Has the B1G ever had 3 teams in the top 5 AP? 4 in the top 7?

[TheOnePercent]

Even more impressive considering the SEC has already started conference play (some teams have played two conference games already). It all goes in cycles though....2012 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 4 - ESPN

 

[herkyattack]

Alabama, LSU, and Georgia are definitely three of the best five teams in the country. Not quite as sold on South Carolina. We will find out more about them in a couple weeks; they play Georgia, @ LSU, and @ Florida back-to-back-to-back.

 

[JonDMiller]

Not sure if that has ever happened, but as recently as 2006 the Big Ten had teams rated 1-2 going into the last week of the season, Michigan lost at OSU 41-38 and folks decided they didn't want a rematch and gamed it that way in their polls (Harris poll voters)

Five years later, an altogether different climate and people tired of the BCS, it was gamed the other way.

 

[goods10]

I'm really surprised how far USC dropped. Oh well...they will beat Oregon and be right back in the mix again. Stanford will lose to Oregon as well.

 

[CAARHawk]

I'm really surprised how far USC dropped. Oh well...they will beat Oregon and be right back in the mix again. Stanford will lose to Oregon as well.

I find it hard to believe this USC team will beat Oregon. The scholarship limits have paid their toll. That team is woefully thin. People pay a little too much attention to the playmakers and not enough to the rest of the team.

 

[TheOnePercent]

Not sure if that has ever happened, but as recently as 2006 the Big Ten had teams rated 1-2 going into the last week of the season, Michigan lost at OSU 41-38 and folks decided they didn't want a rematch and gamed it that way in their polls (Harris poll voters)

Five years later, an altogether different climate and people tired of the BCS, it was gamed the other way.

Then Michigan went on to face USC in the Rose Bowl that year. Michigan rushed for 12 yards, trailed 32-11 at one point in the 4th quarter, and a garbage TD made it a more respectable, yet embarrassing 32-18 loss.

Ohio State went on to lose 41-14 to Florida in the BCS championship game. Ohio State rushed for 47 yards.

 

[kuhntz]

Then Michigan went on to face USC in the Rose Bowl that year. Michigan rushed for 12 yards, trailed 32-11 at one point in the 4th quarter, and a garbage TD made it a more respectable, yet embarrassing 32-18 loss.

Ohio State went on to lose 41-14 to Florida in the BCS championship game. Ohio State rushed for 47 yards.

Both after having 6+ weeks off and listening to their own press. I'd still like to see that OSU team play anyone anywhere in early December of that season.

Back to the issue of the poll...those same people voted Arkansas a top 8 team also.

 

[BryceC]

Arkansas lost their QB and has as much talent as anybody. Can't blame them for underestimating the John L. Smith factor.

 

[whammer33024]

i don't care how good the qb for arkansas is, he's not a 52 point difference

 

[okeefe4prez]

Arkansas lost their QB and has as much talent as anybody. Can't blame them for underestimating the John L. Smith factor.

Arkansas fans thinking John L. Smith was a good coach are 10x more delusional than the K-State basketball fans who think they hit paydirt with Bruce Weber. Weber just got a recruit whose best other offer was Drake.

 

[okeefe4prez]

Not sure if that has ever happened, but as recently as 2006 the Big Ten had teams rated 1-2 going into the last week of the season, Michigan lost at OSU 41-38 and folks decided they didn't want a rematch and gamed it that way in their polls (Harris poll voters)

Five years later, an altogether different climate and people tired of the BCS, it was gamed the other way.

I seem to recall the Badgers sneaking around the top 5 toward the end of that year as well.

 

[Scorpio79]

I find it hard to believe this USC team will beat Oregon. The scholarship limits have paid their toll. That team is woefully thin. People pay a little too much attention to the playmakers and not enough to the rest of the team.

I agree. I don't think USC will beat le Ducks, for the exact reasons you've stated.

 

[Scorpio79]

Arkansas fans thinking John L. Smith was a good coach are 10x more delusional than the K-State basketball fans who think they hit paydirt with Bruce Weber. Weber just got a recruit whose best other offer was Drake.

To that list you can add KU fan who thinks Coach Front Butt Weis was a great hire for their pathetic FB program.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Even more impressive considering the SEC has already started conference play (some teams have played two conference games already). It all goes in cycles though....2012 NCAA College Football Polls and Rankings for Week 4 - ESPN

I don't ever remember caring. I care when Iowa is unranked when we shouldn't be, and I am scared when we are ranked when we shouldn't be.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Then Michigan went on to face USC in the Rose Bowl that year. Michigan rushed for 12 yards, trailed 32-11 at one point in the 4th quarter, and a garbage TD made it a more respectable, yet embarrassing 32-18 loss.

Ohio State went on to lose 41-14 to Florida in the BCS championship game. Ohio State rushed for 47 yards.

Michigan suffered the classic "KSU Letdown" (named after KSU got demoted to the Alamo Bowl with one loss and losing to an inferior Purdue team), while OSU lost Ted Ginn on the opening kickoff. Florida teed off on Troy Smith, et. al. with no Ted Ginn to keep them honest.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Yep, and won the Cap One Bowl to finish 12-1

 

[TheOnePercent]

Michigan suffered the classic "KSU Letdown" (named after KSU got demoted to the Alamo Bowl with one loss and losing to an inferior Purdue team), while OSU lost Ted Ginn on the opening kickoff. Florida teed off on Troy Smith, et. al. with no Ted Ginn to keep them honest.

That would be a valid argument if Michigan's "demotion" wasn't against USC in the Rose Bowl.

 

[kicker22]

The thing I like most about the SEC is Vandy almost beats South Carolina and rather than South Carolina's position taking the hit it should have and getting people to believe they were over-rated preseason, suddenly Vandy becomes another juggernaut. Georgia might earn my respect when they actually get LSU and Bama on their schedule. Florida, still not sold on, but they did show the world that Tennessee wasn't the world beater many thought they could be. All I can say is as the season progresses the majority of those teams will finish .500 in conference and everyone will continue to rave about how good they all are.

My opinion doesn't matter, but I'm not convinced that all outside of Bama and LSU any other SEC is head and shoulders above FSU, Oregon, Stanford, West Virginia, or any other solid program. To me poles at this time show nothing more than an SEC bias, that the rest of us know existed.

 

[tm3308]

Michigan suffered the classic "KSU Letdown" (named after KSU got demoted to the Alamo Bowl with one loss and losing to an inferior Purdue team), while OSU lost Ted Ginn on the opening kickoff. Florida teed off on Troy Smith, et. al. with no Ted Ginn to keep them honest.

Ted Ginn was good, but he wasn't 27 points good. Besides that, they still had Anthony Gonzalez and Beanie Wells/Antonio Pittman. Ginn wasn't the deciding factor at all. Florida was just too ******* good.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

Sure, but they probably felt they "deserved" a rematch with OSU. Going to the Rose Bowl against a Pac 10 (now 12) team from California is an away game, whereas playing OSU would have been equal footing. And LSU playing in the Sugar Bowl is almost as ludicrous, similar to when Miami plays in the Orange Bowl.

Why more people don't clamor for more "equitable" matchups in bowls is beyond me. If SEC teams routinely played bowls in Minneapolis or Chicago in December/January, they WOULD be screaming for a playoff.