We all know these are a joke. I remember Nebraska being pre-season ranked after a previous 4-8 season.
Pre-Season Top-25 Polls Released
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Flying to Columbus from Dublin for this one! Greatest 10 days of my life coming up!!!
Let’s be growers not showers.
Really frustrating to see huge chunk of the list occupied by programs who should not be perennially ahead of us in the conversation.
But that’s where we’re at.
Nothing to show cus we haven’t grown… yet.
Really frustrating to see huge chunk of the list occupied by programs who should not be perennially ahead of us in the conversation.
But that’s where we’re at.
Nothing to show cus we haven’t grown… yet.
He's out indefinitely now.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...sam-hartman-indefinitely-non-football-illness
Uggh....I hate to see that. Really hope he doesn't miss a huge chunk of time.
He was definitely one of the few likeable guys on the QB1 show. Hope he gets back to the field soon.
Baylor and Oklahoma State should be ahead of Oklahoma. All three teams have potential in the Top 10. The other two are more likely.
Will Nebraska upend a Top 10 Oklahoma team?
OSU could very well win the NC this year if their new defensive staff can fix those horrible defenses from 2020 and 2021. To say the 2022 OSU offense will be loaded is an understatement. The OSU-Michigan game could end up being a massacre.
I realize that Alabama is ranked no. 1 in just about every poll. but OSU is my pick to win the NC for the reason you mentioned. Their 2020 and 2021 defenses were horrible - really HORRIBLE - and hence Day gutted his defensive staff minus their DL coach (can't think of his name) who is close to retiring.
You are correct - having top notch assistants is just as important as having a quality HC
There's no way to know if guys like Ryan Day are good coaches or not...if all they have to do is inherit a great program and hire good assistants.
I'd like to see him or Saban go to a non-successful team and see what they can do. A team that doesn't have cheating or big NIL advantages.
I actually agree with you about Day
so far, his teams have vastly underperformed
He’s won 2 B1G championships that isn’t really underperforming, yea last year they weren’t better than Michigan..
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The same could be said of Saban and much of the time our own TO. So the punishment for being on top is you win it all or nothing, I get that but getting to the top isn't easy, if it was more teams would be up there.
And you didn't address our own former coach or Saban at MSU. They don't all start out on top.
But they usually bring a bad team up to decent...or a decent team up to good...and then move to a better program. It's not like they take a bad program and make it great. (Although that's what I'm hoping Fleck can do.)
And we only got one vote less than Texas- San Antonio! The Huskers are back!
Geez, it's time to win
Alabama was 26-24 in the 4 years prior to Saban
LSU was 7-15 in the 2 years prior to Saban
Maybe now he can go head back to his gopher hole..
To be fair, coach O and les also won natties at lsu and they were busy chasing skanks when they did it( yes I know it was aranda, Brady, and burrow who should be credited with coach O’s natty)
And because of that, Day fired his whole defensive staff minus that DL coach. If the OSU defense is even decent this year, that team will be LETHAL
Saban took over in 2007. In 2005, Alabama was 10-2. They also had 10-win seasons in 2002, 1999, & 1996. They were 12-1 in 1994, 13-0 in 1992, 11-1 in 1991....a recent history of winning big.
And LSU was 19-5 in the 2 years prior to the 2 years you mentioned.
My point was I'd like to see what he could do at Northwestern. Or Minnesota before we got Fleck.
These preseason polls are more of a wild guess than ever with all the portal mayhem. Aside from the top teams. It really is a crapshoot. I bet 10 of those teams listed finish unranked.
We know at least one will be gone because Nebraska will obviously be ranked at seasons end
We know at least one will be gone because Nebraska will obviously be ranked at seasons end
We don’t deserved to be ranked until we‘re at least above .600
I know. I do find it rather hilarious that we're ranked in places (another guy at Action Network has us at #16!), and hope it sticks in the USA Today Poll if only to piss on the parade of our fellow unworthy conference members
here's the official AP Poll. Huskers receive one (1) single vote for inclusion.
ACC getting too much respect. 2-10 in the postseason the last two years. One of those wins was beating Rutgers that showed up on late notice. BIG should have at least 1 more team ranked.
It will lessen it. Already has... Alabama was going to have some huge gaps last year and this year and free movement just guarantees the top teams don't have years with big gaps like that.
The results at Minnesota before Fleck are the same as at Minnesota after Fleck. But with Fleck you also get the selfish, used-car salesman thing too, so that's cool.
Man there is a lot of potential there. A&M has to live up to the hype, OU had a coaching change, and I'm not sold on Clemson. Haven't followed them much this year yet, but they need to get their QB situation figured out or it will be more of the same.
