head around them, figure out the just outside the last top-25 group. I’m guessing the average newbie spends more time, but some veterans do and some do not.

The issue will always be the product is engineered to incite. Someone will be too high (regardless of who should move up) or two low, regardless of who should move down. Or they’ll have not dropped enough or jumped too much. Tis the nature of it. And then comes the question of, if you’re approach is consistent, is it the right approach. And one ballot gets washed away in the “wisdom of the crowd.”

anyway, it won’t satisfy and is constructed poorly.