New AP Poll: 11/18/12

It’s by default.

They better enjoy it while they can. I think going forward Ohio State and scUM (maybe not next year) will consistently be in the Top 10. USC and ND is on it’s way back up and will keep a top 10 team. Oregon will be there as long as Chip is there. Then you have FSU, Texas, Oklahoma, and the surprise sleepers (Kansas State.)

The SEC having four and five teams in the top 10 will be a thing of the past very soon. They will always have two or three there, though

 

The polls are a joke! Why don't they just rank all the SEC schools!

 

Ohio State Drops in the ranking's as a result of a VERY POOR LACK LUSTER PERFORMANCE AT PRACTICE this Saturday. The pollster's confirmed their findings by voting the Buckeyes below two SEC power houses Alabama and Georgia. Both the offense and defense just did not show up to play. Attendance for saturday showing was way down. Coach Meyer did not attend the presser and could not be reached for a comment. Signed: AP news paper writer in mississippi who thinks he knows football.

 

When's the last time the SEC didn't have a team in the top 3?

 

K state and Oregon have it set as long as they keep playing the way they have...and Florida struggled against ULL, if that was anything other than an sec team they would of dropped out of top 10

 

I think writers everywhere need to acknowledge that they (Alabama) have one of the easiest schedules of the SEC "power" teams... They barely beat LSU, the toughest team they have to play this year, and they lost to A&M, a team that most writer's say they should've handled easily... I wouldn't mind to see Georgia win out and get the SEC title this year... in that case, if the SEC does get repped again in the NC game, Georgia probably won't beat K State, Oregon, or ND...

Georgia has had one of the easiest schedules out of the entire SEC. The only tough games they have on their slate were SC and Florida and they split the pair... and honestly Florida shouldn't have lost that game... they beat themselves in that one and gave it to Georgia on a silver platter with all those mistakes.

I can understand the logic of breaking the tie however, merely on the fact that Georgia played a game and played well, whereas we had the bye week. In my Harbin system a team generally drops 3 to 6 spots on a bye week (depending on how far into the season it is) but should they keep winning they climb right back up the next week.

 

No one is stopping Oregon this year. Might slow them down, but Jesus H. their offense is absurd.

 

Never say never.

Go Bucks!

 

wow sec holds 4-9 spot on bcs... A&m jumped 7 spots, if any other team had this may in top 10 all we woudl hear is how weak competition is, Gators didnt even move spot after it took all 4 quarters to squeeze out a win against LLU...in the swamp

 

Don't you love it that a&m was a middle tier team in the big 12 and now that they are in the SEC they are a national power house?? The poll system is BS and ESPN exploits it!

 

I would love to see a KState vs Oregon National Championship. I might actually tune in for that! And it would definitely mean the end to "SEC Dominance"

 

The SEC will get a team in there. It's just the way things seem to work out. Either Georgia or Alabama will play in the National Championship game.

 

Hmm. Grass is Still Green, the Sky is Still Blue, and the SEC is Still Overrated (2012 Edition) | Any Football Fan :sifone:

 

I don't know, I think the argument against him would be that the SEC has more very good teams than any other conference.

How many does the Big Ten have? Big 12? Pac 10? ACC? Big East? It Depends on how you define "very good", which can be debated. If we go by winning 9+ games (as it stands right now at 7:29 pm on a game day...):

SEC: 5
BIG: 2
Big 12: 1
Pac 12: 2
Big East: 2
ACC: 2

Yeah, I know, things are a lot more complicated than just comparing records to records because of strength of schedule and yaddy yaddy yadda. My point isn't to get to technical, just to say that with 5 "very good" teams compared to at most 2 in any other conference, the SEC would seem to have a leg up in terms of competitive strength. Sure their bad teams outweigh their good teams, but that's true of every conference, and in this case, it's less so for the SEC. He talks about facing only 3 great teams as a weak schedule. What's he comparing it to, the NFL? In the Big Ten we have to worry about maybe 2 games a year? And usually we only have maybe 1 game where we pretty much expect a nail biter.

I don't disagree that the SEC is overrated, I just don't think he's making a convincing argument.

 

On another note, sucks that Alabama and Georgia are ranked ahead of us. Could that effectively block our bid for an AP National Championship?