Post Spring Practice Top 25 by CBS Sports
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-top-25… Four Big Ten teams in top 25, three in top 10.
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Way too damn early to mean anything.
Did not see any of the teams practice and it is way too damn early anyway.
Games are played for a reason (for cliche lovers).
But it is nice to see the Big Ten and in particular the East Division get national respect, meaningless as it is.
CBS released a post-spring practice top 25, and you'll never guess what happened next!
Is it a fucking slideshow? I don’t want to click now.
It's not
1. Alabama 2. Clemson 3. Georgia 4. Ohio State 5. Michigan State 6. Wisconsin 7. Penn State 8. Oklahoma 9. Miami (Florida) 10. Auburn 11. Mississippi State 12. Washington 13. Stanford 14. Virginia Tech 15. Michigan 16. USC 17. Notre Dame 18. West Virginia 19. Boise State 20. Texas 21. Texas A & M 22. Florida 23. Oregon 24. Florida State 25. LSU
I don't think Molestation State or Predator State are going to grope their way that high
So Molestation State is Penn State and Predator State is Michigan State? Just making sure I have this correct...
MSU is PSU and PSU is MSU.
There’s four Big 10 teams in the top ten (4 in the top 7 to be exact) and five in the top 25. Maybe OP meant Big Ten East teams...or maybe he said that and I read it wrong. If so, my apologies.
I don’t understand how anyone can have MSU ranked ahead of us. I’m guessing if the sportsbooks put a line on our game with them right now, we would be favored by more than a touchdown.
MSU had a better season than us last year (albeit we had QB injuries), and return nearly their entire team. Why wouldn't they be ranked ahead of us? We have a lot to prove on the field this season.
From 3 and 9.
Yeah, this article is so fluffy that .. um...
Help me out here.
You're ready for your appearance in the Houston 500?
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You were right.
Welp, now I have to google it. At work.
How is your name Notes but you give zero notes on the content of the article you post?
with almost zero commentary about how the teams looked in spring practices?
Well did you see the author?
Michigan 15
Bama 1
Osu 4
Msu 5 lol
Nd 17
For those that don’t want to click.
I’m not trying to be a Sparty hater but I mean c’mon. They’re going to have a pretty good team but color me shocked if they finish the season on the top 10. I just don’t get the Lewerke hype at all. Granted I’ve only seen a couple of his games but each time I’ve seen him I haven’t been overly impressed. Am I missing something?
They have been good over the last 10 years... Give em credit.
Double post
I’m not trying to make it seem like I don’t think they’ll be good. I fully expect them to have a solid team and for us to be in a dog fight when the time comes. But objectively speaking I just don’t see a top 5 team. Top 15? Edging into the top 10? I can see that. Top 5 I just can’t wrap my head around.
to say that Sparty will suck this year...
Oh wait - I am. And they will. They will not be Top 25 by end of the year. We are going to destroy them in front of their weak ass, inferiority complex, bush league school fanbase.
Fuck'em...
that's what we've said for like 5 years now
the last two hoops games against Sparty this year - and we shoved it right up their overrated ass.
So much fun - just looking for more of the same.
Then I guess you're right, MSU will be bad. /s
That's the spirit. And don't apologize for driving in the stake.
I think the main argument for MSU is their favorable schedule, as the article points out. They get Michigan and OSU at home. They play PSU and Nebraska on the road. It’s not that hard to see them winning three out of those four and finishing with one conference loss. Even though they aren’t a top 5 team talent wise, their schedule could get them to a good place.
I always find that to be such a weird qualifier. I'm not criticizing you, just pointing out that this always gets brought up. "So and so is ranked here because of their schedule." What does their schedule have to do with how good they are?!
It's because these jabronis who write articles like this aren't trying to be accurate based on how good teams actually are, they want to be able to look back on this article a year from now and see that they got a lot right. Journalism is always at its finest when articles are in list form...
But the odds of them playing any of those games in a monsoon remains low.
Rarely top 5 good. They weren't particularly good last year and obviously terrible the year before. I would think being ranked around us at 15 would make more sense. I actually think PSU is overrated too.
I think he's going to be pretty good. As usual, that game is not going to be for the faint of heart.
Are you sure it was against Michigan? He was 11-22 for 94 yards for 1 TD. I'll grant you that he did have 61 rushing yards and a TD but overall he had a pretty pedestrian game.
effect is only applicable to John O'Korn?
If you recall, they didn't score anymore points after the monsoon either. But they were ahead at that point, so it didn't matter for them.
Probably has something to do with finishing top 10 2 of the last 3 years and bringing back the most starters of anyone in college football. But thats just a guess.
Michigan finished in the top 12 2/3 years and also returns basically their whole team. I'm less than concerned.
they were shut out against alabama?
yes, they had a good season and have been a good team over the last decade, but not sure they are a top 5 team next year.
No, I am with you. Lewerke is "fine", he's not "good". He's not a top five QB in the conference. They have no running game. They have decent but not great receivers and a merely competent OL. Their D is stout up the middle with their DTs and Bachie but they have no organic pass rush and their depth at DE and LB is bad. Their CBs are good be overrated and their Ss are mediocre.
At the end of the day they have to be credited for winning 10 games last year. However, it was another one of those classic bullshit Dantonio seasons where they were just a couple bounces from 11-2 (could have easily won that Northwestern game) and just a couple bounces from 4-8 (could have easily lost to Iowa, Us, Minnesota, Indiana, and PSU). I'm just not convinced that they are a tough team, no matter how many starters they return.
I can already see the responses to this - "well I sure wish we would 10 games, even if it's luck", "well they beat us!", and "when are stupid Michigan fans just going to fess up and give MSU credit for winning?" Well, you don't have to give credit without context. MSU wins, but the style in which they do is not convincing and certainly has not persuaded me that they are a skilled outfit. I fully expect us to smack them in EL this year, a la 2016.
I agree Dr. Giving them credit is one thing. This site goes out of their way to praise them. We to hear “they’ve been in the top 10 for 2 out of the last 3 years,” but it completely ignores they are one season from a 3 win shitshow where they kicked a bunch of rapists and a racist off the team. They are good and they have been good, but they are just a shit team from a horrible city and their fanbase can eat a whole bunch of bags of dicks
To be fair they are bring the racist back so maybe they're going to be good again...wait what?
they beat us, finished 10-3 and had a strong bowl win. None of which we did last year. Their 2016 season isn't of any relevance at all any more.
Their 2017 season isn’t of any relevance either but you get to mention it?