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Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 2: Georgia football moves up after big shakeup in top 10

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Coaches Poll Top 25 rankings for Week 2: Georgia football moves up after big shakeup in top 10

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osmosiphobe

It's interesting that TX dropped to 6 while AL dropped to 20. Yes, TX's loss was to the now #1 team, and AL's was to a previously unranked one, but when you consider that MIA beat ND (who is ranked) and only moved up to #7, TX staying ahead of them seems… stilted? I know, I know, it's early in the season, and that's always a mess, but still…

mitch_earl

@osmosiphobe

Texas wasn't going to drop very far over losing by 1 score to the defending national champs on the road. Especially if you watched the game and saw how Texas lost due to bad coaching and not talent problems or being outplayed.
Alabama, by contrast, has serious problems dating back to their 24-3 November meltdown against 6-7 Oklahoma. Sure, they "bounced back" to beat 5-7 Auburn at home but afterwords lost to a Michigan team that was 5-5 at one point and then FSU. Bama is 1-3 in their last 4 games, and 1-5 in their last 6 away from Tuscaloosa.Media members and former players are publicly calling out bad coaching plus lack of effort from players (also coaching). DeBoer will be fired as soon as Bama can get a replacement. Lane Kiffin was savvy enough to not be the guy to immediately follow Saban but now that the decks have been cleared for him, expect him to be their new coach by Thanksgiving.
As for Miami vs ND …. with the exception of a brief era at the turn of the century when Miami and USC combined for 3 titles and had the talent to win 5, modern college football has been dominated by the big state schools for decades. There are reasons for this that I won't get into, but the national media has dipped into this from time to time for both football and basketball, though the causes for the private school declines in those sports are very different. While USC will get preferential treatment when they're good because of the Los Angeles media market - though now that they are in a conference that actually takes football seriously who knows when they'll be good again - the private schools are justifiably going to be treated as the bridesmaids that they are until they prove otherwise.

87dawg

I disagree, texas looked bad. So did ohio state. They were trying to "out-bad" each other. It wasn't all coaching, there were bad players of that field. Or, I should say, players playing bad. I'm not really bothered that they did only fall to 6 because I expect it to be worse as the season goes on. I expect the same of osu.

alabama was way over-hyped but falling that far is a shock. I say they deserved that at the start of the season so it is properly adjusting but yeah, that is a heck of a drop.

VenomGA

it's all good. The rankings will start working itself out as teams have to play real opponents.

UGADad20

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/800999#Comment_800999

I agreed w/everything you said until you said "DeBoer will be fired as soon as Bama can get a replacement. " I am reading that DeBoer has a $70M buyout and the AL program is not as flush with money for NIL and buyouts as some would believe. That would be a problem should AL fire DeBoar some time this year.

Alabama has recruited very well since DeBoar got there. I wonder how AL's recruiting will shake out this year should he be fired OR should he stay and AL finish with 5 loses.

As for the polls they mean nothing after week 1. Actually less than nothing when you consider 3 top 10 teams lost in week 1.

TX and OSU both looked pretty good to me. I thought the officiating was better than expected week 1. Across the board I though play calling was really bad in quite a few of the games I saw. Bad.

If I never hear (word for word from UGA game announcer) again, "hand off to Cash Jones up the middle" , I am okay with that.