Crimson Red Sports

A down year by our standards.

1. Ohio St. (59)      14-1     1,475   5
2. Oregon              13-2     1,402   3
3. TCU                  12-1     1,349   6
4. Alabama            12-2     1,297   1
5. Florida St.          13-1     1,212   2
5. Michigan St.       11-2     1,212   7
7. Baylor               11-2     1,098   4
8. Georgia Tech      11-3     1,071   10
9. Georgia             10-3     925      13
10. UCLA               10-3     908      14
11. Mississippi St.   10-3     767      8
12. Arizona St.       10-3     756      15
13. Wisconsin         11-3     724      17
14. Missouri           11-3     710      16
15. Clemson          10-3     683      18
16. Boise St.          12-2     653      21
17. Mississippi         9-4      543      9
18. Kansas St.         9-4      509      11
19. Arizona            10-4     499      12
20. Southern Cal      9-4      315      24
21. Utah                 9-4      302      23
22. Auburn              8-5      216      19
23. Marshall           13-1      161      NR
24. Louisville           9-4      116      20
25. Memphis          10-3        94      NR

Lazy, late night voting by the press.  Not sure Oregon deserves no. 2 after whipping by OSU.  Bama played much better game.

I'd put TCU at No. 2 as consolation prize, Bama 3 and Oregon 4.

If you ain't #1 then everyone else is #2 and don't matter... #4 seems fair enough for me...

That's a Bama perspective.   :lol:

Of course as a Bama fan, after winning three national championships, it hardly matters between 2 and 4.  That's why I'd be willing to put TCU as No. 2, as the best team that didn't get an invite.

The champion is decided on the field, everything else is just opinion.

My opinion is that Oregon is overrated every year.  They're flashy, but never seem to be able to play real football.  And by that I mean line of scrimmage, between the trenches, smash mouth football.  OSU showed that last night, LSU trounced them in 2011, heck they couldn't even score against Auburn's defense. 

So my opinion is that they don't deserve No. 2, as the best ranking they may ever get, but my opinion hardly matters.

Gosh, we win 12 games, beat Auburn, win the SEC, & lose to Ohio State by 7 points due to turnovers & it's a "down year?" Wow. I feel bad for Coach Saban if everyone thinks that. All he has to do is win the National Championship EVERY SINGLE YEAR, then he won't have a "down" year.



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Agreed. The Tide was much better against OSU than Oregon.

My top 5:

1. OSU
2. Bama
3. Oregon
4. TCU
5. FSU

TCU finished strong but I am not impressed with their win over Ole Miss with all their injuries and Bad Bo at QB.

BINGO! TCU & the Big 12 have to stop whining & play a better schedule & have a championship game.

Hey, Bama fans have high expectations. Don't blame me.  :dunno:

I do not consider this a down year. We lost a fluke game to Ole Miss but finished the regular season 11-1, SEC West Champs and ranked # 1. We go to the SEC Championship Game and steam roll Missouri to win the SEC. We get selected the number one seed in the first four team CFP. We ran into a buzz saw in Ohio State. They were playing very well at the end of the season. There is no shame in losing a very good team when we did not play our best.

I enjoyed this season and watching this team play very much. It was a great year and I can not wait until next year to start our run to the playoff again.

TCU dodged a bullet getting to play Ole Miss instead of getting Ohio State in the first or second round of the playoff. Do I feel sorry for TCU missing the playoff? Not one bit! Ohio State and the other three teams deserved to be there.

Getting away from Bama talk for a moment, does it seem to anyone else that the barn is ranked awfully high for a team that finished 8-5?  :dunno:

I give them credit. They milked the Kansas State win and that freak Ole Miss fumble on the goal line for all they could. They did not have any other good wins.

I am placing total blame on you. Your comments have already been forwarded to the AD's office.



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If you had told me before the season that we'd loose a couple of games and end up ranked #4, I'd have thought you were being quite optimistic.  So I too am pleased where we ended up even though I also think we were pretty close to winning it all.

I'm with pmull --- this was a fun team to watch and I loved their heart.