ESPN Power index

[Chappy.sixpack]

We are ranked #17.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings

I think they have us about right for this season. Frankly, I think we were grossly underappreciated in the AP and Coaches polls. 9 wins out of the SEC West is a strong season period.

 

[aTotal360]

Technically it's only 2 wins out of the SECW. But I guess that's a matter of semantics.

 

[kired]

Clemson being ranked 4 points below Oklahoma, while oklahoma is only 1 point behind bama is a little headscratching. I quit looking after that.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

I see the power 5 schools I want to play: Kansas, Oregon State, Rutgers, Purdue, Wake Forest, Maryland and Colorado.

Poor Kansas. 124 out of 128, with the next power 5 school checking in at 97.

 

[aTotal360]

I love how some of these conferences beat their chests about playing 9 conference games. USM and Troy would both beat Kansas.

 

[johnson86-1]

Clemson being ranked 4 points below Oklahoma, while oklahoma is only 1 point behind bama is a little headscratching. I quit looking after that.

Another headscratcher for me is A&M and Florida. Both are similar to me, they started out pretty good teams but ended up being pretty mediocre teams. Not sure how A&M ends up at 21 and FLorida ends up at 29. OF course those were both basically two different teams over the course of the season, so hard to deal with teams like that. They even impact other teams, as a loss to either at the beginning of the season wasn't a bad loss but a loss at the end was. Can't imagine how they adjust for that statistically with such a short season.

 

[patdog]

Yeah. They've got us about right, but a lot of the other rankings are just GIGO. Just another useless computer algorithm that sometimes happens to rank some teams right. Oklahoma at #2 is a freaking joke. If TCU and Baylor hadn't had so many QB injuries, Oklahoma wouldn't even be in the top 2 in its own conference. Mississippi with 3 losses at #4 is another headscratcher. They're a top 10 team for sure, but if you have 3 losses, you're not in the top 4 in the country.

 

[Philly Dawg]

Two and three teams from the SECE in the final polls is absurd. Arkansas and MSU should be ranked ahead of pretty much all three of them.

 

[patdog]

I can understand Tennessee being ranked. But they're the only SEC East team in the top 8 in the SEC.

 

[Bobby Ricigliano]

Or context.

Technically it's only 2 wins out of the SECW. But I guess that's a matter of semantics.

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[aTotal360]

you get it.

 

[Joe Schmedlap]

Agreed. UT 2015 is not as good as Alabama, Mississippi, LSU, Mississippi State, and Arkansas 2015.

I can understand Tennessee being ranked. But they're the only SEC East team in the top 8 in the SEC.

 

[BigLeagueChew]

Come to Nashville and say that. They currently think that are top 5 b/c they ended the season beating a bunch of ****** teams culminating with beating a ****** big10 team

 

[aerodawg.sixpack]

See this is why we have to beat the LSU's and Bama's. Otherwise, a team with 1 more loss than you, whom you beat head to head at their place in the next to last game of the regular season will end up finishing in front of you in almost everyone's eyes.

 

[Sutterkane]

Colorado is one of the worst programs in the country for almost 10 years running. They are currently 1990s Baylor bad.

 

[tatedog]

One might say they are doing backflips?

 

[BiscuitEater]

Mississippi State 9-4 at #17 right ahead of Michigan State 12-2 #18

 

[jakldawg]

Then you missed out on seeing 12-win Iowa and 13-win Houston just a hair above 3-win Georgia Tech.