AP Poll up to #19, Coaches Poll up to #18. Alabama back to #1
September 29th, 2019 at 3:43 PM ^
Beat Iowa
September 29th, 2019 at 7:49 PM ^
polls are meaningless to us.... Just win out and it will all work out...
September 29th, 2019 at 3:46 PM ^
Why only showing the first 20?
September 29th, 2019 at 4:11 PM ^
Cus MSU disrespekt?
September 29th, 2019 at 4:28 PM ^
Are they still ranked?
September 29th, 2019 at 4:52 PM ^
Yea they moved up 2 spots to 23
September 29th, 2019 at 3:57 PM ^
Lots of room to move up, assuming we keep winning.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:29 PM ^
Now if we can do to Iowa what we just did to Rutger, that should be good for a 5 spot bump.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:35 PM ^
I take no issue with bama being #1, Georgia and LSU should be up there, too. I do take issue with the press trying to cram every other sec team with a pulse in the top 10, however. Every year Auburn, Florida, and (random other SEC team yet to lose) are top 10 until proven otherwise, despite being average football teams.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
How about Texas A&M? It seems like they're ALWAYS ranked, no matter how terrible they are.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:35 PM ^
Aggies were competitive in both their losses to Clemson and Auburn
September 29th, 2019 at 4:56 PM ^
The SEC bias is real.
Also please stop making us a top 10 team every damn preseason.
September 29th, 2019 at 5:16 PM ^
I'm guessing that won't be an issue next year.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
Fuck the Coaches Poll
September 29th, 2019 at 5:36 PM ^
Sideways
September 29th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Looks about right. Very little separation between the top 6, could be a very controversial final standings
September 29th, 2019 at 4:59 PM ^
Except three of them are in the SEC west so whoever wins that division is the only one with a chance to make the playoffs
September 29th, 2019 at 5:00 PM ^
My mistake, Auburn is not in the top 6
September 29th, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
Alabama vs. OSU in the final.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:42 PM ^
Wouldn't surprise me.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:57 PM ^
I'm wondering if LSU's passing game is for real. They play Auburn on Oct 26, then a bye week, then Alabama on Nov 9.
Alabama also has a bye week before that game.
If both are undefeated then it's the equivalent of a playoff game.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:44 PM ^
Not that it matters, but wtf has UCF done to be ranked #18?
September 29th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Idk I think they beat auburn in some bowl game like four years ago so everyone just agreed they always have to be ranked
September 29th, 2019 at 5:40 PM ^
This happens every year. Kansas, USF, Mizzou, Memphis, etc. Random schools make it to #2 at some point in a given season by default because they get a token ranking, then fail to lose while all the other teams who play a real schedule do.
September 30th, 2019 at 7:43 AM ^
They've won 4 games, one against Stanford and lost a close road game to a solid Pitt team.
They've done as much as we have.
September 29th, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
schedule against 5 teams in the top 15, plus State, Indiana and Maryland? Woof
September 29th, 2019 at 4:57 PM ^
Hate to spoil the season, but
The playoffs will be Bama, Clemson, Georgia if they only lose once, OSU if they go undefeated, or Oklahoma if they go undefeated. Those are the five teams that have a shot, and that's it. I'm not forgetting about LSU or Auburn or anything, those are the five. Clemson and Bama will embarrass the two teams they play in the semis and Bama will win the championship because Clemson won last year
September 29th, 2019 at 5:08 PM ^
Clemson is no where near as good as last year. Struggled at home against a mediocre A&M team and should have to lost to UNC.
OSU and UGA would both beat Clemson.
September 29th, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
I want to agree with you, but even just last year I watched Clemson have to claw tooth and nail to beat Syracuse by 4 at home. They then went on to be undefeated and for people to claim they were one of the best teams of all time. They don't play anyone until literally December in the playoffs. Until they lose, you have to assume they'll do what they always do
September 29th, 2019 at 5:45 PM ^
2 years ago they struggled against Auburn and FSU, and needed a miracle to beat Ncstate, then lost to Pitt. Then beat bama. They scraped by Virginia Tech then shut out Urban 31-0. They do this every year.
September 29th, 2019 at 8:07 PM ^
Clemson lost their top four defensive players to the draft. Three in the 1st round.
September 29th, 2019 at 9:30 PM ^
Michigan lost their 4 top defenders, two in the first round.
September 29th, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
Why even watch then?
most teams have only played 4 or 5 games. Still over half a season left. There will be upsets and there could be key injuries. Most likely Clemson and Bama will get in but who knows what will happen with the last two spots.
