/cfb/ - AP Poll Edition

It's finally here, lads. Tell us why you hate preseason polls.

Old thread:

>tfw 2
>tfw the Gaycocks are no where to be seen

>tfw everyone knows we're going to suck
>tfw we receive votes anyway

>Ohio State and Michigan at 6/7
>Both teams got a first place vote

GOTC confirmed

>preseason polls

But hey "we" 4th!

For once enough voters realize that it's dumb to put Wisconsin in the top 25.

>Tennessee at 9
We'd probably be unranked if our QB was white. We'll have another middling season and won't go anywhere near the NT.

Every year, the SEC needs a high-ranked sacrifice for teams to beat up on to bolster their own rankings.

It's Tennessee's turn in the barrel.

>LSU 5

Stop.

My how Oregon and Baylor have fallen.

With how Baylor's been losing both players and recruits over the summer, they're lucky to be ranked.

>Michigan
>7

fuckin wew

Why even make a poll this early? They just put the big names high.

>Why even make a poll this early?
To get you talking about football.

Fucking this. How can they seriously be ranked at all after losing their head coach, and replacing him with someone who shit the bed at SMU?

The Big 12 and AAC are essentially the same; Houston and TCU are both ranked high, then OU is in the top 4. Only one will be able to sustain success, the line between the bottom of the P5 and the top of the G5 is becoming more blurred all the time.

Anyway,
>WKU
>Others receiving votes

IT'S LIT, SENPAI

And oh yes, fucking shame on you all for letting the old thread die.

Top Bants, we had going there....

Illinois is going to go 6-6 and compete in a bowl game this year and there's nothing any of you can do about it

>received a first place vote

>no Auburn

Will they respect us when we man handle Clemson?

>last time they did this, they lost that bowl game to a CUSA team
Keep ya head up, gents.

No voters from your fantasy world

Why is Illinois so bad?
>Between 2000 and 2009 Illinois went to only 2 bowl games
>Both were BCS bowls

Stanford is ranked a little high IMO. While McCaffery is the truth replacing Hogan with a young QB will be difficult, and some key components of the O-line are gone this season.

Their schedule also sucks - start off against K-State on 9/2, then have a bye, then take on U$C, Washington, and UCLA in like three weeks.

Someone had to win the B1G, and Ohio State was having an off couple of years.

Official playoff prediction:

1. UGA
2. Clemson
3. Alabama
4. Michigan

>Auburn complaining about being disrespected

Remember: a team worthy of a ranking spot didn't get it because they put you schmucks at #6 last year. Consider yourselves lucky to have received votes.

Which top 10 team will lose week 1 and why will it be LSU?

Because LSU is a top 15 team at best.

>Michigan

lol

We didn't win in the B1G in 2007/8, though. We went to the rose bowl because we placed second and OSU was in the natty.

Because we're Illinois, although in the early 2010s we made back to back literally who bowls so that was nice

It's fun rooting for a shit team desu. Makes you appreciate the bowls you make a lot more. Fucking Ohio State and Bama fans cry for days when they don't win a natty, meanwhile 7-5 is a championship here. Fucking spoiled brats.

>GOTC
>not using its proper name of "who loses the CFP and who loses the Rose Bowl"

>start with 0 votes in 2013
>go to the natty
>start at #6 2014 and 2015
>...

Why do you even want us ranked preseason anymore

>Ohio State
>Losing the CFP

Texas has the best RB, LB, and CB corps in the Big XII.

Prove me wrong.

You can't.

>Tennessee
>ranked in the top 10
>Texas
>unranked
the real UT wins again

>the real UT

But you don't have a Temple image posted

>Temple
Shalom my kosher friend, but I was talking about accredited universities, not places of sandpeople worship

Austin is Jewish as fuck

>Tennessee
>820 wins
>Texas
>886 wins
b8 harder

grobe has never been at smu as far as i know
however he did win the acc at wake forest

we're 5th in the west according to the polls

unranked schools are not allowed to post in this thread

>mack brown
MACK BROWN
>mack brown
MACK BROWN
>mack brown

Minnesota Golden Gophers

>derek dooley

how about fuck you? we'll be ranked by midseason

Whoa, whoa whoa--

Bama/Buckeye tears are delicious no matter HOW your own team did this year.

dooley didn't retire in shame
ranked in the 'biggest disappointments of 2016' poll for sure

Of what year?

