Coaches poll is out (Bama 12)

[colbysullivan]

http://www.saturdaydownsouth.com/rankings/coaches/2015-week-4-coaches-poll/

 

[WMack4Bama]

Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

WOW!

1 Ohio St (61)
2 TCU
3 Mich St (3)
4 Baylor
5 Ole Miss
6 UGA
7 FSU
8 Notre Dame
9 LSU
10 Clemson
11 UCLA
12 Bama
13 Oregon
14 OU
15 A&M
16 Arizona
17 Utah
18 USC
19 NW
20 GT
21 Wisconsin
22 OKST
23 Missouri
24 Stanford
25 Auburn

 

[Redwood Forrest]

I think we fell too far but then we are the highest team with a loss.

 

[colbysullivan]

TCU at 2 is baffling

 

[Bama Reb]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

Being at #12 this point in the season is nothing to worry about.
Now, the pressure of being #2 is off. We have plenty of time to correct our mistakes and improve our game plan and game play. The wins will come, and with them we'll once again rise in the polls.
But it's time to buckle down and get to work..

 

[81usaf92]

Beat UGA in two weeks and we move back up

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Beat UGA in two weeks and we move back up

That's it!


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[KentuckianaBFan]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

OSU at #1 with the game that they played? SMH

 

[KrAzY3]

I think we fell too far but then we are the highest team with a loss.

Yeah I wasn't expecting Alabama to fall this far. I now have a long list of teams to cheer against. But, Ohio State was in a similar situation last year and it turned out just fine for them.

Alabama can take two teams in front of them out, Clemson and Notre Dame have a game upcoming, Baylor and TCU will play each other, as will Michigan St. and Ohio St. So that puts them at 7th hypothetically if they win out, it's not an easy path but if Alabama handles business the rest should sort itself out

OSU at #1 with the game that they played? SMH

This is why low SoS is a huge advantage. Alabama players a far, far better team, only loses by 6 and they fall from 2 to 12. Ohio State plays a vastly inferior team, only wins by 7, and they are still #1. It's better to schedule cupcakes...

 

[WMack4Bama]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

OSU at #1 with the game that they played? SMH

We would have still been two had we found a way to somehow win

 

[TideFan in AU]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

Being at #12 this point in the season is nothing to worry about.
Now, the pressure of being #2 is off. We have plenty of time to correct our mistakes and improve our game plan and game play. The wins will come, and with them we'll once again rise in the polls.
But it's time to buckle down and get to work..

Agreed! Meaningless at this point.

 

[Matt0424]

I'm fine with it. I don't see a team that can go undefeated in College football.

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[KentuckianaBFan]

Beat UGA in two weeks and we move back up

Yes, but the team needs to win next week first...if not, they'll be putting up another billboard on the road to ULM, among other things...

 

[KentuckianaBFan]

Yeah I wasn't expecting Alabama to fall this far. I now have a long list of teams to cheer against. But, Ohio State was in a similar situation last year and it turned out just fine for them.

Alabama can take two teams in front of them out, Clemson and Notre Dame have a game upcoming, Baylor and TCU will play each other, as will Michigan St. and Ohio St. So that puts them at 7th hypothetically if they win out, it's not an easy path but if Alabama handles business the rest should sort itself out

This is why low SoS is a huge advantage. Alabama players a far, far better team, only loses by 6 and they fall from 2 to 12. Ohio State plays a vastly inferior team, only wins by 7, and they are still #1. It's better to schedule cupcakes...

And we need OM to only lose to two SECw teams whose only loss is to us...

 

[Catfish]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

OSU at #1 with the game that they played? SMH

Who would you put above them. With the exception of Mich St., everybody has looked at least a little bad at some point this year.

 

[RammerJammer14]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

Is this the first time we have dropped out of the op 10 in the regular season since 2011?

 

[KrAzY3]

And we need OM to only lose to two SECw teams whose only loss is to us...

That's not necessarily the case, it certainly wasn't last year.

