The preseason coaches poll is out!!!!!!

beej67 said:
This.


The last three seasons we've had expectations near this high were 2006, 2001, and 1999.
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According to ESPN, we weren't preseason ranking in 2006...
Even so, not too shabby that 2006 season was. Given anyone instead of Pat Nix and we likely of made the Orange Bowl.

Edit: god I hope that doesn't mean that the closest we've had to a preseason ranking like this in the last 5 years was 30 something votes........
 
Re the person who asked about Spurrier, I wondered if perhaps he had no vote this year, but I confirmed that he does have one. SEC and ACC each have six voting coaches. Anyone know how it is determined who gets a vote?


The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 59 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2009 season: Robb Akey, Idaho; Gary Andersen, Utah State; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Tim Beckman, Toledo; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tim Brewster, Minnesota; J.D. Brookhart, Akron; Rich Brooks, Kentucky; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Neil Callaway, UAB; Dave Christensen, Wyoming; Dave Clawson, Bowling Green; Mario Cristobal, Florida International; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Butch Davis, North Carolina; Todd Dodge, North Texas; Ron English, Eastern Michigan; Larry Fedora, Southern Miss; Al Golden, Temple; Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Jim Harbaugh, Stanford; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Brian Kelly, Cincinnati; Steve Kragthorpe, Louisville; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Jim Leavitt, South Florida; Bill Lynch, Indiana; Les Miles, LSU; Dan Mullen, Mississippi State; Rick Neuheisel, UCLA; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; Tom O'Brien, N.C. State; Stan Parrish, Ball State; Gary Patterson, TCU; Bo Pelini, Nebraska; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, Michigan; Nick Saban, Alabama; Mike Sanford, UNLV; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Mike Sherman, Texas A&M; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Kevin Sumlin, Houston; Jeff Tedford, California; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; DeWayne Walker, New Mexico State; Charlie Weatherbie, Louisiana-Monroe; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tommy West, Memphis; Paul Wulff, Washington State; Ron Zook, Illinois.
 
GTLiebs said:
I don't see why we'd go down more than one spot for beating a team we're suppose to beat (I personally think we shouldn't drop at all), but with VPI playing Bama, Georgia playing OKSU, Oregon playing a perfectly losable game against Boise St., California playing Maryland (whom they lost to last year, so things could happen) and hell even Ohio St might get horrifically upset by Navy (just cause its Navy :D), we're actually likely to move up a spot if the dice fall our a way a few times.
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Well, I guess it is more likely we'll stay in our spot because of those big games.
 
6 ACC coaches in there and we play 5 of them.
Is dat good or bad?
 
Xihix said:
Well, I guess it is more likely we'll stay in our spot because of those big games.
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I'm not getting this. I can see the VPI v Bama game not affecting our rank, but if Georgia and California lose they drop below us guaranteed (also true for Oregon but in their case the team that beat them would leapfrog us).
Now I may just be inexperience, but how in the hell could we not move up if say, only Georgia loses, falls below us, and thus a space in front of us opens up. What is someone behind us who played the same kind of team we did going to jump over us? I just don't get how playing and beating an FCS team on opening weekend is going to hurt us in the polls?
 
The Nadlickers should enjoy this now, after their opening game loss, they will be tied with the mighty Fish Eaters from South Bend, and I hope they never get back up.
 
GTLiebs said:
I'm not getting this. I can see the VPI v Bama game not affecting our rank, but if Georgia and California lose they drop below us guaranteed (also true for Oregon but in their case the team that beat them would leapfrog us).
Now I may just be inexperience, but how in the hell could we not move up if say, only Georgia loses, falls below us, and thus a space in front of us opens up. What is someone behind us who played the same kind of team we did going to jump over us? I just don't get how playing and beating an FCS team on opening weekend is going to hurt us in the polls?
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Because teams don't move much after beating cupcakes.
 
Xihix said:
Because teams don't move much after beating cupcakes.
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Aha, I have facts for a counter argument instead of my the stuff that falls out of my head.

In 2007 we had beaten Notre Dame pretty badly and gotten us a ranking of 21, as shown:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex?seasonYear=2007&weekNumber=2&seasonType=2

The next week we destroyed Samford, and FCS team.
Where are we afters? FIFTEEN!!!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex?seasonYear=2007&weekNumber=3&seasonType=2

Not saying I agree with that but, hell, crazier **** has almost certainly happened (I call that the Liebs Law).
 
