SB Nation's Preseason "BCS" Rankings
For our dissection I present another source of opinion and discussion...
Michigan is ranked #17. Alabama is #1, followed by Oregon, Georgia, Stanford and Texas A&M.
What, you say? No Ohio? No Notre Dame? Not in the Top Five...
http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2013/8/19/4633516/college-foot…
12 days - Go Blue!
August 19th, 2013 at 2:44 PM ^
Including the actual computer rankings. More than anything, it continues to highlight that far too much power is in the hands of the computers. Can't wait for a selection committee a la the NCAA basketball tourney. The purely data-based rankings are extremely useful, but they shouldn't be 100% decisive.
August 19th, 2013 at 4:00 PM ^
August 19th, 2013 at 8:37 PM ^
I would settle for a champions only playoff. What? No Notre Dame? Let them join a conference and share all of that money they find so important.
August 19th, 2013 at 2:44 PM ^
Texas A&M, Georgia, LSU, and Notre Dame are overrated. South Carolina, Clemson, and Ohio State should probably move up.
The four teams I listed as overrated lost an awful lot off of last year's teams. In particular, I think the SEC teams are going to have a really competitive conference season with multiple losses for everyone except Alabama. Depending on the timing of those losses, those teams won't be top-5 level at the end of the season.
Michigan is about right, given recent results and the generic profile of the team we have coming back. That said, if we beat Notre Dame, get ready for a top-5 ranking on November 2nd when we roll into East Lansing. Other than the Irish, our schedule is super back loaded.
August 19th, 2013 at 3:00 PM ^
It looks like the differences are far more striking between the simulated BCS here and the AP poll, where the average differential in ranking is actually -2.04 place. The average differential between rankings on SBNation and the Coaches poll, on the other hand, is only -0.48. That's for the Top 25 only anyway.
In the expanded rankings (all 55 or so), only 3 SEC teams fail to make it into this list, and there are 8 teams from the Pac-12, 7 from the Big Ten and 6 each from the ACC and Big XII, so about 70% of the entire list comes from major conferences, which seems about right lately.
Is it just me or is it becoming a thing to cluster the Big Ten in the 15-25 range in most polls now?
August 19th, 2013 at 3:01 PM ^
I kind of wish college football would do away with pre-season rankings.
August 20th, 2013 at 8:42 AM ^
August 19th, 2013 at 3:15 PM ^
With the exception of at California... Its basically like scrimmaging high school teams.. No reason for them to be in top 5. These rankings shouldn't even be out until week 6.
August 19th, 2013 at 4:10 PM ^
Their rankings make little sense when you compare to their Bowl Game and Conference Prediction. Most notably, they have Michigan winning the Big Ten Championship, but not in the Rose Bowl.
I know it's a prediction and of no real value, but they need to make sure they apply the data consistently.
UPDATE - nevermind - read it incorrectly. I thought they were predicting the Big Ten Championship, but they were listing # of B10 Championships each school won. My bad.