I don't know how this will play out, and some have argued that they would keep two SEC teams out, but last year things ended up looking like two SEC teams could have made it in if Ole Miss won out. Remember, Ohio State played a fairly soft schedule and still lost to VT, and both Big 12 teams has soft schedules and no conference championship game either.

I even made a post after the lost last year detailing how I felt Alabama winning out would mean they got in. But... there is no denying that the SEC has lost a little luster (I insist on holding the signing limit partially responsible), so yes it would be better of Ole Miss loses twice.

Let's take a scenario though in which Ohio State wins out and Ole Miss wins out. What then has to happen? Well, last year the ACC team only got in because they were undefeated, so a one loss ACC team would likely drop below Alabama. Notre Dame just needs to lose one game though. They can't win a conference, so they'd likely sink below Alabama if they lose a game. In terms of the Big 12, it's the same thing, just need to lose one. The only conference which I think you can guarantee a spot ahead of Alabama with one loss, is likely the Pac-12.

I'm not even counting conference championship games though. For instance if Ole Miss goes to a SEC championship game undefeated and loses, there's a really good chance Alabama jumps them. Same goes for almost any team that loses that game, and chances are it won't all be undefeated teams facing each other or even just one loss teams.

We can run through all these scenarios, but the simplest terms tend back towards what I said about Alabama being 7th inevitably due to matchups. Simply put, if 3 out of those 7 teams suffer a loss at some point (fairly likely) Alabama can probably work their way into the playoff no matter who it is that wins or loses.

 

[JBama_in_PCOLA]

Re: Week 4 Coach's Poll: Bama at #12

Is this the first time we have dropped out of the op 10 in the regular season since 2011?

Yep, sad. I kinda expected the fall though. They are trying to make sure we won't make the playoff.


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[81usaf92]

And we need OM to only lose to two SECw teams whose only loss is to us...

Unless aTm and some other team catches them I don't see lightning striking twice. The West is a three team league IMO. Its aTm,Miss, and us or LSU. Im not buying LSU just yet. They are a one trick pony that destroyed a vastly overrated team. LF is great but unless they pass on us we match up very well against them. Arkansas and MSU are not what they were last year so there goes that. The best opportunity for Ole Miss to lose outside of those parameters is Florida. I would not go to the bank on that one because Florida has their own problems

 

[KentuckianaBFan]

That's not necessarily the case, it certainly wasn't last year.

I don't know how this will play out, and some have argued that they would keep two SEC teams out, but last year things ended up looking like two SEC teams could have made it in if Ole Miss won out. Remember, Ohio State played a fairly soft schedule and still lost to VT, and both Big 12 teams has soft schedules and no conference championship game either.

I even made a post after the lost last year detailing how I felt Alabama winning out would mean they got in. But... there is no denying that the SEC has lost a little luster (I insist on holding the signing limit partially responsible), so yes it would be better of Ole Miss loses twice.

Let's take a scenario though in which Ohio State wins out and Ole Miss wins out. What then has to happen? Well, last year the ACC team only got in because they were undefeated, so a one loss ACC team would likely drop below Alabama. Notre Dame just needs to lose one game though. They can't win a conference, so they'd likely sink below Alabama if they lose a game. In terms of the Big 12, it's the same thing, just need to lose one. The only conference which I think you can guarantee a spot ahead of Alabama with one loss, is likely the Pac-12.

I'm not even counting conference championship games though. For instance if Ole Miss goes to a SEC championship game undefeated and loses, there's a really good chance Alabama jumps them. Same goes for almost any team that loses that game, and chances are it won't all be undefeated teams facing each other or even just one loss teams.

We can run through all these scenarios, but the simplest terms tend back towards what I said about Alabama being 7th inevitably due to matchups. Simply put, if 3 out of those 7 teams suffer a loss at some point (fairly likely) Alabama can probably work their way into the playoff no matter who it is that wins or loses.

You do think that the Committee would put a one loss Alabama in the play-off (as a second SEC team) ahead of a one loss ACC conference champion? Not flaming, just not sure that the Committee would do that...