>3-loss teams non-SEC teams ranked midseason
wew

>dooley didn't retire in shame
fulmer did

fulmer retired a king, he wasn't forced out for a nignog

Ten days and a wake-up until kickoff, friends.

Gophers v Beavers

Soon, friend.

>#25

y-yay...

>retired a king
>5-7

he went out loved by the fans, because he was old and tired
not because the fans chimped out

>forced out by the administration
>for lane kiffin

>#6

gay

goddamnit

>LSU #5
fucking why?

>still no starting quarterback
>gus says its nothing to be worried about

what did we mean by this

>all these pac 12 teams

is this some sort of cruel joke?

>uw 14

How? UW was what, 6-6 last year? Shit offense with an okay defense translates to top 14? Just because they had a coach that worked wonders at a tiny school doesn't mean they are going to be great.

What a weird fucking list. Seems like a cruel jab because they know some of these teams won't stay ranked so highly so they rated them high so that they would tumble and it's a thing to talk about all season.

playoff will be
1 Clemson
2 Michigan
3 Alabama
4 Florida St

>Clemson v Bama natty part 2: memetric boogaloo
no thanks

BOLD PREDICTION:
We will have a G5 team in the playoff this year, and it will not be Houston.

MI and Clemson will be 13-0. Bama 12-1 FSU 11-1. Bama will beat Clemson for the natty

How the hell is anyone else gonna make it in?

you'll see

You think the power 5 isn't gonna produce 4 1-loss or better teams this year? Because unless that's the case I don't think there's anyone else who even has the schedule to hypothetically put together a strong enough resume to get in over an 11-1 P5 team

Can Bama just fuck off somewhere for like 5 years? Nobody wants to see them anymore. It's fucking boring.

You'll miss us when Saban retires and we're going 8-4. We're Jordan's Bulls, enjoy the greatness while it's happening

I STILL DON'T GET THIS FLORIDA MEME.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Leave Bama to us

my biggest regret from last year is that we didn't get the chance to whoop your fucking ass

user with no bama there is no bama losing.

Will we though? I mean, nobody except for Cane and Trojan fans miss Miami or USC. In fact, we all quite enjoy their misery. Maybe some people miss Osborne's Nebraska I guess. To be fair though, Bama isn't as thuggish/entitled as the former two dynasties were. But they're also not nearly as exciting.

what if their program gets the death penalty from the ncaa
that would be the ultimate losing

I really think Bama used MSU as a proxy for the abuse they wanted to dish out on Ohio State 2bh

You'll miss us in a way you don't realize. sports are better when there's an evil empire to root against

...

>You'll miss us
no i won't
in fact if y'all wanted to hire mike shula again i'd be pretty happy

>sports are better when there's an evil empire to root against
evil empires are better when they aren't your rival

can't wait to find out if its possible for a team to go 0-13

>anyone but LSU taking home the natty

wew lad

we only play 12 games

lsu isnt gonna be that good

gonna lose to bama and 1 of arkansas/a&m/florida/ole miss

i feel like tennessee does it every year

also
>ole miss at 11

overrated as fuck

Where have I heard this before?

yeah thats the joke. you're so bad you will somehow find a way to lose 13

we let jake throw it 24 times that game? felt like we just gave it to derrick on every play

you already lost your spring game, friend

they're gonna lose in jordan-hare too

we are starting the season 3-0 and then winning one random big 12 game. hopefully its the TCU game

>38 carries

Every other play probably. Your TOP was like 40 minutes too

and at home to mississippi state

Some people probably thought this about them after Bear, they were wrong
I miss all of them. USC, Miami, Nebraska, Texas, Tennessee, Michigan, Washington, Virginia Tech ALL good? Take me back senpai. Now all those teams are trash and what do we have? Baylor? TCU? Clemson?

Tennessee is ranked 9th. I wouldn't say that >we are trash, just not in NC contention yet.

I do miss the days we were a perennial contender though, even when we blew it

last year we lost the spring game when we ended our own starting QB's season in the second drive

>Ranked 9th
>In a preseason poll

I hate to burst your bubble, but those mean fuck-all.

...

i know that as well as anyone, we've been overrated the past 5-6 years

i think we'll do okay this year though, probably two losses

>playing southern miss and south alabama in the middle of the season
oh SEC you so funny