Too-early Week 8 Top 25 Musings
October 15th, 2022 at 11:20 PM ^
You are grossly underestimating how much weight being able to say “We beat Bama” carries. Whether it’s fair or not.
That carries probably twice the weight with voters that it should. But beating Bryce Young and Nick Saban is a bigger feat than beating Sean Clifford and James Franklin. It just is. Tennessee, frankly, probably should be ahead of Michigan tomorrow.
Michigan will still have its chance, though. If they beat OSU in Columbus, that will be more than enough for the committee to pencil them in. Harbaugh and Co. are still very much in control of their destiny. Don’t worry about the polls tomorrow. Michigan just needs to win, and if they keep doing that, they’ll be where they want to be.
October 15th, 2022 at 11:31 PM ^
While you are undoubtedly absolutely correct, I’m just going to point out for the record that there’s not the slightest bit of evidence Alabama is actually any good this year. They looked bad in Austin. They looked bad in College Station. Their best win is Arkansas, and who’s impressed by that?
Heck, the only evidence they were any good last year was the SEC Championship game, and I will go to my grave believing that Georgia didn’t put in their best effort because they knew they were already in the playoffs and a loss would get a second ESS-EEE-SEE team in.
If their uniforms said Virginia Tech instead of Alabama, they wouldn’t get the amount of deference that they do.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:47 AM ^
Everything you state is correct. That said, their jerseys still say Alabama, so beating them and their Heisman winner and legendary coach carries a ton of weight - more than beating Penn State, frankly - despite them maybe being the worst Alabama team in recent memory.
October 15th, 2022 at 11:25 PM ^
Too much blind love for the SEC for this to happen.
October 15th, 2022 at 11:24 PM ^
1. UGA
2. Tenn
3. Bama
4. OSU
5. Clem
6. Mich
Just a prediction based on flimsy evidence.
October 16th, 2022 at 1:15 AM ^
Nope. Alabama drops to 5 or 6. They have not looked like the old Alabama all year and have had some close calls. I think Georgia and OSU stay 1 and 2 followed closely by Tenn and UM.
October 15th, 2022 at 11:58 PM ^
I've already seen journo's on twitter saying Michigan dominating a top 10 Penn St shows that PSU was hugely overrated and shows the Big 10 has no depth with Michigan and OSU the only good teams. Prepare to drop again after beating a top 10 team by 20+
1. Georgia
2. OSU
3. Tennessee
4. Clemson
5. Alabama
6. Michigan
October 16th, 2022 at 1:18 AM ^
Unfortunately, you might be right but I do think we had a much harder time with Maryland, Iowa, and Indiana than PSU.
October 16th, 2022 at 2:12 AM ^
I wouldn’t be shocked if Tennessee jumped the idle OSU.
October 16th, 2022 at 7:27 AM ^
SEC bias rules
October 16th, 2022 at 12:02 AM ^
#’s 3,7,8, and 10 lost, and number 4 barely hung on for a 6 pt win against a mediocre Florida State team.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:02 AM ^
Today, Bama committed more penalties vs TN than Bama has ever committed in a football game.
Bama put 49 on TN at TN.
TN had to win with a last-play FG
Michigan mauls #10 PSU, with 400+ yards on the ground...
But TN will pass UM? Ridiculous. Absurd.
The only question left tonight regarding the top 5: who will be #3? UM or Clemson?
#GoBlue
October 16th, 2022 at 2:24 AM ^
I wonder if you’re underestimating the pro-SEC/anti-Michigan bias of a critical mass of poll voters, but we’ll see tomorrow.
October 16th, 2022 at 12:04 AM ^
4 of the top 10 lost — real moving day!
October 16th, 2022 at 1:19 AM ^
Doesn't matter. Just keep winning.
October 16th, 2022 at 2:50 AM ^
Well, everyone knows that Bama is the best team in the history of the universe, so any team that beats them must be amazing. But you can’t really fault Bama for losing to a team good enough to beat the best team ever. So the rankings should be
1) Alabama
2) Tennessee
3) Georgia (they beat Alabama last year)
4) OSU (the Bama of the North)
5) Clempson (the Bama of the ACC, and Dabo is so dreamy and inspirational)
6) TCU (because somebody voted Michigan 25th)
7) Michigan
October 16th, 2022 at 6:25 AM ^
1 Georgia
2 OSU
3 Tennessee
4 Michigan
5 Clemson
6 Ole Miss
7 UCLA
8 Alabama
9 TCU
10 Oregon
October 16th, 2022 at 7:30 AM ^
Flip Tenn and OSU. You're forgetting about the SEC bias
October 16th, 2022 at 9:00 AM ^
1. Georgia 7-0 (-)
2. Tennessee 6–0 (+4)
3. OSU 6-0 (-1)
4. Michigan 7-0 (+1)
5. Clemson 7-0 (-1)
6. Ole Miss 7-0 (+3)
7. Alabama 6-1 (-4)
8. TCU 6-0 (+5)
9. UCLA 6-0 (+2)
10. USC 6-1 (-3)
This would be how I’d rank it but I’m sure they won’t have Bama drop that far. They will be 5 or 6.