Phil Steele's Top 40 for 2013
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I guess the answer to the question of "how long do the effects of "The Process" linger after Coach Saban leaves?" is -- 9 years
Nice to see LSU settling back to where they belong
I like Phil's picks but I don't agree with this. Florida & LSU are top 10 teams. I think the Louisville game will motivate the Gators & LSU has not slipped at all in recruiting.
I hope they have OSU #1 at the start.
I hope they have OSU #1 at the start.
I might give you Florida. Not LSU. They lost too much talent to the draft. Gonna be a work in process on their D.
By the same token Florida will most likely have an inept offense again. They lost their top rb and their only real receiver in reid. Go look at their receiving stats from last year it is scary. Florida also lost several great players on d. They are the team I think falls back to earth next year.
Lsu has a very hard schedule playing uf and uga out of the east plus tcu to open. I think this ranking is pretty accurate for them. If mett gets it together and hill returns (both big ifs) they could have a very solid offense. I give them the benefit of the doubt on d like I do with bama until I see otherwise.
Steele is very good at prognosticating, I find him to be the best by far.
I see someone tweeted a picture of Phil's top 15 in the magazine. He has us #1. I'm shocked at his #4, though.
VT at #12 ?? surprisng. the barners were swearing up and down that Bama will be facing a non rank VT come game time. they are convincing themselves that we have an easy schedule. if both TAMU and VT are in the Top 15 when Bama plays them, it will be easily the toughest sled of games in the first 3 weeks of CFB.
Thats the only tough part of our schedule, actually.
our schedule is fairly easy, and very managable.
After we play those two at the start, we play Colorado St., Ole Miss, Georgia State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee...
...5 of which are home games.
Thats about as easy a stretch as we could expect playing in the SEC.
We finish with LSU, Miss St., Chatanooga and Auburn...
...Auburn and Miss St on the road.
I have to say, that I find that schedule to not be overly taxing. If the team maintains thier focus, the SEC championship game could prove to be our biggest test.
I dont make excuses for a very favorable schedule, I just smile.
I think that sounds about right...
Les has escaped a lot of close calls. He's nearly lost control a few times, and I actually expected things to go a little worse last year, based on the fallout from how things went after the BCSCG game. However, they did go from the BCSCG game, to three losses. That isn't key though, we know Alabama did the same thing in 2010. The key is that they really limped through the last few games.
They gave up 35 points to Ole Miss at home, and only won by 6. They only mustered 20 points against Arkansas, and won by 7. They followed that up by a loss to Clemson. That doesn't look like a team on the right track. The key though is all the defections, they had so many players leave early that they'll actually return the least amount of starters of any team in the SEC. Mind you, that's only one less than Alabama returns, but Alabama has been out-recruiting them and out-coaching them for a little while now.
I think we have areas of concern in regards to Alabama. They have some early tests that should tell us a lot. However, LSU has those concerns, and more... and a lot less reasons to believe they can overcome them. I'd argue it is more likely that Alabama wins a NC, than LSU is a top ten team this year.
He gives a lot (probably too much) of weight to returning starters. No team in 1A returns more starters than does Texas. They are one of five that return 19. #6 is absurd.I see someone tweeted a picture of Phil's top 15 in the magazine. He has us #1. I'm shocked at his #4, though.
I see someone tweeted a picture of Phil's top 15 in the magazine. He has us #1. I'm shocked at his #4, though.
Texas is NOT a top 10 team and maybe not even top 20, much less # 4. No way that USC is a top 10 team either and I'm equally surprised that he has VT at #12.Texas is NOT a top 10 team and maybe not even top 20, much less # 4. No way that USC is a top 10 team either and I'm equally surprised that he has VT at #12.
His system is interesting in that he has an objective rating system but that sometimes causes him problems like having FSU going all the way last year when we all know that FSU will lose games just because they do, then again he saw Au in 2010 long before anyone else. That being said He isnt the only guy with Texas doing well this year is seems to be a pretty popular pick.
Sorry that everything got spelled out twice. Don't know what happened and I tried editing but it wouldn't let me.
USCw #6?? They just keep shoveling the love on them. I don't get it. Scholarship reductions should be starting to effect them now.
Tejas is a shell of its former self. I don't see Mack having great success anytime soon.
VT will likely not even be ranked at the end of the year IMO.
My top 10 would be 1. Bama, 2. OSU, 3. Oregon, 4. South Carolina, 5. Louisville, 6. Clemson, 7. Stanford, 8. Okie State, 9. FSU, 10. TAMU
That's a better Top 10 than Phil Steele's. Putting VT before TAM: that's just wrong.
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