Buy/sell top 20 final ranking?

[Msubulldogfan1]

Gonna be close. Either way, feels good knowing we will be ranked.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Buy a Top 20 final ranking.....it wasn't asked, but SELL that we will be Top 20 preseason.

 

[BiscuitEater]

Buy a Top 20 final ranking.....it wasn't asked, but SELL that we will be Top 20 preseason.

Buy .. Top 20 this year

Buy .. Top 20 '18 Pre-season

 

[PBRME]

Buy top 20 this year.

Sell top 20 next year. I think we’ll be in the 23-30 range preseason.

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

I say we end up at 20. So that is a buy. But......we will be picked between 5th and 7th in SEC West next Summer. Like always.

 

[West Tn Dawg]

I'm saying we finish 19!
Start 18.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

If there is any justice....we finish 17

 

[engie]

Strong buy on both.

Borderline top 10 at kick next season. The lazy metrics are heavily in our favor for the first time I can remember. Well, they were slightly going into 14. They can't even use "we're not sure about Fitz' health" as an excuse now.

We likely bring back the entire DL, 56 of 61 total tackles in the game, 10.5 of 11 TFL, 5.5 of 6 sacks. That's losing Cleveland and Grey on D.
We rolled the last drive with freshmen at Qb, Rb, LT, RT. We bring back 9 of those 11 catches, all 55 rushes. And all interior OL. And upgrade talent at all WR spots. And now have semi-proven depth at QB. We likely lose a grand total of one NFL guy from this team -- and we never really noticed when his freshman backup was in the game for him...

We are likely to be picked 3rd in the west. 4th at absolute worst. We should absolutely compete for a championship next season.

 

[Dawg1976]

Probably finish 19th and start about the same.

 

[Oldman.sixpack]

End- 19
Start - 21

 

[shotgunDawg]

Buy. We'll end up ranked 18th or 19th. We should be higher though. I still think we'd beat USC

Starting off next season, we should be top 12 but my guess is we'll be 15-20.

The SEC preseason prediction will be:

Bama
Auburn
MSU or LSU
MSU or LSU
Texas A&M
Ole Miss
Arkansas

It would be absolutely absurd for MSU to be predicted any lower than 4th in the SEC West next year. I think we'll be better than LSU

 

[gymdawg.sixpack]

We end 18 and become the sexy pick next yr to start at 12.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

A&M with jimbo will be ranked higher. We'll be 5th

 

[Dawgzilla]

Strong buy on both.

Borderline top 10 at kick next season. The lazy metrics are heavily in our favor for the first time I can remember. Well, they were slightly going into 14. They can't even use "we're not sure about Fitz' health" as an excuse now.

We likely bring back the entire DL, 56 of 61 total tackles in the game, 10.5 of 11 TFL, 5.5 of 6 sacks. That's losing Cleveland and Grey on D.
We rolled the last drive with freshmen at Qb, Rb, LT, RT. We bring back 9 of those 11 catches, all 55 rushes. And all interior OL. And upgrade talent at all WR spots. And now have semi-proven depth at QB. We likely lose a grand total of one NFL guy from this team -- and we never really noticed when his freshman backup was in the game for him...

We are likely to be picked 3rd in the west. 4th at absolute worst. We should absolutely compete for a championship next season.

We will be picked 5th in the West, ahead of Arkansas and Ole Miss. This is the media we are talking about here. We are perceived as less talented than UA, AU and LSU. The media probably perceives us as less talented than A&M, also, plus they got Jimbo while we got an unknown in Moorhead. I'm saying perceived. I get all the reasons to be excited about next season, but we are talking about the media.

We could be preseason Top 20, but I doubt it. Borderline Top 10 is absurd.

 

[RocketDawg]

We should be top 20, and the remainder of the bowl games won't have any effect on our ranking. All are higher than us now and will remain so.

 

[engie]

We will be picked 5th in the West, ahead of Arkansas and Ole Miss. This is the media we are talking about here. We are perceived as less talented than UA, AU and LSU. The media probably perceives us as less talented than A&M, also, plus they got Jimbo while we got an unknown in Moorhead. I'm saying perceived. I get all the reasons to be excited about next season, but we are talking about the media.

We could be preseason Top 20, but I doubt it. Borderline Top 10 is absurd.

Just remember that you said all of that and come back and admit when you are wrong. We are going to be hyped to the moon in the media this off-season. People are gonna find out that it isn't media bias that's been going against us -- It's media laziness.

It would have been Mullen's best and most hyped team anyway by far. And it will be with Moorhead. We literally don't lose anything of real consequence while adding some absolute monster pieces at WR, DL, and Cole.

A comparable preseason hyping would have been coming off of 2010 into 2011 -- if we had actually brought back Brignone, Hanrahan, White, Wright, McPhee and only lost Sherrod(who had missed half the season and whose backup hadn't shown any clear dropoff). You apply all that -- that team would have been top 10 without question. It was preseason top 20 anyway and we were gutted in that draft and graduation. Lost all 3 starting LBs, the two most important OL, etc.

 

[shotgunDawg]

A&M with jimbo will be ranked higher. We'll be 5th

Would be assanine.

The media not only would have to buy into Moorhead not advancing the program but that we’d get significantly worse with so many upperclassmen

 

[blacklistedbully]

LSU vs ND has a chance to, especially if one kicks the crap out of the other. ND #14, LSU #17. Either losing badly could fall below us, I think.

 

[jethreauxdawg]

Would be assanine.

The media not only would have to buy into Moorhead not advancing the program but that we’d get significantly worse with so many upperclassmen

I agree, but you must be new to MSU preseason SEC rankings. I'll be surprised if we are picked above 5th.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

This is when we should take a page out of the OM book and promote the **** out of this team in the off season.

 

[blacklistedbully]

Any chance UCF falls below us if they get torched by AU? Let's say they get thoroughly man-handled, and lose by 4 or more TD's? After all, the best opponent they beat (2 vs Memphis) lost today to a 7-5 Iowa State.

What say the board?