ESPN Releases Preseason Top 25 Rankings - Josh Pate Reaction

As a georgia fan i dont even think we should be #2. from talent standpoint yes we have a bunch of 4/5 stars but sometimes that doesn't always pan out, you also need experience and reliable QB so far we are lacking on those category.

Does ESPN give favorable rankings overall to the teams they air on their network?

Go Dawgssss 🏆🏆

And the disrespect for Mizzou continues. How you gonna put Arkansas above us. Come on now, what has Arkansas done. Back to back 10 win seasons. Then you got like Illinois who have been solid under Bielema not making the list.

13 sec schools ranked in the top 25 and as a rule the a sec team must loose 4 games to drop out of the top 25.... the sec means bussiness this year they will get 6 in the playoffs by damm...

ESPN truly is a joke. Their grasp on sports is slowly slipping and for the better.

It is the ESPN conference, might as well say it and be honest. This is where college sports is going; however, this list, and others like it, are only designed to get us talking about CFB in June. The fact we are discussing this, means they did their job.

13 in the top 25 😂😂

These idiots still haven't woken up and realized that Indiana is the real deal. Some people are just determined to learn things the hard way. SMH

Yup rank the SEC high in pre-season so when selection comes around they can claim "quality" losses because the whole conference was ranked before the season started. Just gonna use it to justify putting a 3 loss mid SEC team over say a 2 loss BYU.

Here is what Preseason FPI is made up of, according to Wikipedia: In college football, each team unit has its own prior. Four of the main inputs for each prior includes data on the last 4 seasons (with an emphasis on the previous season), the number of returning starters on the offense and defense (with the QB counting as more), a binary input on the returning coach, and the strength of the team's recruiting class (with an input for transfers). College FPI is more reliant on the priors in the model due to the regular occurrences of mismatches each week. The priors are based on the adjusted EPA so that no team dominates.

ESPN-Everyday Sec Propaganda Network

JP - PLEASE….for the love of God there is NO ‘Z’ in ClemSon.

There is a reason The SEC has the most players in the NFL. What year did another conference draft more players than the SEC. Bowl wins SEC wins the most bowl games. That's not even close.

LOL. What a joke. Alabuma won''t do crap with Kalen DeBore. And OU? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 As long as that dufus, Goober Pyle Venables is there, they're just a cosplay team.

Honestly I just think cheering for any conference is sad behavior. SEC fans just normalized it. SEC “fans” living in a world of their own incestuous circle jerk for years pumping themselves up. Hence the hate.

That said though, I think top to bottom the big ten is much closer in actual quality to the SEC and Acc than they are to the given how top heavy the big 10 is. The 4 4 2 2 1 model would have been an issue because most years the big 10 lacks 4 playoff worthy teams more than anything else.

Same old ESPN bias to SEC boring

Arkansas will be garbage. I wouldn't give them an advantage over any decent team as long as Sam Pittman is in charge

The EsecPN has swayed the collage football landscape for years

It the same old crap.

I love the Razorbacks but I just don't think at the end of the season they will be in the top 25. Mizzou will be.

.... OU

was not good.

You want a rebuttal about rankings because morons are morons bowl games. Usc gamecocks bama uga Tennessee all lost their bowl games. however they deserve all the love and you telling me ou is a top 25 team ummm 4 cupcakes opponents and won 2 sec games they deserve to be there.

It's because Aguilar is about to COOK.

I don't get the Texas hype with Arch. Dude was like a deer in the headlights when he came in vs Georgia

PENN STATE OVER OREGON???

Auburn at #14?? War Eagle and all, but 😂😂. Gimme 8 Ws (includes bowl W) and a top 30 ranking, I'll take it RIGHT NOW. If 1 of the Ws is @ ranked opp, I'll throw in 3 pt loss to Bama @jhs.

Tennessee not in the top 20!is insane. They are loaded with talent. Unbelievable smh I don't think we're top 10 but def top 20

They actually have 13 out of the top 25

Just use Phil Steele's evaluations they are usually most accurate.

Who's going to replace any SEC on their list 🤔

How is bama number 3 and how tf is miami ranked higher then Clemson 😂

Clemson at 1 is ridiculous

You’re way off on Tennessee. We going to the moon

I’m from Arkansas and the fact they have us in the top 25 tells me all I need to know about this ranking

Having Auburn top 15 is a joke, but somehow ahead of SC is just absurd

How about 13 of 25 11 of 18 is cool but we all track top 25 not top 18

Nebraska?!

Alabama couldn’t beat Michigan last year. They lose their quarterback and you think they are going to be better? Yes the better teams in the SEC lost to weaker teams in the Big 10 last year. So thinking that is going to change is a dream.

Alabama is not a top 10 team.

Utahs coming for dat big 12 azz fr fr

Of the 12 sec teams only 2 will go undefeated/1 loss. The rest will go 9-3 or 8-4😂 yet everybody will want all of them in the playoffs. Just because you start a season in the top 10 doesnt mean you deserve a playoff spot after getting bounced multiple times

Dont get me wrong i'm not saying there's not an SEC bias here but when you're doing an FPI or power ranking you don't take schedules into consideration. I'll never understand how people can look at a power ranking and say these teams have to play each other so they cant both be in the top 3 or 5 or whatever, it's a power ranking not a prediction on the final rankings at the end of the year.

How come everything “late kick” has been scrubbed from the channel?

Your UGA rating is predictable ... bs

News: GA Tech will beat Miami

This list is exactly why preseason rankings should go away.

ESPN rankings? Lemme guess, the top 16 spots are SEC teams!

The other conferences all recruit from the same places as the SEC. The coaches in every other conference are interchangeable with the SEC (see Mike Leach, Lane Kiffin, Les Miles). Teams like Texas, and Texas A&M, beat the best teams in the SEC, their 1st year in the conference (they were basically still Big 12 teams), but The SEC are “the big boys”, or “the best in the land”. Stupid!

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