GTLiebs said:
Aha, I have facts for a counter argument instead of my the stuff that falls out of my head.

In 2007 we had beaten Notre Dame pretty badly and gotten us a ranking of 21, as shown:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex?seasonYear=2007&weekNumber=2&seasonType=2

The next week we destroyed Samford, and FCS team.
Where are we afters? FIFTEEN!!!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/rankingsindex?seasonYear=2007&weekNumber=3&seasonType=2

Not saying I agree with that but, hell, crazier **** has almost certainly happened (I call that the Liebs Law).
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Many people don't factor in the other games when they predict things like dropping in the polls. The only way we're going to drop is if the final score of our game is close enough that a minimum of two teams behind us leapfrog us. We already know we will move ahead of the Ok St/Ugag loser, and Boise State would only move ahead of us with a win over Oregon which would also move Oregon behind us. Most of the other teams behind us are also playing cupcakes, so unless BYU were to beat Oklahoma or we were to struggle mightily against J'Ville State, we are staying put or moving up a little.
 
To everyone wondering about Spurrier, he was asked to stop his practice of voting for Duke every year, "For the integrity of the polls". I'm too lazy to look up a link, but this happened either last year, or the year before.
 
If we can get through Clemson and Miami unscathed, we're likely looking at around #10 vs. #15 matchup with UNC. I just looked at the week 4 schedule and the only games that would seem to even come close to that in regards to importance are Cal-Oregon and Penn State-Iowa. Anyone think we have a chance of Gameday if it works out with both teams being 3-0? Or would they be reluctant to return to Atlanta so soon after the Chicken Classic?
 
GTSaxophone said:
To everyone wondering about Spurrier, he was asked to stop his practice of voting for Duke every year, "For the integrity of the polls". I'm too lazy to look up a link, but this happened either last year, or the year before.
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I did not know that.

Of course mocking Duke is not that cute when you're struggling to get bowl eligible at South Carolina rather than coaching top 10 Florida.
 
gtfan088 said:
If we can get through Clemson and Miami unscathed, we're likely looking at around #10 vs. #15 matchup with UNC. I just looked at the week 4 schedule and the only games that would seem to even come close to that in regards to importance are Cal-Oregon and Penn State-Iowa. Anyone think we have a chance of Gameday if it works out with both teams being 3-0? Or would they be reluctant to return to Atlanta so soon after the Chicken Classic?
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They're not doing gameday for UNC - GT unless James Worthy and Mark Price are playing.
 
Allen Koholic said:
The coaches poll is generally crap and should probably be overhauled.
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It always amazes me when a GT fan totally sticks his foot in his mouth like this.

We WON the Coaches Poll in 1990 to win a share of the NC. Without the coaches poll we are second to a Colorado team that had one loss and should have had 2 more on top of it considering that BS 5th down and the Rocket Ismail punt return called back.

Who is better at voting.. Coaches? Or a bunch of dip**** pencil necked writers who don't know dick about the game?

Come on man, use your head. :pat:
 
gtfan088 said:
If we can get through Clemson and Miami unscathed, we're likely looking at around #10 vs. #15 matchup with UNC. I just looked at the week 4 schedule and the only games that would seem to even come close to that in regards to importance are Cal-Oregon and Penn State-Iowa. Anyone think we have a chance of Gameday if it works out with both teams being 3-0? Or would they be reluctant to return to Atlanta so soon after the Chicken Classic?
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I'd doubt it only because we are the first good team UNC plays in their schedule. The ones before aren't all necessarily cupcakes but they aren't going to be in the top 30 or 35 either.
 
GTLiebs said:
I'd doubt it only because we are the first good team UNC plays in their schedule. The ones before aren't all necessarily cupcakes but they aren't going to be in the top 30 or 35 either.
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True, though as I pointed out there are really only two other games that are likely to be between ranked teams. It looks like it will be Iowa-Penn State though. It's @Penn State, already scheduled for 8 p.m. on ABC, both teams have an easy first 3 games, and it can easily be hyped up by the fact that Iowa upset them last year.
 
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