#67??? OUCH!
- Thread starter CBlackwellRN
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Sorry for the broken URL. Let's try that again:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...e-football-countdown-no-67-ucf-2015-post.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...e-football-countdown-no-67-ucf-2015-post.html
Yeah.., I saw this and was going to write about it. It's the lowest that I've seen UCF ranked. However, they have been wrong before. We were like 41 or 44 the year we won the Fiesta Bowl. Honestly, I think that predicting the type of season that UCF will have in 2015 is probably as difficult as any team in the country. Too many new players and variables. #67 is a safe number. It just annoys me that the Gators are always picked so high in everyone's preseason polls. They should make the Sentinel's list any day now. They have to be at least as much of an unpredictable team as UCF in 2015.
Not regressing, just young. Talent level is as good or better than it ever has been. Hopefully they grow up quickly.
This does not surprise me. Preseason polls are more about popularity contests. Who is the flavor of the month? For example Memphis has one decent season but was on par with UCF who had an ok season will be placed somewhere in the upper 40s lower fifties. They are the current darlings of the press for the AAC.
67 is a little low, I would have pegged us at 55 or so.
67 is a little low, I would have pegged us at 55 or so.
Well, we did have some coaching turnover, losing all our DB's, an important middle LB, and all our great WRs. There are tons of question marks. I'll take 67 and hopefully it is a surprising year.
Geez we finally get Fuente's system working. We are not a darling. We return a experience offense and the head coach. I will give it it a fair shake for the defense gelling but the defense isn't that new. Those guys have gotten major reps last year. No need to be smirk about us.
It was not meant as a jab although I can see where you might take it as one. It is just that you are currently the media darlings of the AAC. You had a good, not great season, but you appear to be on the turnaround from the dreadful era of football. There is almost nothing in your 2014 results and your returning team that should set you far apart from anyone else in the league. Yet there is the appearance of momentum that carries you to the forefront. This is not about Memphis, it is about the media and their pre-season perceptions. You could plug any number of teams in this equation.
Polls matter very little for G5 schools. The only thing that actually affects G5 schools is where the worst P5 conference champ ends up because that could actually get a second G5 team into a BCS game.
We have one thing to play for each year and that is all that matters: The Conference title. You win that you've probably had to rack up 10+ wins and have a good chance at getting the BCS spot. I've said this several times on here. No G5 school is going to crack the new playoff unless they go undefeated for two seasons in a row (maybe one loss over two seasons), which is virtually impossible. One year of no or one loss and you raise some eyebrows but you'd have to repeat the feat the next year and almost certainly have to be undefeated and beat two or more P5 schools to even get considered for the playoff. Sure, we can play in and win a BCS game (like we did and like Boise State did last year) but the G5 gets one shot a year, basically. We get the scraps of Longshanks table as a means of appeasement. Getting more than one school into a BCS game is going to be a very, very rare event, if it ever happens. So the polls don't really matter to us.
C-USA over the American? da*slant sucks
conference rankings:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...otball-conference-rankings-20150623-post.html
conference rankings:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...otball-conference-rankings-20150623-post.html
