2009 College FB 120 team rankings from Yahoo/Rivals
Interesting article ranking college football for 2009. They should be getting into the top 49 today. Of the 6 BCS conferences the Pac 10 has 5 teams rated in the 50-120 range including the worst rated team at 104. Every other BCS confence has 4 except....the Big East with 3.
If you look at Big 10 vs SEC OOC's, The SEC plays 12 games against the bottom 20 with LSU playing 3, Tenn and UK 2 each. They also play Fla. St., Okie St, Az. St, Ga. Tech (3), NC State, UCLA, Va. Tech, Tex. A&M, and WVU. SEC plays 8 games against FCS teams.
Big 10 plays 8 games against the bottom 20 with 3 of those attributed to Northwestern. Also play Virg, ND (3), Oregon, Missou, Cinci, Fresno St (2), Cal, Iowa St, Zona, and USC. The Big 10 also has 8 FCS. Yet ESPN rails on the Big 10.
Northwestern has OOC's against 3 of the bottom 20 and a FCS game plus no Michigan or OSU.
link?
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=954694
Wisco is #49, Michigan is at worst 48? I hope they know something we don't about our team.
Maybe they forgot about last year.
They have OBVIOUSLY seen "Weapon of Choice" DUH. We can't lose if Tate scores 5 TD's a game!
the other team scores 6 TDs?
huh smart guy?
WE CANNOT LOSE IF TATE SCORES 5 TD's! It's now a rule.
The best part about this is that he even wears number 5.
What happened last year?
College football was canceled last year.
of that Simpsons episode where they were on a German tour and the brouchure was missing 1939-1945. And when Homer questions that, the guide snaps really fast "EVEYONE WAS ON VACATION!"
Except it was family guy.
You beat me too it when Brian Stewie and Mort go back in time to and need to find uranium because their time machine ran out. very funny episode hahahahhahahhahahhaaaaa silent movie porn!!!!!!!
We went 9-3 and beat Florida in the Capital One Bowl, remember?*
*Appalachian State was also erased from my memory.
how do you know it was erased? hmm? HMMM!!!!!????????
I have yet to empty the Recycle Bin.
How does the button come up when I push down? HOW?!
something of a minor miracle, but a win is a win.
Everyone vas on vacation. Punch was served. We were invited.
Apparently my evite got lost in the interweb tubes. Is the rumor about the appearance of a unicorn-riding otter true?
Wisco is #49, Michigan is at worst 48? I hope they know something we don't about our team.
Being ranked in the top 50 isn't the sign of confidence you think it is. Keep in mind that the teams at the bottom of the final top 25 are usually 8-4 or so. A team that goes 7-5 in a major conference will probably be somewhere between #30 and #40. #48 in the country basically translates to 6-6 overall. That should be achievable.
Good point. Top 50 indicates a bowl game, I'll take it.
Me too. I think there were 32 bowl games last year. So, best 64 teams make it.
Now I guess I'll have to tell 'em
That I got no cerebellum...
That I got no mind to lose
I'll take top 50.
Bowl season. Right or wrong, bowl season results have become the barometer for how good a conference is any given year. Until the Big 10/11 starts winning more than, oh say, 1 bowl game a year the conference will continue to get hammered by the media.
I know Jim Delaney(sp?) and the AD's of the Big 10/11 love the revenue generated from the Big 10/11 sending two teams to BCS bowls every year, but that is a large factor in what is killing the conference during bowl season. Playing USC in L.A. and two SEC (best conference EVER!) teams in Florida (anyone remember how much light blue and organge was at the Cap One bowl?) doesn't help, either.
The NYT website has been running a countdown for nearly two months, by a guy named Paul Myerberg. Ridiculously thorough, excellent coverage of every single team. Link: The Countdown So Far
Also, he's nearly halfway through and no M in sight. Hooray!
It's hard to take their optimism too seriously since they had us at preseason #30 before last season :-(
http://collegefootball.rivals.com/content.asp?SID=1144&CID=815280
So I have recently befriended a few of the football players that are pretty good and going to be sophomores and juniors and seniors. We were talking about running and they said Denard is fast and that the offense is easy to learn. So fast in fact that he is the fastest player on the team.
I can't post new content cuz i'm new but i'm not one of those people to comment fakeness. I have been a loyal reader of this blog for a while and just made my name.... undergrad gonna be a junior in the fall
go blue
how come we sucked so bad at it last year and that was a vanilla version. Then again, learning an offense and executing it are to two totally different things.
we did not have a qb on the team who could run or throw. that usually correlates highly with sucking pretty bad.
all the fumbles on the read option handoff for such an easy offense to learn.
We were #25 in the coach's pre-season poll last year.
are good for one thing. Toilet paper. The reality is that no one really has a clue other than Oklahoma, Florida, and USC will be pretty good. All these people who get paid to make predictions got burned last year, and they're scared to say that UM will be any good. This will be two years in a row that they are way off base, and I can't wait to see this team put up some gaudy numbers on offense.
When RR's offense is run correctly, it's deadly. When the lineman have a good idea of what is going on, and the QB has both running and passing skills - this train is hard to stop. Now that our offense won't be turning the ball over 9 times in a game, or having 25 second possesions multiple times, the defense won't look so bad. I realize that our defense last year was pretty bad at the back end, but it just makes things worse when the offense looks like a bunch of limbless seals (no offense to Boutros). I really just want to fast forward my life to September 4th, so I can get in my car and drive to Ann Arbor right now! AHHHH!! I hate waiting, but there is no choice.
Ditto.
Are you my twin brother? Same exact thing I was thinking and feeling. I just didn't have time to type it until now.
What am I thinking about now?
Boobs.
YES!!
Preseason rankings do matter. If you have three 11-1 teams that are ranked 1-3, the 2 with the highest preseason rankings will probably get to go to the championship game.
In the top 50…I’ll take that. It’s better then last year.
One thing that needs to be brought up here is that with us ranking 48 or better, there are at least 72 teams that suck more than us. WOOOO FRICKING HOOOOOO BABY.
48 is Pitt
After watching last season's disasterous display, what makes you think that we're better than Pitt?
I think IowaBlueFan is just pointing out that we must be ranked higher than Pitt in the Yahoo/Rivals rankings, since they were revealed to be their #48 team.
(1) It's 2009, not 2008;
(2) Rich Rod in his second year and all that
(3) At least 5 solid wins on the schedule (Western, Eastern, Indiana, Delaware St., Purdue).
(4) 2 good QBs for the system
(5) more talent
(6) plenty of O-line experience
(7) absent injuries, a pretty solid starting defense.
Number 46: Rivals Article