Coaches Poll - Michigan #5, Wiscy #8

Submitted by WolvWild on

1. Alabama

2. OSU

3. Clemson

4. Louisville

5. Michigan

6. Stanford

7. Houston

8. Wisconsin

9. Washington

10. A&M

11. Tennessee

12. FSU

13. Baylor

14. Miami

15. Nebraska

16. MSU

17. Ole MIss

18. Utah

19. TCU

20. Georgia

21. Florida

22. Arkansas

23. UNC

24. SDSU

25. Texas

*Iowa first among others receiving votes

http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/

lhglrkwg

September 25th, 2016 at 1:15 PM ^

Sometimes I feel like perception is better than reality. Somehow Clemson remains at #3 despite looking completely average in every game so far.

No one seemed to notice Houston struggled with Cincinnati for 75% of the game either

BeatIt

September 25th, 2016 at 2:00 PM ^

UM has beaten who again? um fans should be happy to be getting top 5 respect. so far you have wins against hawaii, ucf, colorado and psu. psu will be lucky to beat nortwestern, purdue and rutgers. during the game thread here against many of you were saying um will be lucky to win 8-9 games. then in the 2nd half those same posters were saying um will beat both msu and osu, lol and roll into the CFB playoffs unbeaten. wisconsin on the other hand has beaten 2 pretty good football teams, lsu and msu. worry about the polls in december. we all know the polls are useless this early in the season. it will all shake out as it always does.

Heywood_Jablome

September 25th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^

Anybody know the last time we beat a top 10 team?  I would guess one of those overrated ND teams at the beginning of the season.

Heywood_Jablome

September 25th, 2016 at 1:27 PM ^

Rich Rod managed to beat a top 10 team? That's a miracle. Of course, it looks like in 2008 Wisconsin finished 7-6, so that win wasn;t nearly as good as it looked.

Either way, that's depressing.

Vasav

September 25th, 2016 at 4:36 PM ^

I loved that game! False hope and all that, but it made me believe in Rod haha. Bad times. But a shining light in an otherwise stormy era.

Wasn't that also the biggest comeback in the big house? And the, I dunno, 500th game at the big house or something?

Trump

September 25th, 2016 at 1:20 PM ^

"There was one drive in the third or fourth quarter, we called the same play like eight times in a row," Michigan quarterback Wilton Speight said Saturday after the team's 49-10 win over Penn State.




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AmayzNblue

September 25th, 2016 at 2:29 PM ^

Agreed. Auburn is garbage again, barely beating Troy, and Georgia tech is....Georgia tech. None of their wins have been overly impressive. 26 points on GT is their most impressive outing to date.




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BLHoke

September 25th, 2016 at 2:59 PM ^

Agreed. I know it's just semantics and we'll get where we wanna go as long as the team handles its business... But if Louisville gets rewarded for looking so impressive (and I think they should), then Clemson should be penalized for looking so unimpressive. Michigan has looked much more impressive through the first 4 weeks of the season.

UofM
38.25 point differential per game
52 PPG (Season low of 45)
13.75 PPGA (Majority from talented, experienced Buffs O that is avging 42.2 PPG, & a fly sweep from a crazy fast track star where a blatant hold was ignored)

Clemson
22.5 point per game differential
33.5 PPG (majority weighted from SC St.)
11 PPGA (Again SC St., anemic Auburn O, shutting down GT TripleO is impressive)




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BornInA2

September 25th, 2016 at 1:23 PM ^

Just keep improving, making fewer, smaller mistakes, and the rankings will take care of themselves.  By my count, there were only two top-25 upsets: Ole Miss over Georgia and LSU losing to Auburn on yet another Les Miles clock management DERP.

Stanford and Washington both had character-building wins. Colorado should be in the top 25 as far as I'm concerned- I think that's going to look like a quality M win by season-end.