• Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
  • Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!

2007 Preseason and Regular season Polls

Jump to latest Follow Reply
Sort by date Sort by votes
South Florida at #25? I'll jump on that bandwagon and claim they're really rated too low.

USF returns the Big East Special Teams player of the year, Ean Randolph, a freshman, and the Big East Rookie of the Year, QB Matt Grothe, also a freshman. All their leading skill position players are Fr. or So. and return in 2007. The odd thing is that USF is still turning over their roster in 4-year cycles from when the program began, so there are only 12 seniors departing this year. Next years team would have 28 seniors, 25 juniors, and another 25 sophomores (many of which already start). USF gets Cincinnati, WVU, and Louisville all at home in conference play, and opens their schedule with a trip to Auburn in the second week, a chance to get some major TV exposure against a big time opponent.

Rutgers loses stars Leonard (FB) and Harris (TE), plus the interior of both lines. WVU loses Mozes (C) and Sheffey (OG), which looms large over their offense, even with Slaton and White returning. Louisville, which landed seven players on the All-Big East First Team, and five more on the Second Team, loses a half dozen senior leaders, and likely a few key juniors too pending the NFL draft.

South Florida is a rising program that has a realistic shot at the Big East title and a BCS bowl next year.
 
Upvote 0
Dryden;688397; said:
South Florida at #25? I'll jump on that bandwagon and claim they're really rated too low.

USF returns the Big East Special Teams player of the year, Ean Randolph, a freshman, and the Big East Rookie of the Year, QB Matt Grothe, also a freshman. All their leading skill position players are Fr. or So. and return in 2007. The odd thing is that USF is still turning over their roster in 4-year cycles from when the program began, so there are only 12 seniors departing this year. Next years team would have 28 seniors, 25 juniors, and another 25 sophomores (many of which already start). USF gets Cincinnati, WVU, and Louisville all at home in conference play, and opens their schedule with a trip to Auburn in the second week, a chance to get some major TV exposure against a big time opponent.

Rutgers loses stars Leonard (FB) and Harris (TE), plus the interior of both lines. WVU loses Mozes (C) and Sheffey (OG), which looms large over their offense, even with Slaton and White returning. Louisville, which landed seven players on the All-Big East First Team, and five more on the Second Team, loses a half dozen senior leaders, and likely a few key juniors too pending the NFL draft.

South Florida is a rising program that has a realistic shot at the Big East title and a BCS bowl next year.
Click to expand...

I agree whole-heartedly on USF.

During the preseason, as with any other time on BP; there were hundreds of posts with which I disagreed, but did not respond to. One of those posts claimed that USF wasn't the best mid-major on I-4.

Obviously this was a claim that UCF was superior to USF. I didn't bother at the time because, to be honest, I didn't know enough about UCF to be sure.

What I do know about is USF and the Tampa area. USF is a Big Ten sized school in a big city that produces tons of HS football talent. They have great facilities and their coaches are making serious in-roads in setting up pipelines with some of the local high-schools, some of which are perennial contenders for state titles. The Bulls, not the Knights, are in the best position to become the next big program in Florida.

The more the merrier I say. Let them cut that state's talent as many ways as they want.
 
Upvote 0
I'd just like to say that thumping YSU, KSU and some MAC team that's not playing on a Thursday isn't going to lift the Bucks as the season goes along. They better thump the hell out of the Huskies to get any national rep.
 
Upvote 0
NFBuck;795933; said:
Sounds familiar.
Click to expand...
Ohio State had much more depth at D than scUM does though (although, I guess that's subjective).

That being said, aside from the obvious fact that most of us think that 18 is too low, what about Wiscy at #6? Their entire depth chart of safety is gone, if I remember correctly. Hill should be a great running back but in my opinion, 6 is a little high considering some serious holes on defense.
 
Upvote 0
Thats bull shit... This guy is a tool but #18 come on? We have a great defense returning 3 of the 5 lineman, a good running back, 3 recievers who played extensively, Oh and all the special teamers... he needs to do his homework I'd say...Sure we're missing our QB, RB, and three other recievers regaurdless we have the talent remaining to ATLEAST be top 10.. who cares though as long as we get over looked that'll be great!
 
Upvote 0
Big Papa;795934; said:
This guy is a douche-bag. "Season of Revenge", fuck off. The Bucks will still stomp scUM this year.

:oh:
Click to expand...
Don't ever leave a fellow buckeye hanging, ever. :io: :biggrin:
I don't mind if they start off at 18 because they will move up during the season and other teams will fall off in front of us. By the end of the season we will easily be top 10 if not top 5. I was thinking pre-season top 15 team would be pretty good. GO BUCKS!!
 
Upvote 0
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top