Rank the best 4-2 SEC Team

They lose two games in a row, what do you expect? I think they're lucky to be as high as they are.

 

Yeah, well USC lost to 41-point underdogs at home and only went from 2 to 7. The polls are a joke.

 

Well, there is a difference between having lost once and having lost twice. That might have something to do with it.

 

USC fell to 10 in the AP Top 25.

 

Not in the coaches poll.

 

I'll bet the coaches voted early and didn't wait for the late score.

 

To me it shows people still "slot" based on losses instead of voting who they think are the best teams. They vote as if all 0-loss teams are equal, all 1-loss teams are slightly worse, and all 2-loss teams a little worse than that.

By ranking LSU unanimous No. 1, then dropping Florida four spots after taking that same LSU team to the wire, it's like the AP voters are saying, "Hey, five more points and we raise you from No. 9. Without those points, we drop you to No. 13."

Is the No. 9 team supposed to beat No. 1? Is that the thinking?

 

Even folks in Starkville are laughing at that. Just shows you how stupid polls are whether you try to pick the best team or use the head-to-head results. State played as well as it could to be an Auburn team that was lost in the wilderness for a couple of weeks. Your second, real-world ranking is obviously better.

 

I guess my thought is there's a difference between who's the best team and who'll end up with the best record. Auburn still has road dates at Arkansas, LSU and Georgia and a home game against Alabama. I think Auburn's better than all the teams on that list other than Florida, but I don't know that Auburn will end the year with a better record than many of them. Saturday's game at Arkansas will tell a lot.

I have no idea what to make of Georgia. I thought they were going to have a decent year, but got an up-close look at a woodshed beating yesterday afternoon.

 

Given that Georgia lost at home to Vanderbilt last year, there's not a team left on its schedule that you can assume they'll win. The Troy game is scary, coming, as it does, the week after the Cocktail Party. Definitive trap game. And Kentucky is better than they were last year, though they kind of wet the bed at South Carolina. Tech? Eh. The Jackets will find a way to lose to UGA.

 

Six consecutive losses in the East is kind of a scary stat.

 

IIRC, georgia is also 7-1 in their last 8 against the west, including blowout wins at auburn and against LSU in the SECCG.