Also, I could see Bama losing to LSU or Georgia or maybe both ( not likely)
September 29th, 2019 at 7:20 PM ^
Clemson is in because of their soft schedule, coupled with the credit they've stored up over the past few years. Even if they somehow manage to lose a game, they'll still be in, and there just aren't two possible losses left on their schedule.
Alabama, on the other hand, could miss out this year. Their defense is really young and not playing that well. It's entirely possible that they could lose two regular season games. Unless there's total chaos, that would leave them out.
I think the most likely scenario is two teams from the SEC, Clemson, and either Oklahoma or Ohio State. I think the next most likely scenario is one team from SEC, Clemson, Oklahoma, and Ohio State. I think this talk of three SEC teams is nonsense, even if they deserved it, I'm pretty sure the powers that be aren't stupid enough to believe they can keep the rest of the country emotionally invested if they pull a stunt like that.
September 29th, 2019 at 10:05 PM ^
Nope. It will be Auburn, LSU, Clemson, and Oklahoma.
September 30th, 2019 at 1:14 AM ^
Wrong. It’ll be Auburn, Alabama, Georgia, and LSU.
September 29th, 2019 at 5:38 PM ^
UM controls its destiny. They have 5 ranked teams ahead of them. Take care of Business.
September 29th, 2019 at 5:44 PM ^
#13 in SP+ as well. Offense jumped from 78th to 48th and the defense is 6th.
September 29th, 2019 at 6:04 PM ^
Clemson should not be #2. They got lucky that NC made a stupid play call, else they would of lost that one. Had Michigan been ranked #1 and played a game like Clemson did yesterday, it would have been out of the top 10 for sure.
September 29th, 2019 at 6:54 PM ^
I didn’t agree with UNC going for two in that situation. If it had been a walk-off, or near walk-off leaving Clemson only a few seconds, I’d have been ok with it. But, it wasn’t — IIRC, Clemson would have still had over a minute on the clock and a time out (maybe). I feel like Mack’s decision required two things to go his way to actually win : first, convert and then second, stop Clemson — there was still ample time for Clemson to kick a FG. Either way, Clemson would still have a chance to win, but he chose the one path that could, if they failed to convert, guarantee a lose. That seems like poor analytics to me.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:31 PM ^
Easy to second guess in hindsight. Probably was the right decision to go for two, just not a great play call.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:48 PM ^
Of course it’s easy to second guess a decision like that. But, as I said, why choose the one path that could guarantee your team loses the game? Whether you convert or kick you have to play defense and try to stop Clemson. There’s only one guaranteed outcome in all the possible scenarios : fail to convert and you lose the game, guaranteed. Why choose the one path that leads to a guaranteed lose?
September 29th, 2019 at 10:37 PM ^
I begged and pleaded with the TV screen to not go for two, based on how they were playing it seemed like OT was the way to go.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:45 PM ^
They gave up 21 points all game. I don't think it was automatic that Clemson was just going to march up the field in a minute. The NC defense was doing a good job. Liked the decision but hated the play call.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:59 PM ^
Again — not sure why this is so hard — why choose the one path that could seal the lose? So you’re up 1 point, and still lose. At least you gave your team a chance to win. Basically, they scored too quickly and that quick score should have, IMO, flipped the analytics to kick and play defense. If they scored with :03 ok, try to win with a walk off two point conversion.
September 29th, 2019 at 9:18 PM ^
One of the commentators mentioned that eventually Clemson’s talent would rise up and win the game. I think unc didn’t have much of a chance to win in ot.
I get your point though
September 30th, 2019 at 10:46 AM ^
I didn’t really agree with that. OT in college is a crapshoot, one play can seal a game. If they had played 60 minutes even already then I don’t see any reason for Clemson suddenly having success just because it OT. I mean yeah, the more OTs there are the more likely it favors Clemson, but that would be a silly reason to go for 2 prematurely. Do that in OT when it is literally “win or lose” situation.
Maybe if there was less than 30 seconds left you go for two, but even if they had converted with over a minute left I fully expected Clemson to get into FG territory and win it. I think Clemson’s D knew it wasn’t a strict win or lose situation so they didn’t feel as much pressure on that play as UNC did.
Its unfortunate, UNC should have won that game quite frankly.
September 29th, 2019 at 9:45 PM ^
Your argument is irrational because you are only looking at the downsides... the upside of going for two and getting it is that you only need to stop Clemson from making an unlikely long drive with a minute left. The longer the game goes on the more likely the better team is going to win. Shortening the game was their best chance.
September 29th, 2019 at 7:43 PM ^
One game at a time. Iowa is the next victim
September 29th, 2019 at 8:33 PM ^
A loss to Iowa should put M back to about 28. Then a beat down by ND will end all the lingering false hope of a respectable season. Hopefully Jimmy stays a couple more years to assure Ohio State dominance.