Wisconsin is going to lose 8 games. Their roster is a bit rough, and their schedule is an absolute beast.
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One thing to keep in mind about DeBoer, his strength is X’s and O’s. I questioned his recruiting chops and if he could cut it with the big boys in the SEC. The classes have looked good so far but he is missing one key component. His 5 star QB from his first class is now playing at Ohio State. He didn’t get any high level transfer QB. So now he’s stuck with a guy who looked ok, but nothing special. I don’t think Ty Simpson was his first, second, or even third choice. If he isn’t fired this season, which he shouldn’t be, and he gets his guy at QB, they will do well.
Spot on.
Recruiting at this level is a big step up from recruiting to a G5 or even when he was in the PAC, and there he mostly won with inheritted kids.
Now in addition to having to recruit to bring talent in with the portal coaches have to recruit just as hard to keep the players they have, and the Bama roster is full of players that other school would gladly take.
Other programs are also smelling the smoke of a program on the downturn. Bama has been beating them soundly for the entire Sabin era, this is their chance to "get one back" and along with that they know that even without Sabin beating Bama is going to get them a lot of positive attention in the media and with their fans and boosters.
It's neve easy to follow a legend. This won't end well for DeBoer, and probably at least the 3 or 4 coaches that follow him.
He got his 5* QB in Keelon Russell. True Freshman. A lot rides on him succeeding when he replaces Simpson at some point this year. Kind of like Florida last year with Mertz and Lagway.
Wasn’t paying attention didn’t realize he was a 25 recruit. He’s gotta take the job over if he’s that dude.
Good take on Arch, IMO
Auburn rightfully gets skewered regularly for how boosters have outsized influence over the program.
But Bama had many of the same issues post-Stallings and pre-Saban. This group had to shut up and stay in the background with Saban at the helm. They will not give DeBoer any benefit of the doubt going forward.
Deboer should have stayed in Seattle. Good program with a great stadium, and a fan and donor base that wants to win. Bad move imo.
Anyway, God Bless Bill Burr.......
I think I'll track this all year. I'm interested to see how week to week results move the votes in the AP poll; especially when the SEC team beats SEC team always seems to push up their value.
| Conference | PreSeason | After Wk1 |
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| XII | ||
| Ind. | ||
| American | ||
| MWC | ||
| Sun Belt | ||
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| MAC |
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38.02%
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29.09%
[/td][td]29.70%
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14.31%
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11.00%
[/td][td]9.56%
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6.27%
[/td][td]4.98%
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0.18%
[/td][td]0.22%
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1.00%
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0.05%
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0.02%
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0.06%
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[/td]The percentages, are the percent of available poll points that went to teams from each conference.
The SEC took a small dip, LSU moved up big (+4.88 points per ballot), Bama dropped even bigger (-12.68), Texas (-4.29) also moved a lot.
Somehow South Carolina's mediocre performance against a VaTech team that got zero votes resulted in a sizable uptick (+3.10) jumping over Illinois and Arizona State; it'll be interesting to see if any other similar middling P4 wins for teams right below teams playing cupcakes has a similar effect next week. Somewhat similarly, a more impressive manner of victory for Tennessee (+2.18) over Syracuse netted a signficant gain, yet Utah (+1.22) absolutely destroying UCLA produced a more modest gain, but did get them into that key #25 spot for the lazy scoreboard watching pollsters who might not click past "Top 25" when they pull up a website.
The ACC was obviously the big upward mover, with the Miami (+6.93) win, but mostly the FSU win (+10.56) moving the needle to overcome the drop by Clemson (-4.31)
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