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2008 Preseason and Regular season Polls

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I hope UGA runs the table and the media love fest is never ending. I want our poor slow plodding midwestern bumpkins to listen to UGA GOAT discussions for 6 weeks before the bowl game.
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Tennessee absolutely destroyed Georgia (35-7 until a late garbage time TD). Funny how everyone glosses right over that fact, much like Oklahoma laying eggs against SC, Boise St & West Virginia in 3 of 4 years.... yet those two should have been in the title discussion instead of OSU :slappy:
 
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jwinslow;1220590; said:
Tennessee absolutely destroyed Georgia (35-7 until a late garbage time TD). Funny how everyone glosses right over that fact, much like Oklahoma laying eggs against SC, Boise St & West Virginia in consecutive years.... yet those two should have been in the title discussion instead of OSU :slappy:
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Oklahoma had a Holiday Bowl win over Oregon in '05, 1 year after the blowout loss to USC in the Title Game.
 
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BB73;1220614; said:
Oklahoma had a Holiday Bowl win over Oregon in '05, 1 year after the blowout loss to USC in the Title Game.
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My mistake. Looks like the lone exception to their line of eggs was Oregon, whose duty was to keep up the BCS-snubbed Pac-10 underachiever role :p

That was also a preseason #7 team who narrowly avoided their 5th loss that night against Oregon, thanks to a Brady Leaf INT in the redzone, erasing a 3rd down try for 6 & 4th down chip shot FG attempt to tie it up.
 
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jwinslow;1220618; said:
My mistake. Looks like the lone exception to their line of eggs was Oregon, whose duty was to keep up the BCS-snubbed Pac-10 underachiever role :p
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But the Pac-10 officials/replay crew quickly let Oregon get revenge the next year. (September '06 was the onsides kick that would have allowed Oklahoma to run out the clock if the officials/replay crew had noticed that Oregon touched the ball before it went 10 yards, or that Oklahoma had recovered it). :wink2:
 
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agree with the sediments here expressed... the most compelling case for The Dominating Defense of Stupidity is "lookie thar! he did it too!" Meanwhile, Jaxbuck wins the Follicle of Factoid Award in this Thread Poltergeist of Pole Polling: if we're 3rd or higher, we control our destiny.... Nice! :oh:
 
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Thank God for Pete Fiutak. He is spot on in his analysis.

Scout.com: CFN's 2008 Preseason Coaches' Poll Analysis

- Top Five Overrated Teams (remembering that the idea is to ranks teams on how good they are going into the season and not where they will end up): Virginia Tech (15, should be around the 20s), Auburn (11, should be around the 20s), Arizona State (16, should be around 25), Florida State (29, should be around 40), and Virginia (38, should be around 50).

- Top Five Underrated Teams: Penn State (22, should be top 15), Boston College (31, should be top 20), Michigan State (40, should be 25ish), South Carolina (27, should be top 20), Ohio State (3, based on how good the team is coming into the season, it should at least be 2).
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- Here's my biggest issue. If you want to rank Georgia 1, fine. I don't agree, but no problems here. I want all the coaches who voted USC over Ohio State as the better team RIGHT NOW to explain how and in what way the Trojans are better. The receiving corps has done jack-squat, the O line is a major question mark, Mark Sanchez is fine, but he hasn't been Matt Leinart yet, and the D line needs retooling. The Ohio State running backs are better, the defensive back seven might be a wee bit worse than USC's, but not by much, and the special teams are better. So tell me, coaches, how is USC better than Ohio State (or Georgia or Oklahoma or Florida)?
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Darth Buckeye;1220464; said:
1. Georgia (22)
2. USC (14)
3. Ohio State (14)...
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Buck68;1220634; said:
agree with the sediments here expressed... the most compelling case for The Dominating Defense of Stupidity is "lookie thar! he did it too!" Meanwhile, Jaxbuck wins the Follicle of Factoid Award in this Thread Poltergeist of Pole Polling: if we're 3rd or higher, we control our destiny.... Nice! :oh:
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I would think that the winner on 9/13 will move into the #1 spot. True, the #1 team usually doesn't move unless they lose, but #2 vs. #3 matchups speak volumes. UGA won't have a big win at that point, and the ASU game on 9/20 doesn't carry nearly the same weight. Either way, #1 isn't as important as it used to be. In the BCS, #2 is just as good, or better, if you look at the number of upsets in the title game. Look for the rankings to be shook up in the first third of the season. The top five are solid, but the rest is peppered with teams ranked 5-10 spots too high.
 
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methomps;1220817; said:
Insinuating that there is no possible way that USC is better than Ohio State is logical?
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He said right now. So yeah, it doesn't really makes sense to rank a young USC team ahead of an experience-laden tOSU team. I didn't get the sense that he was saying it's not a possibility either. He's just saying on paper, it doesn't make much sense.
 
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